Intelligent Automation for Competitive Advantage by Avasant
"Automation has been the cornerstone of the global economy going back more than two and a half centuries, when a quartet of inventions – the spinning jinny in 1764, the steam engine in 1775, the power loom in 1785 and the cotton gin in 1794 – radicalized the production and transport of goods and set the foundation for a largely uninterrupted arc of economic growth that continues through today. Every subsequent era of entrepreneurship and invention, from the communications revolutions of the mid19th century to the automobile of the early-20th century to air travel and mass manufacturing of
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"Automation has been the cornerstone of the global economy going back more than two and a half centuries, when a quartet of inventions – the spinning jinny in 1764, the steam engine in 1775, the power loom in 1785 and the cotton gin in 1794 – radicalized the production and transport of goods and set the foundation for a largely uninterrupted arc of economic growth that continues through today. Every subsequent era of entrepreneurship and invention, from the communications revolutions of the mid19th century to the automobile of the early-20th century to air travel and mass manufacturing of