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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. My first thank-you note is to the United States military. This impact declined at the start of the last decade, and the impact of the third-industrial revolution stopped in 2004. World Trade Intensity and Annual Growth. –the focus in the front office was for agility.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course.