Articles
As part of the Collaborate to Innovate initiative, the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network and CMO Council have aggregated articles from a wide variety of sources to help executive gain insight into the economics, operations, best practices and challenges of today's business networks, supply chains, and value chains. Browse the pages below for news coverage and trends across all major industries.
09.06.11 CMO Council to Publish Peer-Powered Journal for Print and Digital Media - CHICAGO, Illinois (Sept. 6, 2011) – The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, a global executive affinity group controlling more than $200 billion in annual marketing spend worldwide, has announced a multi-channel, multi-format publishing initiative that will deliver an in-depth and engaging peer-driven quarterly print journal and digital formats for web, mobile, tablets, like the iPad, and mail delivery to members and subscribers worldwide. The first edition of PeerSphere, the official journal of the CMO Council, will be launched in the fourth quarter of 2011. |
01.24.11 Global CIO: FedEx CIO Explains The Real Power Of Cloud - Information Week: Global CIO |
01.15.11 Down To Business: IT Spending's Heading Up, But Is It Headed In The Right Direction? - Information Week: Global CIO |
01.20.10 Method In Motion - LogisticsWeek For a generation fed on malls, technology, and mobile phones, it is only necessary that markets bring forth creations and products that can satiate them. Businesses are not content with adopting new technologies alone, they are also seeking out new models of doing business — profitably. Amit Mukherjee, Vice-President (IT and supply chain) and Group CIO at RPG, has been working steadily for the last three years towards consolidating the supply-chain and is deploying some effective strategies. |
11.30.-1 How CIOs can influence new product innovation - CIO By combining the capabilities of the Web, cloud computing, analytics and tiny intelligent sensors, CIOs can help create wholly new products and services connected to networks and to each other. |
11.30.-1 An Underused Way To Control Inventory - Industrial Distibution The consumer demands real-time information and retailers are forced to employ systems that show inventory visibility to the item level and to provide that information to internal parts of the operation that handle production, procurement, shipping, customer service, and financials. |
11.30.-1 Staples Pushes Key Suppliers for Sustainable Products, Packaging - Environmental Leader Staples has launched a new corporate strategy to drive sustainability in the supply chain for product manufacturing, packaging and distribution. The office products retail chain is challenging its key suppliers to compete in a “Race to The Top” to find innovative sustainable solutions in these three areas. |
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