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Everyone is happy to land a big customer. With large orders comes rapid revenue growth, enhanced credibility and increased exposure of products to potential customers and markets. However, don’t be blinded by these numerous benefits; winning big customers is always…
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 8 Last week I purchased the book Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken. It purports to contain the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. It lists the top 100 things…
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 7 Any sales person who has tried to sell a better mouse trap to an executive will have experienced the fortress that has been put in place to keep new ideas out.…
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 6B Lytica’s Freebenchmarking.com product is already progressing along the informed advantage productivity journey with pricing answers. Now we are simplifying and enhancing this product through technology and innovation initiatives while also adding…
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 6 In 1956, Robert Solow and Trevor Swan came up with a model that demonstrates how, if technology levels and innovation don’t increase, the economy will cease to grow and will remain…
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 5 When I think about supply chain priorities, I see three interlocked circles of cost, security of supply, and compliance. These are three equal priorities, whose ranking changes depending upon the needs…
How Lytica became a unique analytics company: Part 4 My first thoughts about productivity in conjunction with the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) were selfish as I needed the thousands of times productivity increase that AI would give my engineers. It…
HOW LYTICA BECAME A UNIQUE ANALYTICS COMPANY • PART 3 Where do new ideas come from? How can we know which ones will change the world? Ideas come from thoughts that seem to materialize in the mind out of nothing.…
How Lytica became a unique analytics company • Part 2 The fact that no one knew what I should be paying for a component puzzled me. Each year I would receive cost reduction targets for materials. These were dictates communicated…
How Lytica became a unique analytics company • Part 1 The origin of Lytica and our products has been covered in blogs such as The Genesis of “Bradley’s Law” and others that can be found on SCM Roundtable. Our history,…