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May 2020
Innovation is not just a matter of internal process optimization. The impact it has on the end customer is what’s important. By trying to look past the superficial observations and understand the problem at a deeper level, you can identify opportunities. The solution can then in turn be innovative. Yet in a lot of cases, the problem and the solution become one and the same. The key to finding a solution is to start with a clear view of the problem. In this article, Erica D’Acunto, Innovation Lead at ORTEC, reveals how to start.
This article is the first out of five articles as part of the series on Five Ways of Translating Data into Better Decision-Making. It is powered by Erica D’Acunto, Innovation Lead, and focuses on the topic of customers and innovation.
From the very beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, the definition of time has changed radically. In our personal lives we all experienced a complete free fall from the fast-paced lives we considered normal. While for some it seems like a cramped life in a gated community, many also experience it as a time of consciousness and reflection. In business life, the luxury of time seems to have disappeared completely. Businesses that once took one to three years in planning and executing their digital strategy, now have shown an unprecedented ability to change rapidly. In this article, we provide you a glance on what effects of the coronavirus outbreak might be permanent, and on how to turn these effects into opportunities to shape the future of your business.
As of 2019, ORTEC works in collaboration with Amref Flying Doctors, owned by Amref Health Africa. Due to our collaboration, Amref can increase their impact on African healthcare by optimizing their business processes, making their projects quantifiable and the outcome of these projects visible. As part of the collaboration, some of ORTEC’s consultants recently visited Amref Ethiopia to work on two projects: one aimed at shaping strategies used in projects, and another to improve effectiveness and efficiency of their workforce. This article is a story by one of those consultants: Lotte van Hezewijk, Analytics Consultant.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gaining an increasingly steady foothold in society. Driven by the promise that it will help maximize the value of data, more and more organizations are implementing AI in their operations. When AI becomes too complex, though, applications seem to go entirely their own way. This has led to a call for ‘Explainable AI’: a way to understand and explain the outcomes of algorithms. In practice, however, this often turns out to be more difficult than expected.
An article powered by Daan Mocking, Data Scientist.
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In times of unanticipated crises, the prerequisite for survival is knowing the risks that pose a threat to your business continuity and to respond and mitigate those risks quickly and effectively. Close on the heels of the corona virus outbreak, organizations will however be facing the next unprecedented challenge: an inevitable restructuring of the economy. Traditional modi operandi are heavily disrupted and previous metrics and assumptions have become completely irrelevant. Organizations will need to prepare for the ‘next normal’ and think about how to anticipate on future scenarios. There is no blueprint of what the next normal could entail but based on observed data and trends in early affected geographic areas, this article provides retail and ecommerce organizations food for thought that may help to sail the right course.
The disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak are first and foremost impacting human life tremendously. They’re also having a growing impact on the global economy, imminently restructuring it. Main life support systems such as healthcare, education, food and supplies are facing the undeniable challenge to respond quickly to extreme changes in demand. Organizations are urged to adopt an agile and flexible way of working. Mitigating risks to peer through the fog of uncertainty has become the new reality. In this article, we’ve identified the three main threats to the business continuity of retail and ecommerce organizations caused by the coronavirus outbreak and share mitigating measures to minimize their impact.
Read how a personal experience led to the discovery of a smart way to reduce e-commerce fulfilment costs in every step of the supply chain.
By Dick Zijlstra, Director of Value Realization and Senior Account Manager at ORTEC
It is hard to grasp what the total impact of the coronavirus outbreak will be. But already now we can state that the status quo is turned upside down. Things we took for granted seem to be not so trivial anymore. We are being challenged on our main life support systems such as healthcare, education, food and supplies. Those support systems are confronted with intense changes and high uncertainty of supply and demand.
ORTEC Shift Creation is now available to help organizations address challenges in long-term workforce planning