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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

In the apparel industry, the benchmark for inventory accuracy is somewhere between 60% and 70%. This would allow it to uniquely identify every product, even distinguishing fashion items by size and color, as well as proving information on its location. Consider an IT investment that one European retailer was pondering.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. Our hope is that it serves several purposes. The scores for each component were normalized.