Friday, March 29, 2024
Innovation + Technology

Innovation + Technology

QAD Elevate Program

ELEVATE Your Business – Shift to QAD Cloud

Disruption Disruption is everywhere and, as we know, it’s not always a once in a while event. But it’s not very helpful to only focus on solving yesterday's problems and disruptions. How...
innovation, diffusion of innovation, disruption

Diffusion of Innovation: How the Adoption of New Ideas Spreads

Next to identifying a new disruption, watching how innovations diffuse is the most fascinating thing. Will the newest thing make it or crash and burn? Start the popcorn popper and let’s...
metaverse, cryptocurrency

15 Must-Know Metaverse and Cryptocurrency Statistics for 2022

Last year, Facebook announced that it was rebranding to Meta after over 16 years under the old alias. The introduction of Zuckerberg’s Meta also came with the announcement of a new...
dominant design, disruptive innovation, innovation, SaaS

Disruptive Innovation and the Dominant Design

Disruption is one of my favorite topics. Having spent 30 years in technology, I witnessed decades of disruptions. Microsoft Word eclipsing secretaries and typewriters, Mainframes replaced, the iPhone, online shopping and...
Tim Cook, sustainability

Champions of Sustainability: Tim Cook

Sustainability has become both a strategic and operational objective for manufacturers globally. Sustainable business practices are not only good for the environment, they can increase company viability in the long term...
SaaS, Role of technology, Innovation, Buildings

SaaS and the Role of Technology

Do you ever wonder how some companies can leverage technology into breakthrough innovation and improved revenues while others languish with one failed attempt after another, stuck in the muck of aging...
purchasing, procurement, integrated supplier management, supplier management

An Introduction to QAD’s Purchasing Capabilities

Every company desires to make their purchasing process more efficient. For those individuals that have been involved with procurement, we know that this is often a lofty goal as days can...
world wide web, WWW, manufacturing, disruption

How the World Wide Web Disrupted Manufacturing

Disruptive technologies have become the standard in manufacturing, so much so that it’s easy to forget the unprecedented rate of change we’ve all become accustomed to, and that it all began...
EQMS, EQMS 2022, Quality Management System, Quality Management

Introducing QAD EQMS 2022

QAD is proud to announce the release of the 2022 version of QAD EQMS, our Enterprise Quality Management System. In this release we address the workforce shortages and absenteeism caused by...
innovation, invention, commercialization, SaaS

Innovation – “the Commercialization of an Invention”

Hopefully by now, as a manufacturing enterprise or business serving the global supply chain, you are into SaaS up to your knees. You have more flexibility, you are building capabilities in...