Cloud computing is the most important data storage advancement in many years. If wielded correctly, the cloud can expand your control over your business while lowering your software costs. Here are 10 questions to ask before implementing cloud ERP software. From Manufacturing Business Technology.
What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? This TED Talk shows what the future holds if we want to get off the grid. In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how questioning our notion of 'normal' can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs.
Who do you trust more with your data: Facebook or a bank? The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) proposes a new way to store your data online that would let Web surfers store and manage their own data, much like money in a bank account, and selectively lend it to companies that provide a benefit in return. Business Week online has the story.
Kevin Dewalt writes of his experiences as a D.C. tech entrepreneur at his blog, From the Start-up Trenches. He published a two-part essay on the difficulties of creating a lean start-up company. Visit his blog and read "Why Lean Startups Are Hard Part 2 — Pivoting How We Think."
Do continuous improvement initiatives drive financial benefits for manufacturers? And if they don't, why bother with them? The answer to the first question is an unequivocal "yes," according to recent research, which renders the second question moot. The survey, conducted for IndustryWeek and TBM Consulting, looked at the impact of continuous-improvement programs on three financial metrics.
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