| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
Taking off after the coronavirus pandemic: How commercial aviation can navigate the recovery phase
Commercial Aviation

The coronavirus pandemic has been a tough and testing time for the commercial aviation industry. As lockdowns begin to ease…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Aerospace & Defense, Creativity & Innovation
On First Principles: Challenging Tradition to Solve Communal Problems
Challenger Champion Bal Sangha

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, global travel has experienced an unprecedented downturn. With airlines taking the brunt of…

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| | Estimated reading time: 7 minutes | Business Agility, Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure
COVID-19 is disrupting the residential housing market—what action should housebuilders take?

House sales have slowed dramatically in many countries, so housebuilders are wrestling with what they need to do to ensure…

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| | Estimated reading time: 8 minutes | Creativity & Innovation, IFS Labs
Coffee Break with AI – Games and AI Part 1

Coffee Break with AI is brought to you by Elisio Quintino and Martijn Loos. In this edition of Coffee Break…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Service
IFS Planning and Scheduling Optimization – Our Own Crystal Ball
Planning and Scheduling Optimization

What makes humans different? What attribute separates us from other species? The primary one I would suggest is our ability…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Partner, Service
IFS Partners with TomTom to Set the Standard for Best-in-Class Optimization
IFS and TomTom

Here at IFS, we understand that scheduling and planning optimization can be so much more than a bludgeon to lower…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Partner
Q&A With IFS Partner: Kreuzbauer
IFS Partner Kreuzbauer

In this installment of our interview series, I caught up with one of the longest-serving members in the German-speaking partner…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | assyst Blog
What is Procurement Debt? The pain you avoid when you make a great tech purchasing decision
What is Procurement Debt? The pain you avoid when you make a great tech purchasing decision

In software development, technical debt is the future cost of picking an easy solution now over a better one that…

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Manufacturing
Reports from the manufacturing front lines in a post-pandemic world

Manufacturers today are still recovering from the initial economic shocks that came as businesses shut down to prevent further spread…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | assyst Blog
Improving IT Maturity: Moving from “Awareness to Committed”
Improving IT Maturity: Moving from "Awareness to Committed"

In this post, we look at the typical attributes of a “Level 1” organization (Awareness), and what IT Infrastructure and…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Automotive
What automakers and their suppliers can learn from the global COVID-19 pandemic
automotive industry COVID-19

Automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their tier I and tier II suppliers have in the immediate term been hit…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure
How to be one of the post-pandemic winners in the engineering and construction sector
engineering and construction

In the engineering and construction sector around the world we are seeing projects paused and new opportunities stalled. This temporary…

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