The tools and techniques of digital transformation greatly simplify and speed up new product development. They are counterproductive and even senseless, however, if put to work supporting the ...

WASHINGTON -- In 1801, Eli Whitney disassembled ten muskets made from interchangeable parts, placed the parts in a big pile, and then reassembled ten muskets from parts picked at random, demonstrating ...

WASHINGTON -- The Army itself can be thought of as a large enterprise whose mission is fighting and winning America's wars. But within that enterprise are many sub-enterprises supporting that mission, ...

Dozens of states must grapple with budget deficits, and government faces increased pressure to improve services to citizens at lower costs. As a result, state CIOs look to replace costly, antiquated ...

In the early 1980s, technology silos, those free-standing islands of innovation in divisions such as marketing, finance and human resources, were the pride of individual functional units. But as the ...

The semiconductor industry is still in the early stages of the finFET era, but the transistor technology already is undergoing a dramatic change. The fins themselves are getting a makeover. In the ...

A former Director-General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dakuku Peterside, has urged the Federal Government to make business process re-engineering a national policy. He ...

In his book, Applied Minds: How Engineers Think, Guru Madhavan explores the mental makeup of engineers. His framework is built around a flexible intellectual toolkit called modular systems thinking.