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Optimizing the Supply Chain through Mobile Technology
February 23, 2012
Time: 17h45-20h40
Place: Grenoble Ecole de Management
Keynote speaker: Neigel Deighton, Wireless Industry Advisor and Consultant and Pat Brans Affiliated Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management
• Is your company ready to make full use of mobile technology?
• Have you considered ways in which your business processes might be made more efficient by providing real time information where it’s needed most?
• Do you understand the technology solutions that are available in the market?
Mobile technology can improve your business in the following ways:
✓ Reduce delivery cycles.
✓ Better predict delivery times.
✓ Reduce inventory.
Join us to find out how other companies have achieved measurable success by applying mobile solutions to their supply chain.
Nigel Deighton is a wireless industry advisor, facilitator, and consultant, advising senior executives on how to position their products, and on how to develop business plans and raise capital.
Deighton was Vice President of mobile communications research at Gartner from 1996 to 2004. He has written and presented hundreds of research papers on the development of personal communications and the evolution of the underlying technology. As VP of Gartner, Deighton consulted with senior managers on how to use mobile technology to boost their business; and he consulted with vendors to help them position their products in the market.
Affiliated Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, Pat Brans writes regular columns on enterprise use of mobile technology for several publications, including Mobile Enterprise Magazine and CIO UK. An industry veteran, Brans has held senior positions in HP and Sybase providing mobile solutions for enterprise customers. His 2002 book, Mobilize Your Enterprise: Achieving Competitive Advantage through Wireless Technology correctly predicted many of today’s trends. Brans will talk about some of the ways in which mobile technology has already provided vast improvements in supply chain management, and how it might be applied in the future for further benefits.
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