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How Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Survive in the Age of Amazon

As Amazon tightens its grip on the modern-day consumer, you have to wonder: Do traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have any future at all?

0129 How Brickand Mortar

Where Will Companies Find Their Future I.T. Expertise?

We love to complain about the shortcomings of tech support. But how would we feel about a worldwide shortage of I.T. talent?

0122 Where Will Companies Find

Will the New Tax Bill Bring Overseas Profits Back Home?

The Republicans’ tax-reform measure is now the law of the land. So what’s going to happen to all that cash that’s been sitting in the overseas accounts of U.S. multinationals? Is it coming home?

0115 Willthe New Tax

A Cryptocurrency That Embraces Regulation

Is the Wild West of cryptocurrencies about to be tamed?

0108 A Cryptocurrency That Embraces

The Gig Economy Is Here to Stay — But Can Workers Survive in It?

What are we talking about, when we talk about the gig economy?

0102 The Gig Economy Is

The Future of Freight: 'Uberization' and Self-Driving Trucks

For all the dramatic advances in technology, the fundamentals of commercial transportation have remained constant for centuries: the shipper books a load, and the driver delivers it. But the next few years could see a radical transformation in the way that event takes place.

1218 The Futureof Freight

Laboratory Products Get a 'Green' Label. How About Consumer Goods?

It’s been 23 years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began requiring "nutrition facts" labels on most food products. Is it time to do the same for disclosing the environmental impact of laboratory products?

1211 Laboratory Products Geta

Yes, Some Customers Are More Equal Than Others

In the age of analytics and Big Data, all customers are not created equal.

1204 Yes Some Customers Are

Is Cash Replacing Inventory As a Hedge Against Supply-Chain Risk?

Worried about managing supply-chain risk? All you need is cash.

112717 Is Cash Replacing Inventory

Laggards Scramble to Comply With Looming ELD Mandate

The start of the phased-in compliance period for installation of electronic logging devices (ELDs) on commercial trucks is just over a month away. But many drivers appear to be lagging in adopting the technology.

A.I. Comes to Procurement. Are Human Sourcing Professionals Doomed?

Artificial intelligence, for decades little more than a dream in the minds of behavioral scientists, is insinuating itself into every aspect of supply-chain management today. The latest incursion is taking place in the realm of sourcing.

In Talks Over Nafta 2.0, IP Concerns Step to the Fore

Physical products are important, but one of the biggest stumbling blocks to a revised North American Free Trade Agreement could be something that you can't hold in your hands.

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