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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Managing Innovation: An Oxymoron?
A system for stimulating innovation may be as close by as your calendar, based on the experience of Google, 3M, and others.
Posted in Innovation, Product Innovation Tagged 3M, Google, Innovation, new product development, R&D, research and development 1 Comment
A Recipe for Cross-Enterprise Traceability
Efforts to create industry-wide food traceability standards have begun, but there’s still a lot of work to be done.
Posted in Enterprise Integration, Systems & Integration Tagged Dole Foods, eProduce, food traceability, HarvestMark, ISA88, ISA95, lot traceability, World Food Trace 1 Comment
The Invensys Vision
The new Invensys Operations Management group and rollout of InFusion 2.0 are the results of a well-orchestrated, very long-term ArchestrA plan.
Where the Enterprise and the Cloud Meet
SAP’s new 12sprints offering is one of a growing number of tools that promise to bring social networking-style collaboration to enterprise application users.
Posted in Enterprise Applications Tagged 12sprints, cloud computing, collaboration, SaaS, SAP, social networking, software as a service, Web 2.0 Leave a comment
Assemble Your SWOT Team
Managers at all levels of a manufacturing organization should take a new look at the SWOT analysis to turn their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats into competitive advantage.
Posted in Customer Management Tagged market analysis, marketing, Opportunities, product segmentation, Strengths, SWOT analysis, Threats, Weaknesses 2 Comments
Sticky Situation for Toyota
Toyota is fixing its pedal problem, but is there a larger issue around lean manufacturing?
How to Make RFID Pay Off for You
Incorporating RFID into end products is a new way to shoulder the costs of a promising but hamstrung technology.
Posted in Customer Management, Supply Network Tagged manufacturing, radio frequency ID, retailer mandate, RFID, tags, Wal-Mart, wireless infrastructure 2 Comments
The Big WAC