When it comes to using technology to re-invent how companies do business, Michael Hammer wrote the book on the concept. His 1993 best seller "Reengineering the Corporation" (with coauthor James Champy ...

WASHINGTON -- In 1801, Eli Whitney disassembled ten muskets made from interchangeable parts, placed the parts in a big pile, and then reassembled ten muskets from parts picked at random, demonstrating ...

You can improve company performance by re-engineering your organizational structure to make it match your market environment more closely. Your market has constraints and characteristics that affect ...

The tools and techniques of digital transformation greatly simplify and speed up new product development. They are counterproductive and even senseless, however, if put to work supporting the ...

The human body is a marvel of engineering, but it’s a machine that requires maintenance and repair. At times, that means trying to replace parts lost to injury or illness. The oldest known prosthesis ...

Over the nearly a quarter century since the Web has been in existence, there have been various websites and projects in the field covered by Hackaday that have done the rounds and captured our ...

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” This truism—by the media-scholar John Culkin about the work of Marshall McLuhan—is more potent than ever in the age of data ...

It’s time for a coherent national logistics system, regulating and coordinating what has been privatized. Meanwhile, because so much production is concentrated in individual factories, risks have ...

In an age when people are being re-engineered into farm animals for AI ranchers, it's the job of engineers to save humanity through true personal agency. A few months ago, I was driving through Los ...

The technology industry is comfortable with trends that increase linearly for decades—and many that follow quadratic curves, also seemingly forever. Moore’s Law and the rate of adoption of new ...

Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity ...