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User Interfaces Require Serious Consideration Because They Are More Than Just Pretty Faces

Everyone is changing their user interface these days"”even new automobiles have touch screens rather than buttons. However, not all UIs are created equal. Some of them are just pretty faces.

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Continued Investment in Multi-Year ERP Is the "¦ Big, Bad Wolf

Usually in a fairy tale there is a big, bad wolf "¦ one that is going to eat you up! Such a wolf is swallowing up the supply chain.

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How Many Companies Successfully Draw on Globally Dispersed Knowledge Bases?

For their global innovation strategies, many companies have long relied on their ability to assemble people with key capabilities and critical knowledge. They typically do this through co-location: bringing together designers, engineers, technologists, and other creative thinkers in a few innovation centers at home and in lead markets. The new products and services they create are then disseminated to markets across the world. But as the range of knowledge needed for global innovation becomes wider and more varied, co-location is no longer sufficient.

A "Control Tower" Approach to Response Management

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Power of One: Collaborative Planning and Execution across the End-to-End Supply Chain

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Shoppers Taking to Mobile Commerce More, But Not for Groceries at This Point, Survey Finds

Symphony EYC, a player in retail and distribution improvement software formerly known as Aldata, announced that its second U.S. holiday shopping survey has determined that in the United States shoppers want to use their mobile phones to make shopping easier, more personalized, and to have more control over inventory, but that purchasing groceries with a mobile is still in its infancy.

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Without an Agile Supply Chain, Being First to Market May Not Guarantee Success

The first to arrive in a market is often the one who ends up owning the dominating market share. But simply recognizing a trend is too little, too late. There will already be a line of other manufacturers who have the new customized product, flexible supply chain and tailored pricing structure in place.

With All Its Benefits, Cloud Computing Does Not Come Without Risks

The use of highly scaled, shared, and automated IT platforms"”known as cloud computing"”is growing rapidly. Adopters are driven by the prospects of increasing agility and gaining access to more computing resources for less money. Large institutions are building and managing private-cloud environments internally (and, in some cases, procuring access to external public clouds) for basic infrastructure services, development platforms, and whole applications. Smaller businesses are primarily buying public-cloud offerings, as they generally lack the scale to set up their own clouds. But as attractive as cloud environments can be, they also come with new types of risks.

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Top 3 Priorities for Multi-Enterprise Supply Chains

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How An Integrated Supply Chain Enables First Solar's Business Goals

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U.S. Oil Production Highest in 10 Years

U.S. oil production has exceeded 7 million barrels a day for the first time since March 1993 as improved drilling techniques boosted exploration across the country and reinforced a shift toward energy independence.

Restaurants to Back Off on Menu Price Hikes, Increase Group Purchasing

Chain restaurants, battered by value-hungry customers and rising commodity prices, are showing little appetite for significant menu price increases, according to a new survey of industry executives conducted by SpenDifference, a supply chain co-op that helps restaurants save money.

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