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Deliver performance enhancing IT with WM's Shortlist guide

WM has published IT Shortlist 2013- the ultimate guide to IT systems and service designed to help manufacturers boost performance.

The 30-page IT Shortlist guide features advice on using IT to enhance the success of continuous improvement programmes. WM's IT editor Brian Tinham also assesses the true potential of supposed game changing developments including business intelligence, ...
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IT Shortlist 2013

No one relishes ripping and replacing major business systems, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet. Brian Tinham looks at recent developments as part of WM's IT Shortlist 2013 guide

Pole position

ERP has grown massively in functionality in recent years.

Big data or in-memory computing?

Brian Tinham, WM's technology editor, asks what is big data and how can it help manufacturers

Politics and language matter

Are IT providers doing enough to banish hype and jargon, asks WM's Brian Tinham

Stepping up to the Mark

Manufacturers say the job market is saturated with a generation of the illiterate and unemployable. So what's Mark Prisk, the man behind future industry policy, going to do about it? The WM Leaders Forum – our think-tank for the sector – ...
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American idol

The UK has long been a follower of US fashion. Bob Davis of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence tells Max Gosney about the latest manufacturing trends heading our way across the Atlantic

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