Service-oriented Architecture—Savior or Nemesis?
Hitachi Consulting

Managed well, service-oriented architecture (SOA) offers a tremendous opportunity to make positive changes and lay a foundation that will allow IT…

Sales and Operations Planning: Choosing the Optimal Strategy for Your Business
Hitachi Consulting

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) provides the visibility and agility to improve product management and promotional planning, minimize…

Business Intelligence that Works: Getting True Value out of Your Business Intelligence Investment
Hitachi Consulting

With business intelligence (BI), decision-makers can feel the organization’s pulse, evaluate the performance of key business functions, and…

Creating the Single Customer View
Hitachi Consulting

With today’s strategic focus on data, a significant challenge facing companies is the ability to use data to create a single customer view (SCV).…

Six Key Trends Changing Supply Chain Management Today: Choosing the Optimal Strategy for Your Business
Hitachi Consulting

Technology and process upgrades at forward-thinking companies confirm supply chain excellence as a more widely accepted element of overall…

Using Supply Chain Design and Optimization to Reduce Inventory
Hitachi Consulting

Historically, companies have invested in tactical and operational supply chain technology solutions. These solutions helped model and operate…

Knowledge Management: The ROI of Employee Brain Trusts—New Strategies for Reversing the Recent Trend
Hitachi Consulting

Implementing technology without the proper people and processes in place only means bad service is delivered faster. Indeed, the employee brain…

IT Epidemic: Treating IT Client Relationship Breakdown
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The frequency of breakdowns in the IT client relationship is reaching epidemic proportions. Indeed, an IT client breakdown is comparable to…