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Technology leads, innovation exploitation is lagging

Paul Hobcraft

I recall reading that up to now, each digital technology change was a separate era of change, to absorb and adapt towards, yet today we are facing something seemingly different, a collision, a whole mash-up of disparate technologies and systems, that seem to be heading for such an explosion of change, a post-digital transformation.

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Smart Factory 101 A Data, AI, Cloud and Workforce Revolution in the Making

Acuvate

But before that, let’s understand where the manufacturing world is with Smart Factory today and where this technological intervention is headed. In addition, the increased efficiency of these technologies has made it possible to keep up with rising consumer demands and shorten production timelines.

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Smart Factory 101 A Data, AI, Cloud and Workforce Revolution in the Making

Acuvate

But before that, let’s understand where the manufacturing world is with Smart Factory today and where this technological intervention is headed. In addition, the increased efficiency of these technologies has made it possible to keep up with rising consumer demands and shorten production timelines.

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Barriers to innovation, the cause and effect.

Paul Hobcraft

Applying technology across a connected platform environment begins to change that. The need to respond to unexpected business attacks, changing competitive positions, and the inability to ramp up fast enough to take advantage of consumers’ rising expectations risks a real-time-to-market issue. Enabling technology and processes.

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Top 10 CPG Industry Trends For 2020

Acuvate

As activist investors embark upon a new wave of consolidation, and government trade regulations get more stringent, CPG companies are driven to reinvent themselves. Developments in technology paved the way for innovations in CPG industry and multiple channels to interact with and engage consumers. Using Big Data and Advanced Analytics.

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The backdrop of digital transformation and its consequences

Paul Hobcraft

Digital transformation is doubly difficult, it forces us to work with mostly emerging, constantly evolving technologies, and then apply these in an integrated way into an existing business. Beyond making a series of incremental improvements to become cloud-ready, we are supposed to reflect social, mobile and digital technologies.

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Choosing your direction of travel

Paul Hobcraft

For instance, earlier engagement with governments, with research institutes, publishing new findings in more open ways, less restrictive on a sharing data all might allow the communities to search for a different model of discovery to commercialization. Digital connections and technology platforms.