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Highlights from Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference 2015

AIMMS

Guy Kawasaki, marketing guru and entrepreneur, offered a compelling keynote on innovation, drawing on examples from Apple, Google and Amazon among others. As stated in his presentation , “most companies define themselves in terms of what they already do, not the benefits they provide.” Don’t be afraid to roll the dice.

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Robot Picking just like the real thing

Logistics Business Magazine

RightHand Robotics , based just outside Boston and founded in 2015, manufacture the most important part of the robotic picking arm – the ‘hand’. This frees-up staff to add a personal touch to customer order engagement, for example by writing a gift note for the package.” This product is called ‘RightPick’.

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Getting Up to Speed on Business Analytics at INFORMS

AIMMS

At a time when Big Data and Analytics have the spotlight but still seem to be developing, it was inspiring to hear real examples of using analytics to drive cost savings, operational efficiencies and real tangible business value. For example, the 2014 Edelman winner was the Kid Risk Team at the U.S. Edelman gala.

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KataCon People: Skip Steward

The Lean Thinker

While many conferences are an audience listening to keynote presentations, KataCon is more of an annual get-together of a community. For example – I think it was Beth last year that said “We don’t experiment toward the target condition, we experiment against obstacles.” Copyright © 2015, Mark Rosenthal.

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The Cancer of Fear

The Lean Thinker

All of this is a unconscious but focused effort to present the illusion that things are progressing according to plan. Back in 2015 Liz Ryan wrote a piece in Forbes online called The Five Characteristics of Fear Based Leaders. Problems are being discussed in hallways, in side conversations, but not written down. Asking for help?

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Building Moats in AI: Buy vs. Build (AI Popup #1)

Freightos

Catapult was acquired in 2015 by Warburg Pincus. An example of such a case is sentiment analysis, or rather detecting opinion present in text (good, neutral, bad). This is issue #1 of our AI Popup Newsletter Series. Subscribe to receive future updates here. It seems that there is an AI startup born every week.

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STILL Celebrates 100th Birthday with More Innovation

Logistics Business Magazine

Only a few years after being founded as a repair workshop for electric motors, STILL presented their own products, such as the “Matador light station”, at the Leipzig Fair in 1924. Beginnings to breakthrough. The development and repair of electric motors, generators and transformers remained the core business for many years.