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The poet Carl Sandburg famously described
Chicago as the “City of Broad Shoulders,” and so
it was, when top business leaders recently
gathered there to shoulder the broad challenges
of a fast-spreading technology: Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID).
Propelled by new mandates at major retailers
such as Wal-Mart, and by initiatives at the U.S.
Department of Defense, growing numbers of
organizations in a wide variety of vertical
niches are adopting RFID, a “paradigm-shifting”
innovation that is generating operational
efficiencies and strategic advantages within
supply chains – but considerable concerns among
managers.
To address these concerns, the RFID industry’s
best and brightest minds met last December at
the Omni hotel in conference room overlooking
Michigan Avenue’s “Magnificent Mile,” for a
panel discussion about the perils and promise of
this proliferating technology. The results of
this top-level analysis demonstrated in the
roundtable and preceding market research study
have been synthesized and incorporated into this
market impact assessment report. |
