Sat.Jun 29, 2013 - Fri.Jul 05, 2013

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What Can Logisticians Learn from Emergency Room Doctors - The idea of "Thin Slicing"

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I have read a lot about " control towers " and " big data " lately as I am sure many of you have. This has led me to ask myself, "What will I do with all that data"? More so, I also ask myself, "does more data really result in better decisions or does it get in the way - create so much "noise" that I cannot even see what is really going on"? In previous times we would ask ourselves if we could see the forest through the trees?

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3D Printing Fashion: A Looming Revolution in the Apparel Industry

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Time and time again throughout history, thriving, well-established, finely tuned industries have faced waves of technological disruption that thoroughly upended the status quo.

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Supply Chain Management:Asset Management on Cloud

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Carbon Offsets Should Be Part of a Sustainability Program

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When I talk sustainability, either individually or in groups, the same consistent theme comes from middle management: We will do it if it also makes economic sense (i.e., immediate payback) but we will not do it if it "costs" us. Very few companies and people today will execute sustainability projects purely because it is the "right" thing to do. The problem with this however is that it is tough, if not impossible, for the free economic market to put a true cost on environmental issues.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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Will Monday Morning, July 1, be Y2K All Over Again?

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The fear mongering that has gone on about the hours of service (HOS) changes taking effect on Monday remind me a lot of the Y2K fear. For those who were around then remember the TV networks showing every major city in the world as Y2K hit? The idea was to see if the lights all turned out, the computers shut down and some sort of Mad Max - Beyond The Thunderdome scenario would start?

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