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Working with so many companies in locations across the globe gives Jabil a better perspective than most when speaking about industry sectors keen to embrace disruption and digitisation . It is Caltabiano ’ s belief that companies in the markets that are being most significantly disrupted – notably by IoT – are ‘ moving the fastest ’.
“ I think the regulated businesses are the slowest ,” he observes . “ Regulated products tend to have lengthy life cycles , which makes it difficult to change the way you run their supply chains .
After all , if you ’ re building a product designed 15 years ago with a supply chain that was implemented 15 years ago , it ’ s hard to transform how you operate because of long-term investments and legacy operations .
“ To an extent , how prepared companies are to embrace the change is partly dictated by the dynamics of the industry they work in .”
When it comes to Jabil ’ s own digital transformation , the company is on a fast track , analysing how new technology can speed the myriad transactions that
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