It’s a business thing

Posted on 11 May 2011 by The Manufacturer

As companies race to seize competitive advantage in a tentative economic upturn the need for ever finer degrees of efficiency is pushing the use of IT and automated analytics up the strategic priority list. But what does this mean for manufacturers? Jane Gray chewed the fat with industry representatives.

The latest of The Manufacturer’s Director’s Forum (MDF) dinners, held on April 7 in Nottingham and sponsored by Columbus IT, provided a timely opportunity to ask attendees how the recently reported slump in economic optimism was affecting their operations and the motivations behind their use of technologies like enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, business analytics…

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