I wrote recently about the importance of establishing reliable patient- and specimen-identification protocols and of then following them. That last part, actually following established protocol, may seem too obvious to waste space here saying, but my research revealed that simply failure to follow established procedures is indeed a leading, if not the leading, cause of…
I love to shop and if I could do it all the time I would. There are a few things holding me back though: money does not grow on trees, I have other priorities that come first, and bills that need to be paid. I especially love to shop around the holidays. The sales, the…
In previous blogs we talked about the transition from a manual ticket-writing process to an automated (e-citation) process and the huge time and money savings that occurs when this task is automated. We also touched briefly on the devices in the patrol car that are used to collect data. I think it’s worth spending a…
Please note: This page’s content was updated to reflect the most up-to-date information as of May 27, 2015 Formed as Brown School in 1838, Duke University has since grown into a community of more than 8,000 employees and almost 15,000 students occupying an 8,600-acre campus. The key to organizing the campus activities of this large…
RFID? RTLS? Are they the same thing? Sure, each acronym has a distinct root meaning, but I still hear and read RFID and RTLS used interchangeably. So, which should we use when? Fortunately, Zebra Technologies has published a white paper, RTLS 101: What It Is and Why You Need It, that distinguishes RTLS from RFID…
As advances in information technology – and more recently, in mobile connectivity – produce evermore-informed consumers, pricing strategies have, of necessity, become increasingly aggressive. With retailers vying to retain the title of “the store that offers the greatest value,” pricing strategies have evolved from among the more static aspects of retail merchandising into among its…
Mobility of printing – the ability to bring the printer to the task versus bringing the task to the printer – has the potential to change countless aspects of our lives, whether in the context of a retailer/consumer sale on one end of the spectrum, or of a government agency/citizen interaction on the other. Even…
Whether they learn it from a seminar or glean it instead from years of hard-earned experience, most seasoned managers eventually realize that, when it comes to motivation and skill, they have four basic categories of employees: Those who have neither the motivation nor skills required of the job, Those who have the motivation, but not…
Because I am primarily a visual learner, I’m helped most by those written descriptions that allow me to envision in concrete images the various stages of the processes they describe, and I had just that experience while reading Zebra Technologies’ white paper, Wireless Printing Delivers Efficiency and Cost Savings in Retail, as it described how…
The village of Forrest Hill has less than 500 citizens, yet is home to more than 60 commercial nurseries, most of which are large, wholesale/retail operations representing the culmination of multi-generation family endeavors. The typical Forrest Hill nursery encompasses business functions ranging from production to warehousing to direct wholesale and retail sales to multi-state wholesale…
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