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You Say You're Customer-Centric, But Are You Really?
Most business leaders stress the importance of understanding customers to stay relevant in today's fast-changing competitive environment. Why, then, do many companies focus inward and, as a result, overlook or underestimate change signals?
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Construction Labor, Chemical Industry Partner to Create Jobs
Sparks are flying between the chemical industry and organized construction labor - two groups which, by working together, could have a major impact on economic growth and job creation in our country.
Finally, Germany to Subsidize Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrids
German government ministers have met with OEM representatives to finalize the long-awaited plan to subsidize the sale of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in the country.
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Weak First Quarter Doesn't Dampen Confidence of Air Cargo Executives Going Forward
Now that the first quarter of fiscal 2016 is in the past, results are in from IATA's most recent airline business confidence survey, and gauging from the responses of airline CFOs and cargo heads surveyed - their outlook is bullish for the remainder of the year, despite a perceived weak first quarter.
Cellcontrol Partners With TomTom to Reduce Truck Driver Distraction
Cellcontrol has developed a customized version of its safe-driving platform specifically for TomTom Bridge, a semi-rugged navigation device built for vehicle fleets.
Big Data Has Made Decision Making Worse, Not Better, Report Says
Across many industries, both business planning and key decision-making are increasingly informed by big data. As pressure mounts to match business operations to the record pace of current, aggressive market innovation, more organizations are looking to base decisions on hard numbers in order to mitigate risk and raise return. But faulty interpretation of data invites error in deriving and applying insights.
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Asia Pacific, Middle East Cities Head List of Top 50 Retail Markets
JLL's Destination Retail report, which looks at the top cities worldwide for retailing, shows 50 major global cities have risen to the top of the list for mainstream, premium and luxury retailers' expansions.
ERP Systems Aren't Fungible. You Need One Designed Especially for Your Industry.
No two companies are alike, and their ERP systems shouldn't be either. Manufacturing and distribution, in particular, have unique, and uniquely complex, processes and workflows that require functionality a vanilla ERP application can't provide.
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Maersk Begins Direct Service From North European Ports to Cuba's Mariel
Maersk Line marked the introduction of its first direct service from Northern Europe to Cuba on April 22 when a 2,556-TEU container vessel arrived in the Port of Mariel, 30 miles from Havana.
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Manufacturing Jobs on Decline Worldwide, And Globalization Isn't Main Culprit
In America's factories, jobs are disappearing. But despite the political rhetoric, the problem is not mainly globalization. Manufacturing jobs are on the decline in factories around the world.
As E-Commerce Growth Slows in China's Major Cities, 'Low-Tier' Areas Become Attractive
With the most internet users of any country, China is the world's largest and fastest-growing e-commerce market. Capitalizing on opportunities, however, is becoming harder for consumer-facing companies as e-commerce penetration rates plateau in high-tier cities and as digital attackers, especially in the online-to-offline space, cut into incumbents' margins.
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The Future of Logistics? 'Bionic Enhancements' & 'Self-Learning Machines' - Eventually.
Do "self-learning machines" and "bionic enhancements" fill you with wonder about the future of logistics or just cause anxiety headaches? Fortunately, we'll all have several more years to decide how we feel about these technologies and others listed in DHL's third annual "Logistics Trend Radar" report.
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