Healthcare Supply Chain Technology and Strategy

Following up on our popular Beignet challenge from last year , we Invite you to join us in Nashville for this year's intriguing game...  Find the man in the ostrich boots...  Just take a picture of the man (or woman) you find wearing these ostrich skin boots. (Full Quill only please...)   Join us at the Music City Center in Nashville March 12–14, 2017 for the NDC International Exhibition , This annual meeting brings together medical distributors, manufacturers and GPO partners for a three-day event featuring a large trade show and opportunities for education, networking and peer-to-peer mentoring.  Come visit us at Booth number 505 on the medical show floor to see the latest updates to the MDS-Nx Software suite as well as have a chance to win your special prize for showing us the  Ostrich Skin Boots..  As this is Nashville , we are hoping this is not that much of a challenge. So take a break from all those meetings, and take some time to get out and enjoy...

Across many industries, both business planning and key decision-making are increasingly informed by big data. As pressure mounts to match business operations to the record pace of current, aggressive market innovation, more organizations are looking to base decisions on hard numbers in order to mitigate risk and maximize returns on investment. But faulty interpretation of data invites error in deriving and applying insights. These new risks have created opportunities for the CFO and Finance Teams to collaborate with other members of the company to usher in new ways of working and to obtain a competitive advantage in their markets. One such risk derives from big data failures from information overload and resulting delays in decision making. The successful strategic use of big data requires two steps: deriving relevant insights and then implementing them to create informed strategies. Both of these steps have spawned problems within organizations today.  According to a recent report...