The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted supply chains across the globe. This is especially true in the manufacturing industry, where supply chain managers must track and analyze the pandemic’s impact in every region that effects their business: Is it safe to bring staff into factories? Are suppliers still shipping — or even still in business?…
Organizations in all industries are seeking to be more data-driven. That’s especially true in healthcare, where providers are leveraging the enormous amount of data at their disposal with analytics to drive better patient outcomes, streamline operations and cut costs. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic became a global phenomenon, research firm Acumen Research and Consulting predicted…
The world bought into the idea of continual improvement ever since Japanese car companies embraced it in the ‘70s and ate Detroit’s lunch. But you can’t improve what you can’t measure – which is why analytics now envelops the entire enterprise, crunching every data set it can find to get a clear view of current…