According to an article in RFID Journal, the message that RFID can transform business processes is still failing to percolate its way up to the Board, and particularly to grab the attention of the CEO.
The article reports a survey of German companies by the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) in Aachen and P3 Ingenieurgesellschaft, a consulting company, into RFID's usage and potential. It asked questions such as "Which division in your company drove or is driving RFID? In which areas do you see potential for RFID? Did RFID deliver what you expected?"
It concludes that "most companies do not plan their applications properly to get the most out of RFID from a process-improvement and business perspective, though they are motivated by lowering costs (72 percent of respondents said they launched RFID projects to improve processes) and reducing errors."
Might be worth a read.....If the C-suite is still not fully aware of the true potential of RFID, will managers really have the appropriate top-level executive support needed for real business process change to happen?
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