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Future of Manufacturing: Servitization (adding value through Services)

Future of Manufacturing: Servitization (adding value through Services)
Manufacturing > Services ‘There is no such thing as service industries. There are only industries whose service components are greater or less than those of other industries. Everybody is in services’, Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review, 1972 Traditionally, many manufacturers see themselves as ‘widget producers’, with profits coming from either selling large quantities or fewer,…
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The Future of Work – Part 2: Future Skills, AI and Robotics

The Future of Work – Part 2: Future Skills, AI and Robotics
[caption id="attachment_3160" align="alignleft" width="300"] "Baxter and Coworker" - via theverge.com[/caption] Before exploring the skills we’ll need in the next 10-20 years, it’s helpful to look at a few jobs that didn’t even exist just a decade ago in 2006.  We didn’t have ‘Social Media Managers’ as the major platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – either…
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The Future of Work – Part 1: Employee to Free Agent

The Future of Work – Part 1: Employee to Free Agent
The Future of Work is a multi-faceted subject. One that’s ripe for multiple books, not just a few short articles. I’d like to tackle the topic here from just a couple of angles. First, the ways in which people are working. Second, the ways in which automation and robotics will augment and sometimes replace people…
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ATTN: Manufacturers – Time to Intensify Your Drive into Services

ATTN: Manufacturers – Time to Intensify Your Drive into Services
Servitization adds a service or solution-based offer to traditional product offering. It can be lucrative. But where do you start? The Manufacturer is presenting a new webinar at 10.30am on 28 September to help manufacturers get to grips with the opportunities available through servitization. The webinar presenters, James Woudhuysen (visiting Professor at London South Bank University) and Matt O’Neill (Independent Futurist), have…
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