Blocking Productivity
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.…
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Informed Advantage • Part B
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…
Informed Advantage • Part A
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…
The ATC Program
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…
Productivity, Productivity, Productivity
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…
Why an ATC? (Advanced Technology Center)
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.…
Price prediction and beyond
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…
A unique approach to Supply Chain
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,…
Using Predictive Modelling to conquer uncertainties
In my last blog, Manufacturing Sector- The growth engine of the economy, I touched upon the complex nature of business stemming from globalization and international markets. In today’s unpredictable times, the need for understanding not only the trend of the…
A Punch to the Face
While reporting on President Trump’s change in strategy (as evidenced by the April 6, 2017 missile attack on a Syrian airfield), CNN quoted Iron Man Mike Tyson as saying, “Everyone has a strategy until they’re punched in the face.” This…