Unfinished Products

Strategic Technology Management for organizations embracing Circular Economy

This article delves into the crucial role of strategic technology management activities in effectively adopting the recycling principle of the circular economy within organizations. Addressing a notable gap in comprehensively understanding and exploring the relationship between strategic technology decisions, interoperability, and lifecycle assessment in the circular economy’s context, the study embarks with an in-depth literature…
Mastering the Art of New Technology Implementation: Challenges, Evolution, and the Role of AI

Leonard-Barton and Kraus’s observations, made four decades ago, continue to resonate in today’s tech-intensive environment. Their insight into the challenges of new technology implementation remains eerily pertinent, despite considerable advances in disciplines like change management, agile methodologies, and the evolution of the CTO role. As we grapple with the same issues, albeit in a more…
Digital Twins and the bond between IoT and Generative AI

As IoT continues to expand, AI plays a crucial role in enhancing the functionality and user experience of connected devices. By combining IoT and AI, Digital Twins create more advanced ways to integrate and augment real-world objects with their digital-world replica. Generative AI promises to strengthening further the bond between digital and real word as…
IT did not matter, how IT did change and why IT does matter today

successful CIOs and IT leads are the ones that strategically manage technology as the growth and transformation engine of the business.
How Generative AI would change the Technology Manager role

Considering the potential Generative AI has in changing Strategic Technology Management practices and the technology manager profession, you might want 1. Invest in opportunities and risks analysis 2. Develop / strengthen critical thinking skills 3. Implements playbook and guidelines
A Brief view on New Product Development

Stage-Gate is one of the most relevant approaches for New Product Development. Initiated in late 1980s by Robert Cooper it went through various cycles of updates.
Value Proposition and Sustainability considerations

Value proposition represents the entirety of attributes and benefits, wherever tangible or intangible, a given company promises to deliver. The value, as a combination of emotional, functional, economic and symbolic reflections, represents the experience customers or consumer will gain from the product or service. The moment sustainability and business model are disjunct, companies are at…
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (BAT)

This report develops scenarios on how BAT could overcome threats to the company performances like tobacco products total ban and it also provides a critical analysis on BAT marketing activities implemented to scale its reduced risks products.
Contextualizing Innovation

To embrace innovation at the pace required nowadays, organization structures need to be more open and remove barriers within and outside the organizations itself. Knowledge, talent and technology should dynamically flow across organization’s departments and in the ecosystem where the organization operates and aim to contribute with innovation.
Critical Review of Robert Bosch Gmbh Systems and Operations Management

Reflections on how Bosch should consider its digital transformation strategy at scale and with customers & sustainability at his core
Critical Review of NVIDIA CORPORATION – environment, resource and structure

view on NVIDIA competitive advantage
Digital Twin in distributed scenarios

Digital Twins technology has been increasingly gaining relevance to support day-by-day operations and innovation simulations. In this article and the companion technical paper we explore, review, and assert scenarios that take Digital Twin to the next level of complexity and how those new challenges could be addressed by distributed architecture. By doing so, we articulate…
Digital Twin in distributed scenarios. Technical Paper, research approach

The methodology used for identifying, screening, and including the papers and academic works in authoring the “Digital Twin in distributed scenarios” Technical Paper
A conversation around the Sustainable Development Goals and Unfinished-Products

What the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are and the opportunity they represent for business. The technology decision that can deliver an impact and how Unfinished-Products defines a natural archetype for Technology Solutions supporting the SGDs.
Unfinished Products Enterprise Architecture

a ready to use Enterprise Architecture framework for Unfinished Products Business Capabilities. Tested on what we know about Tesla’s strategy and capabilities.
Unchaining value

Unfinished-products change the value chain geometry. From Product Centric to Customer Centric; From Supply Scale to Demand Scale; From optimized for Output to Purpose Driven.