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Comment Application resources are organised in broad functional groups such as marketing, manufacturing and R&D. That's the stark choice CIOs have struggled with for years. But McKinsey's Diogo Rau has an alternative approach.
[09 Apr 2008]
Comment In it he outlined how Apple was improving its manufacturing process to become more environmentally friendly. Few would dispute that Apple has had a remarkable year. But Seb Janacek goes further. He predicts that in 10 years people will look back at...
[21 Dec 2007]
Comment The combination of these four countries in a theoretical trading bloc would offer expertise in manufacturing and services, along with valuable natural resources such as oil and gas. It actually stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China and was...
[18 Dec 2007]
Comment The way manufacturing has become industrialised provides a number of parallels with today's IT industry. For example, the manufacturing of cars has evolved so that suppliers' specialisations are maximised.
[05 Dec 2007]
Comment A lot of prominence was given to claims of poor quality in Chinese manufacturing. That surely has to be, like the Mattel case, at least as much a matter of the specification of quality controls as an issue about manufacturing.
[25 Oct 2007]
AS Analysis Coby continues to adhere to his mantra of there being "no IT projects, only business projects" and is currently overseeing the tech infrastructure behind the new Terminal 5 at London's Heathrow Airport and introducing lean manufacturing principles...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment In 1928, Ford Motor Company built a massive manufacturing facility on the shores of the River Rouge in Dearborn, Michigan. A tougher regulatory environment means banks are playing it safe with their IT.
[02 Oct 2007]
Comment Fashion and retailing is one of the vertical sectors Lawson is strong in and the industry's supply chain is becoming increasingly extended by globalisation, and, not surprisingly, China is a hotspot for clothes manufacturing.
[01 Oct 2007]
Comment As manufacturing declines, data centres have taken up the slack and become the forges of the information age. Organisations have one of two options: move the data centre to an area, such as Middlesbrough or Clydeside that once had a considerable...
[21 Sep 2007]
Comment The difference of £180 seems a bit steep for a TV tuner and remote at a combined manufacturing cost of less than £10! The internet has put the audience in control while traditional media is still trying to call the shots.
[31 Aug 2007]
Comment An open letter from Jobs entitled 'A Greener Apple' set out the company's green agenda on manufacturing and recycling. Publicity stunts aside, there's been considerable debate about the veracity of Greenpeace's data on Apple's allegedly poor...
[23 Aug 2007]
Comment Along with using toxic chemicals, the manufacturing process for one PC requires around two tonnes of raw materials and generates around 25 tonnes of CO2. Retailer PC World, for instance, now offers a green PC - featuring a recycled aluminium case...
[13 Aug 2007]
Comment Intel has committed to building Classmates in Brazil, while OLPC has yet to develop any plans for manufacturing outside Taiwan. Hardware projects - OLPC and Intel's Classmate - are liable to get tangled in arguments about the location of...
[17 Jul 2007]
CIO Profile That experience covers a range of disciplines and industries including manufacturing, supply chain, commercial, internet and retail. Jon Granville is a CIO with extensive business and IT experience gained from a career ranging from roles in major...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Rundle has a wide range of experience in people management, engineering and logistics across the manufacturing, distribution and retail sectors and he has held a number of board-level and director positions during his career at Unigate, Wincanton...
[06 Jun 2007]
CIO Profile Taylor started his varied IT career at British Airways in 1976 and then spent a decade at Mars during the 1980s - including a year in the US - where he drove materials resource planning-enabled change at the company's US manufacturing plants.
[06 Jun 2007]
Comment Not only do the products consume precious metals and other resources but the manufacturing processes are energy-intensive and systems or components are rarely sourced locally as cheaper alternatives are often found on the other side of the planet.
[24 May 2007]
Leader And as workforces grow ever more dispersed, physical media is increasingly going digital - software is now a service, documents are stored on servers rather than in paper form and so on - meaning less manufacturing of CDs, paper and other hard...
[04 May 2007]
Comment The answer is that a product would need to be manufactured on an extremely small scale for it to not be worth considering an offshore manufacturing plant. Now, as we are used to this global manufacturing scenario, our attention turns to services.
[02 May 2007]
Comment And the parts that make up our cars are timed to arrive in the factory on the day of assembly, minimising excess inventory that has to be stored and managed, keeping manufacturing costs as low as possible.
[04 Apr 2007]
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