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Continue reading →: The Connected, Intelligent, Automated Industry 4.0 Supply Chain
ASQ’s March Influential Voices Roundtable asks this question: “Investopedia defines end-to-end supply chain (or ‘digital supply chain’) as a process that refers to the practice of including and analyzing each and every point in a company’s supply chain – from sourcing and ordering raw materials to the point where the…
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Continue reading →: Imperfect Action is Better Than Perfect Inaction: What Harry Truman Can Teach Us About Loss Functions (with an intro to ggplot)One of the heuristics we use at Intelex to guide decision making is former US President Truman’s advice that “imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.” What it means is — don’t wait too long to take action, because you don’t want to miss opportunities. Good advice, right? When I…
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Continue reading →: Designing Experiences for Authentic Engagement: The Design for STEAM Canvas
As Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation efforts bear their first fruits, capabilities, business models, and the organizations that embody them are transforming. A century ago, we thought of organizations as machines to be rigidly designed and controlled. In the latter part of the 20th century, organizations were thought of as…
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Continue reading →: Object of Type Closure is Not SubsettableI started using R in 2004. I started using R religiously on the day of the annular solar eclipse in Madrid (October 3, 2005) after being inspired by David Hunter’s talk at ADASS. It took me exactly 4,889 days to figure out what this vexing error means, even though trial…
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Continue reading →: Lack of Alignment is an Organizational Disease. Here are the Symptoms.
Like a champion rowing team, your organization needs to make sure everyone is working together, engaged in synchronized work and active collaboration, and not working at cross-purposes. But like risk management, working on alignment can seem like a luxury. No one really has time to slow down and make sure…
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Continue reading →: Selecting Pages from a PDF to Make a New (Smaller) PDF
Sometimes small, simple tasks perplex me. Today’s challenge: I’m on Windows 10, and have a 53 page PDF of a journal. I need to make a NEW PDF that only contains pages 26 to 43 (my article) so I can send my article to a researcher who is requesting it.…
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Continue reading →: Make Strategic Alignment Actionable with Baldrige
It can be difficult to focus on strategy when your organization has to comply with standards and regulations. Tracking and auditing can be tedious! If you’re a medical device manufacturer, you may need to maintain ISO 13485 compliance to participate in the supply chain. At the same time, you’ve got…
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