Insights

Recommended articles from the world of Production, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and Sustainable (Digital) Transformation: insights, ideas and perspectives.

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How Process Mining contributes to a robust supply chain

How Process Mining contributes to a robust supply chain

Process mining for a robust supply chain – better overview, better insights and information for better internal and external collaboration.
Axisto - How to emerge from a recession as a winner

7 actions to accelerate your profitability during and straight after a recession

In this article we formulate 7 actions to accelerate your profitability during and straight after a recession.
Axisto - Artificial Intelligence

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

This article is an introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence and explores the different sub-specialties.
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Introduction to machine learning

  WHAT IS MACHINE LEARNING? This article covers the introduction to machine learning and the directly related concepts. Machine learning is the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. It is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) and comput…
Axisto - AIMA

ACCELERATE YOUR OPERATIONS PERFORMANCE WITH THE AXISTO INDUSTRY 4.0 MATURITY ASSESSMENT (AIMA)

AIMA enables manufacturing companies to understand where they stand and to design an effective Industry 4.0 implementation roadmap.
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A Quick Guide to Intelligent Automation

Intelligent Automation (IA) for better business outcomes through streamlining and scaling decision making across businesses.
Axisto - Change Insider

PREDICTABLE AND RELIABLE CHANGE

The Change Insider® provides fact-based guidance for differentiated interventions to successfully deliver your change initiative.
Zero-based Budgeting for cost reduction and growth.

Zero-based budgeting – make strategy happen

Zero-based budgeting reconfigures your cost structure, releases investment funds, accelerates growth and creates value. Make strategy happen.
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More Cash – Lower Inventory – Better Service

Disciplined working capital management drives good operational and financial performance. Inventory optimisation poses the biggest challenge.

Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’

The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithms
Zero-based Budgeting for cost reduction and growth.

Cut Costs and Grow Fast

Smart cost cutting will prune a company back to health and free up the cash to provide oxygen for growth drivers.
Why Industry 4.0 implementations get stuck

Many Industry 4.0 implementations get stuck. Find out how to prevent this.

In first instance, do not focus too much on just the technical side of the transformation. Instead, concentrate on skilful change management.
How come winners accelerate profitability during and after a recession.

Winners accelerate their profitability during and after a recession. What do they do differently?

Winning companies accelerate their profitability during and after a recession, These are the 7 defining actions that enable it.
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How to create value in Industrials?

This paper will give you an insight into how you can create value in Industrials. Margin improvement is key.
Organisational alignment

Organisational alignment – why and how?

Alignment in the organization is important to be able to achieve goals at speed and to be able to respond quickly to changing circumstances.

Isn’t there an opportunity in every challenge? – Part 6 – RPA

Gartner sees RPA as a key element of a digital operating model. RPA delivers operational improvements and is a gateway to AI.

Isn’t there an opportunity in every challenge? – Part 5 – Performance Management Systems

An effective Performance Management System is a core element of a high-performing company. Unfortunately, it is often not in order.

Isn’t there an opportunity in every challenge? – Part 4 – Process Mining

Process Mining is a data-driven analysis technique to analyse and monitor business processes objectively.

Isn’t there an opportunity in every challenge? – Part 3 – Strategy Deployment.

Strategy Deployment is an effective method to develop organisational alignment and to develop ownership of objectives.

Isn’t there an opportunity in every challenge? – Part 2 – Zero-based Alignment.

Zero-based Alignment changes your game. Zero-based Alignment ensures that every Euro spent supports your vision and ambition.

Isn’t there an opportunity in every challenge? – Part 1 – Successfully implementing change.

Implementing change is difficult; only 30% of the initiatives are successful. With our Change Insider you increase this to 95%.