China is an extremely fast-growing economy where the standard of living in the major urban centers has improved even faster than the overall growth rate. The financial sector of the economy is also evolving rapidly. However, China is at a very different position than many other economies in terms of its payment systems in the economy. In China personal checks are not used. The use of cash is extremely...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been heralded by some commentators as a technology that will have as big an impact on supply chain operations as the advent of computer based planning systems in the early 1970's; others say it is just yet another technology fad that will have gone away in a couple of years...

The web is having a significant impact on how firms interact with each other and their customers. Past stumbling blocks for supply chain integration such as high transaction costs between partners, poor information availability, and the challenges of managing complex interfaces between functional organizations are all dissolving on the web. In this paper...

All products and services have certain life cycles. The life cycle refers to the period from the product's first launch into the market until its final withdrawal and it is split up in phases. During this period significant changes are made in the way that the product is behaving into the market i.e. its reflection in respect of sales to the company that introduced it into the market...

Why Business as Usual Won't Work Anymore for IT Large corporations are becoming increasingly frustrated with the long deployment cycles, high costs, complicated upgrade processes and information technology (IT) infrastructure demanded by traditional software applications...

3D Body scanning is a technology that produces a 3D model through scanning. An individual stands in the scanners view, while it captures his body image and produces 3D images within seconds. The scanner uses a series of light sensors to produce a 3D image...