BigDataFr recommends: Ops 4.0: Fueling the next 20 percent productivity rise with digital analytics

[…] Business is now in the midst of the most significant disruption in decades. This epochal transformation has been driven largely by technological changes—big data and advanced analytics, additive manufacturing, the Internet of Things, robotics, and artificial intelligence—collectively described as the fourth industrial revolution. Arriving at dizzying speed (see sidebar “Lewis Carroll on the pace of change”), its consequences are already evident across sectors: competition is intensifying not just within industries but also between them. Think of Apple assembling an autonomous-vehicle business or Tesla moving into power supply. And then there are the aggressive, agile start-ups, with business models that ignore conventional constraints. […]

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By Mercedes Goenaga, Philipp Radtke, Kevin Speicher, and Rafael Westinner
Source: mckinsey.com