industrial revolution
India top choice for UK outsourcing
News We are seeing a kind of Industrial Revolution sweep through the services landscape in the same way it did with manufacturing. India is now outstripping competitors worldwide for cost and service quality and is riding the crest of a revolution in... [11 Jan 2008]
The Lean Workforce
White Paper Ever since the industrial revolution supplanted individual craftsmen as the means to get products to consumers, there has been a continual quest to drive time and cost out of the production and delivery process, what one now calls the supply chain. [07 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment I didn't realise it at the time but I was part of Generation X - the new tech-savvy group who would power us through the revolution of the 1960s, 1970s and beyond. In industrial terms, almost everywhere I now find that the IT-incapable are in a... [29 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress
Comment Let's fast forward to the start of the industrial revolution before we invoke health and safety systems: no large-scale smelting of ores, no engines, no advanced tools or weapons, no wire, no mass-produced glass or anything else, and certainly no... [03 Oct 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The big picture on 'the next five billion'
Comment The West went through massive changes in the 19th century as the industrial revolution progressed, with mass migration from the rural economies to the cities. Worse, the loss to the agronomy of the country is not being offset to the level that the... [27 Apr 2007]
Selecting the Right FLASH Partner to Turn Technology Advantages Into Profits
White Paper Since FLASH memory was first introduced, the unique ability to have cost effective, non-volatile memory has spawned a revolution in consumer and industrial products. Cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDA), digital cameras, MP3 players... [09 Dec 2006]
The Luddites Are Coming!
White Paper They got their name from Englishman Ned Ludd, whose followers sabotaged textile factories at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Whether from companies seeking government protection from more nimble e-commerce competitors or political... [09 Nov 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero-sum game
Comment So far we have seen the industrial revolution spread from the UK to Europe to the US to Japan and now to China. During the past few weeks I have travelled across China and seen evidence of the decline of the old state-run industries as well as the... [18 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Smart but not corporate
Comment Almost all the students are between 24- and 28-years-old, at an MSc or MBA level and seem to have had some industrial experience. Written in my home office after some recent experiences in the US and a heavy week of meetings in the UK. [17 Mar 2006]
Connected Workforce: How Mobility Is Changing
White Paper The webcast shows how mobility will affect the biggest change in work practices since the industrial revolution. In this webcast, you will learn how mobility is fundamentally changing the face of business by allowing workers to communicate and work... [21 Feb 2006]
CIO Jury: Businesses face consumer tech revolution
News We only need to compare the 'transaction code' type of front-end systems written some years ago, with the more intuitive, web-based facilities that we now develop to realise that a consumer type revolution has affected us all - for the good. [12 Jan 2006]
Minority Report: The Apple gear I want for Christmas is...
Comment Housed in a vertical plastic case and featuring a revolutionary pointing device called a 'mouse', the Macintosh also featured a graphical user interface, with files, folders and drives represented by pictures rather than a command line, ushering... [07 Dec 2005]
Minority Report: What would Apple be without Jobs?
Comment The iPod revolution provided the company with an alternate revenue stream and a foothold in another lucrative market - online media distribution. With the iMac, Jobs and Ive ignited a revolution in personal computing as significant as the original... [07 Oct 2005]
Visions 2020: Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies
White Paper Teachers could finally produce and communicate content to a growing number of students entering an industrial revolution. Technology in education has two faces: one of transformation and one of hype. The printing press revolutionized access to... [30 Aug 2005]
Digital Government and Technological Change: The Impact on Public Employees and Quality Public Services
White Paper The level of change in the American workplace over the past 20 years has forced some to conclude that the changes are only second in scope to the changes brought about by the industrial revolution. Government workplaces across the country have... [24 Aug 2005]
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