Manufacturing, AI and opportunities for profitable scale. 1. Austin counter-drone maker opens a 191,000-square-foot factory Summary Allen Control Systems is opening a 191,000-square-foot Austin plant to increase production of its…
Much of the conversation around artificial intelligence focuses on what jobs AI might replace. For businesses, that framing can be distracting because the more useful question is often much narrower:…
Manufacturing, artificial intelligence and opportunities for profitable scale. 1. GE shifts dryer production from Mexico in a $1 billion plant overhaul SUMMARY: GE Appliances will invest $1 billion across its…
Fractional CFOs are often brought into a business to improve financial visibility. Leadership wants better forecasts, stronger cash flow, more dependable reporting, and a clearer understanding of profitability. But many…
Distributors can increase sales and still lose ground on margin. The problem is often not demand. It is pricing. One customer receives a negotiated discount that was never documented. Another…
Businesses rarely struggle to find software. The harder problem is determining which technology will actually improve the business. A company can buy a CRM, an email marketing platform, an e-commerce…
Your factory equipment may generate valuable production data every second—but can the rest of your business use it? In many manufacturing environments, programmable logic controllers operate machinery reliably while important…
Most companies do not set out to create a complicated software environment. It usually happens one decision at a time. Sales adopts one platform. Accounting uses another. Operations creates spreadsheets…
For line-of-business leaders, software is valuable only when it improves the operation. That may mean producing quotes faster, capturing job costs more accurately, reducing the labor required to fulfill an…