Raising your Digital Quotient

McKinsey has written a thoughtful piece on some of the important ideas how about bringing digital to your company. I was especially interested by the two-part approach. You may need one skill for rapid development of customer-facing ideas and a different one for legacy backroom systems that emphasize security and solid business practice.

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http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/strategy/Raising_your_Digital_Quotient?cid=Digital-eml-alt-mkq-mck-oth-1506

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New model calculates how air transport connects the world

An inte3resting model from MIT scholars, which attempts to figure out how the world’s connectivity is changing. Its strength is looking at actual tickets purchased by customers to find out how they prefer to fly.

Here’s their video.


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Article:

New model calculates how air transport connects the world | MIT News.

The article is summarized here, on MIT’s supply chain blog..

http://supplychainmit.com/2015/06/25/is-your-airport-well-connected/

 

Freight Logisticians Have Best Year Since Great Recession

This study points out that there are still many congestion issues, and they will be coming to a head in the Christmas shipping season, due to start soon.

Freight Logisticians Have Best Year Since Great Recession, However Capacity Issues Persist – Supply Chain 24/7.