Despite extraordinary progress in electronic design automation (EDA), custom IC design tools– whether for digital, analog, or radio-frequency (RF)–have not kept pace with the rest of the industry. The ...
The past year’s economic volatility forced business leaders to shift strategies and reduce spending while simultaneously seeking new paths to profitability. In particular, according to a Gartner ...
The move to standardize processes has gone overboard, say M. Eric Johnson and Joseph M. Hall in this month’s Harvard Business Review. Some processes, they argue, are more akin to art than science and ...
On the face of it, standardization and improvement may be viewed as extreme opposites. We look at the benefits of standardization. Some standardization benefits are specific to lean. Breaking down ...