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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HCL Aftermarket and Terry Vermeylen Enterprises Partner to Optimize the North American Aftermarket Industry with Digital Platforms. North American representative and business partner with The Aftermarket Division of HCL, Terry Vermeylen Enterprises, has announced a partnership with HCL to offer digital solutions to the Aftermarket industry. HCL is a company with 11.8 billion dollars in revenues and partnerships...

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Last year I remotely managed five Digital Transformation projects at the same time. Most were Global and I facilitated five Steering Committees as well. Even if I was in the office, I still managed all the projects remotely. With a decent Wi-Fi connection and a quiet place, I could have done this on a beach! Of course, this has all changed now. The one exception was running business process mapping workshops. I prefer to do that in...

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What is Operational Excellence? OE is a robust and proven methodology to bring the entire Sales and Operations Planning cycle to World Class Standards based on Oliver Wight Process Principals, through which the executive/leadership team continually achieves focus, alignment and synchronization among all functions of the organization. What are some of the benefits?  A Sales and Operations process to review, reconcile, re-calibrate...

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Critical Thinking – “purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based”          -Wikipedia Make your robot vacuum clean your floor… or only one specific spot on the floor Help you to pair your meal with the right wine Turn...

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Information Technology is now a core part of a forward minded and flexible company, as advances in technology have increased at an unforeseen rate in the last few years. In my last article, I described Industry 4.0 and how Cyber Systems, Internet of things (IoT), and cloud computing are driving the collaboration of workers, work machines, and IT. Let’s take a simple look at Digital Transformation and the customer experience. Not too...

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Industry 4.0 is the intellectual or process driven method of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses including the self-optimization, self-configuration and self-diagnosis of workers, work, machines and IT. Industry 4.0 will transform Supply Chains including manufacturing into the next wave of Information technology. I’ve written that SAP is embracing this Supply Chain digital transformation...

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