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ERPAugust 29, 2019

Cloud Accounting: Top Four Questions Every CFO Should Ask

So you’re considering the cloud. You’ve heard about the benefits, reduced costs, and the absence of cumbersome hardware. Across the industrial landscape, the cloud is being called the business management and accounting vehicle of necessity. But resonating in your head is the old adage look before you leap, and you should.

ERPAugust 29, 2019

Growth Strategy for Manufacturers: Marketing KPIs

About the Author: Bruce McDuffee's been on the ground in manufacturing marketing and sales growth strategy for manufacturers for three decades. As global marketing director of an electronics manufacturing company, he tested and proved his strategies and tactics in the real world of global manufacturing. When Bruce speaks about marketing, manufacturers listen. His team is made up of manufacturers with more than 50 years of combined manufacturing sales and marketing experience. He knows what you're up against. We've asked Bruce to share his tested and proven marketing strategies, tactics, and technology with other companies facing manufacturing challenges.

LogisticsAugust 29, 2019

Manufacturing USA Annual Report: What it means for the Supply Chain

America's manufacturing sector and its importance to the country's economic well-being and national security cannot be overstated. While manufacturing makes up 8.5% of U.S employment and 11.7% of U.S. GDP (gross domestic product), our country’s manufacturers drive 35% of productivity growth, 60% of exports, and 70% of private-sector research and development (R&D). This is of big importance to not only to you and me — and the nation — but the global supply chain as well.

MESAugust 29, 2019

Manufacturing CIO Insights: Collecting and analyzing IoT data

Industrial Internet of Things Since the early 2000s, Internet of Things (IoT) devices monitor equipment, automate processes, and improve worker safety — serious technology strategies for manufacturing CIOs. Moore’s Law, a computing term around since 1970 which submits that processor speeds (overall processing power for computers) doubles every two years, applies to IoT devices, too. Their use increases over time, but what happens to all of the data they collect?

Corporate NewsAugust 29, 2019

Interview: The Price of Business & Management Technology

While in Houston, Tex., for a technology roadshow, I was invited to a radio interview with The Price of Business to talk about the latest in business management technologies and what they can do for a company's bottom line. The show, which is the longest running business program in Houston, Texas, is on Bloomberg’s home (Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK) and is also broadcast on numerous national media sites.

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