Digital Collaboration and the 21st C.

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it's not too early to ask why, and what we need to do about it... Our nation and our civilization were built on production, on building. We built roads and trains, farms and factories, then the computer, the microchip, the smartphone, and uncounted thousands of other things that we now take for granted, that are all around us, that define our lives and provide for our well-being. There is only one way to create the future we want for our own children and grandchildren, and that's to build.

A new video series from MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte Insights follows the creation of an aviation part as it moves along the “digital thread,” creating a growing knowledge base of data and feedback as it evolves from design to final testing.

What happens when all Tech Manufacturing stops



The novel coronavirus outbreak has put the world’s biggest cities into lockdown -- and thrown tech manufacturing into chaos. And because of the high-speed, low-inventory theory of lean manufacturing, it could take a long time for the industry to bo