2024 SUMMER READING GUIDE Proximity: How Coming Breakthroughs in Just-in-Time Transform Business, Society, and Daily Life BY ROBERT C. WOLCOTT AND KAIHAN KRIPPENDORFF This book explores the transformative impact of digital technologies on production and service delivery, enabling immediate, affordable, and customized value with minimal environmental impact. The authors provide insights into how the “Proximity revolution” is reshaping industries, strategies, supply chains, and sustainability, emphasizing the need for innovative approaches over incremental changes.
Precision Retailing: Driving Results With Behavioral Insights and Data Analytics EDITED BY LAURETTE DUBÉ, MAXIME C. COHEN, NATHAN YANG, AND BASSEM MONIA The retail sector underwent a seismic shift during the COVID-19 era, producing lasting changes and the need for retailers to rethink their business models. Many have turned to behavioral insights to better understand and target customers. This book compiles expert essays providing practical advice on how to apply behavioral science to retail operations, emphasizing the importance of precision in engaging with retail customers and systems.
A New Line in Humans: Living With Future Supply Chains BY K.B. COTTRILL
This entertaining e-book uses science fiction to project current supply chains into the future and explore what might happen if they go awry. Examples include a team of executive androids deciding what to do when a pandemic causes plummeting demand in their remote factory, and a federal agency discovering a potentially disastrous flaw in the algorithms that control self-driving trucks.
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