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Supply chain organization as a survival method

Good companies cruise through recessions, great ones learn from them. If there’s one area that seems to be analyzed and optimized whenever markets slow, it’s the supply chain management and logistics, and it’s easy to see why. On a rainy Monday morning, a purchasing manager entered his large office and took a seat at his [...]

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Chasing the information shortening trends

Try as I might, I can’t avoid starting this off with the obvious. These days, it seems there isn’t a newscaster or a newspaper that hasn’t been pushing Twitter like it’s the cure for cancer, and as impartial as we might be regarding the service, hearing constant echos of twits, tweets, and other made up [...]

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So where’s our stimulus package?

Free money? Yes please? There are few topics as hotly disputed as the recessions stimulus spending, and the camps will likely never agree on whether spending to invest in growth is better than cutting spending to weather the downturn. One thing is for sure, if you haven’t gotten any money by now, you won’t be [...]

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QR Codes Explode into the Western Markets

Microsoft announced its Microsoft Tag alternative to QR codes, and life goes on as it did before. By this I mean that there was no massive shakedown of the industry just yet, and while products pushed by giants such as MS should never be ignored, let’s take a brief look at the future of QR [...]

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Microsoft Tag promisses a bar coding revolution

The bar code industry has been observing the evolution of QR (Quick Read) tags and what it means for the business with mixed feelings. While the standard has existed for years, it hasn’t really had much potential before the advent of mobile phones with respectable cameras. The revolution has actually already started, quietly, in the [...]

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Sink or swim: cutting through the panic and recession proofing your business

The media’s love for a good disaster story is nothing new, and the frenzy that they’re cooking up over the current recession is an unprecedented one. It’s getting so bad, that in part, it is causing the recession to worsen. Are you going down with the ship, or are you going to come out of it on top of the pile?

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