Business Technology

The digital edition of Manufacturing Business Technology will offer subscribers a chance to view full page ads, just as they appear in the magazine, with the added benefit of getting information regarding the company or product instantly via an active link. The digital edition also offers subscribers ANYWHERE access to their issues of Manufacturing Business Technology.

Manufacturing Business Technology is about the use of information technology to improve productivity in manufacturing and supply chain. For the magazine?s corporate, operations and IT audience, the editors write about the management concepts, business processes and product technologies that are changing how work gets done in an era of globalization.

For more than 15 years running, the No. concern among members of the Society for Information Management has been “business and IT alignment.” Sure, such alignment is important. You must be “at the table” of business decision-making. But as Enron showed, having a place at the table is only the first step. Only those who can execute will win.

Another way e-business technology helps increase communication is by giving users the means to outsource their inflexible manufacturing capacities to suppliers that are better equipped to handle them. Until the advent of web-enabled technology, the outsourcing of manufacturing operations was difficult to orchestrate due to the fact that the technology of the day was incapable of providing seamless communication between partners. With its low costs, global connectivity, higher transparency and increased ability to transmit information rapidly, e-business technology advancements have made operations outsourcing much less complicated.

Small family business owners get advice on technology from a variety of sources, including friends and family (29 percent), professional colleagues (24 percent) and technology consultants, retailers or manufacturers (24 percent). Owners who get information from technology sources are more likely to be satisfied with their investments in technology (95 percent satisfied) than those who get information from colleagues (88 percent) and friends and family (75 percent).

Risk Mitigation demonstrates how an organization can take a more informed approach to developing strategic risk postures by considering and expressing risks in terms of potential business impacts, while enabling executive involvement across the entire enterprise to ensure the execution of broad risk mitigation strategies. Once achieved, the goal of bringing technology risk postures into better alignment with overall corporate objectives and culture is a key takeaway for all participants.

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