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Blockchain: Preventing E. Coli Through Enhanced Traceability

Kinaxis

While investigators traced the heads of lettuce from the prison back to a Yuma business called Harrison Farms, “they haven’t been able to reconstruct the path of the chopped lettuce that made people sick from Washington state to Louisiana to Connecticut,” McKenna writes. However, in Japan and the European Union, food traceability is the norm.

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Axway and OneHealthPort: A Wonderful Success Story

Axway

As Washington State’s Health Information Exchange ( HIE ) which was founded in 2002, OneHealthPort works to solve information … OneHealthPort provides healthcare organizations with a safe, cost-efficient way to share standardized messages with its operating partners on a system-to-system basis.

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Innovators and Entrepreneurs: Destruction and Disruption

Enterra Insights

” Rose concludes, “So as long as Washington encourages an infrastructure that supports entrepreneurship, creative destruction can continue after all.” ”[6] Footnotes [1] Frank Rose, “ The Father of Creative Destruction ,” Wired, 1 March 2002. [2] ” Sounds easy; but it’s not.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

I had the opportunity to present at a hearing in Washington last week – this was a public meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Sub-Committee. This group was composed of notable academics, as well as representatives from government and NGO’s – helping to shape the discussion on biofuels.

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What Steph Curry and LeBron James Can Teach Us About Innovation

GlobalTranz

The 2002 Oakland A’s, who set baseball’s record for longest winning streak with the sixth-lowest paid team in the major leagues, used new statistics to disrupt baseball and set the stage for data-driven revolutions in many sports. Prior to ITIF, Adams was a student at Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned an M.A.

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Are You Ready for the Sharing Economy?

MIT Supply Chain

In 2000, the business took off in Boston and Cambridge, and by 2002 had expanded with the opening of offices in Washington, D.C. [iii] The plan circumvented the growing expense of renting a car at a daily rate or owning a vehicle outright. and New York. [iv] iv] In 2009, Zipcar became the world’s largest car-sharing service.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Deutsche Post started acquiring shares of the company in 1998 and completed its acquisition of DHL by 2002, expanding the brand ‘DHL’ to its other services. Expeditors International of Washington Inc. Expeditors International of Washington Inc. billion (2019) Headquarters: Seattle, Washington, USA CEO: Jeffrey S.