RFID and Beyond: Growing Your Business Through Real World Awareness

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Quantities of time, ink, and energy have been devoted to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and its potential effect on business, industry, even the whole of society. In this forward-thinking work, visionary executive Claus Heinrich looks beyond the limitations of a single technology, creating an exciting view of a future framed in the dynamic model he calls Real World Awareness.

Your journey begins with a look at how the business world is replicating the aviation model. You will explore the adaptive business network, the consumer-driven supply network, and other new business paradigms, as well as the technology behind RFID tags, smart cards, and sensors. More than a dozen top business leaders and technology educators have contributed their wisdom and perspective to help prepare you for the challenges facing early implementers of Real World Awareness, including the social, political, and legal issues swirling around RFID technology.

Finally, you will see how RFID will revolutionize business processes to offer value undreamed of—until now.

Table of Contents: 

Part I: Real World Awareness In Business

1. Business Navigation and Real World Awareness

2. How Real World Awareness Will Change Your Business

3. The Technologies of Real World Awareness

4. Business Process Design and Optimization

5. Implementing Real World Awareness

6. People, Privacy. Politics

Part II: Experts in real World Awareness

7. Mastering the Legal Challenges

8. The Impact of RFID on Supply Chain Efficiency

9. Exploding Edges and Potential for Disruption

10. The X Internet Unleashes Real World Awareness Services Revolution

Index

Review Quotes: 

"Real World Awareness will become as vital as the Internet to most companies before long, and now is the time to understand it thoroughly. RFID and Beyond explains how a storm of information is coming, one that will transform businesses by providing better information, improved processes, and new frontiers for innovation. This book is an important tool for success in this new world."
— Juergen Weber, Chairman of the Board, Lufthansa

Author(s): 
Claus Heinrich
Publication Date: 
March 2005
Publisher: 
John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 
278
Language: 
English
ISBN: 
0764583352
Cover Type: 
Hardcover
About the Authors: 

Claus E. Heinrich

Claus E. Heinrich has been a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG since 1996. During his 18 years with SAP, he has headed multiple areas, including SAP R/3 development, SAP's Manufacturing Industry solutions, human resources, and labor relations. Widely recognized as a practitioner and an international thought-leader in Supply Chain Management space, Heinrich serves on the boards of several academic institutions as well as that of a consumer packaged goods company.

With a doctorate in Business Administration, Heinrich is also the author of several articles and books including Adapt or Die—Transforming Your Supply Chain into an Adaptive Business Network. He lectures as a Professor of Management Science at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

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