Innovation in operations: balancing risk, quality and efficiency

About this episode

Scott Powell and Professor Marcus Holgersson discuss how to align technologies with problems while balancing risk, quality, and efficiency.

How can we match the right technologies to the right problems, while balancing speed with quality, and prioritising human factors that shape meaningful progress? Aurecon's Chief Operating Officer, Scott Powell, speaks with Professor Marcus Holgersson from Chalmers University of Technology. Together they explore the interplay between risk, innovation, efficiency and adoption, and how organisations can repeatedly unlock new value safely, be that through AI or other technologies.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Guest: Professor Marcus Holgersson

Topics covered

• innovation
• operations
• risk
• quality
• efficiency
• technology
• human factors

Keywords

• AI
• value
• adoption

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