Operating in an uncertain global economy

• What types of uncertainties face your company?

• Sales, supply chain, costs, prices, tariffs, regulatory, workforce?

• What is the potential cost your company might pay for any combination of such uncertainties to impact your business?

• For how long could you sustain that cost or negative impact?

Transform risks and uncertainties into a competitive advantage

• The risks and uncertainties that face your company, face your competitors as well

• The better your preparation to address them, the more such risks and uncertainties become your opportunity and competitive advantage

• LindenAI helps clients prepare for and address their risks and uncertainties with impactful intelligence

• LindenAI has deep and broad expertise that can apply across many industries and domains of expertise

• LindenAI helps companies leverage digital knowledge to their competitive advantage

Aging and retiring workforce

• You have fewer workers with the experience and judgement that you need

• You need to capture their knowledge before you lose it

• You want to leverage their experience and judgement as needed

Reducing the overheads of product diversification

• You want to fulfill customer requests for variations in your product

• You need to be able to satisfy those requests and still make a profit

• You need a faster return on production reconfiguration investment for the quantities of product you will produce

Market Right-Sizing

• Access to:

  • Small number of markets with high demand

  • Large number of markets with small demand, and

  • Any number of markets with variable demand

• Low-mix and high-volume markets are becoming fewer and fewer.

  • Competition erodes at market share.

  • Supply chain fragilities can impact order fulfillment times and rates

  • Regional protectionism can erase a regional market in the flourish of a pen

• Access to high-mix and low-volume markets requires highly agile production capabilities

  • You need production tools that can be reconfigured within minutes, not months

  • Your workforce needs to be able to handle rapid production reconfiguration tasks more than single product-specific tasks

• In reality, you need to be free to pursue the customers that you want to pursue, and you want your production capabilities to right-size accordingly.

Attracting a skilled workforce

• Employees want a career more than a job

• A career means professional growth and an increase in their value for your company and for the job market

• Employers can expect high turn-over and understaffing in jobs that do not offer a career path for the worker

• A frequent lament among employers is that they are operating at 20-25% below their required staffing levels

• This is a clear sign that they are not offering jobs that are compatible with the skill base of their employment market

Empowering your employees with more fulfilling and marketable skills

• It is in the interest of a company’s bottom line to hire a workforce for which there is an abundance of skills on the market

• It is in the interest of employees to work in an employment market where there is an abundance of requests for their skills

• The modern workforce is significantly more skilled than in previous generations

• The skills of the modern workforce are also outpacing the skill requirements of positions offered

Designing new products to succeed, for startups and product innovators

• Developing a new product in its envisioned entirety is costly and highly risky

• New products need to be designed with the following criteria in mind:

  • Market acceptance

  • Market stratification

  • Regulatory requirements

  • Insurance acceptance and requirements

Finding the right AI, robotic, or advanced automation technologies

• Lots of products are offered, all claiming to solve problems in the abstract

• The real test of a product is in terms of how well it supports processes, operates with existing technologies, and its was of use

• Based on our understanding of customer needs, we can evaluate and recommend the products best suited to our clients, negotiate features on their behalf, and help our client begin to maximize their utility of the product as quickly as possible