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C-suite executives tend to delegate manufacturing strategy to the manufacturing experts and IT strategy to the technology experts. Historically, that was a good strategy. Now, with the emergence of...

This platform turns up in many places, and can do many things, but there aren't many that really understand it. Here is a quick guide to explain the basics....