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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Strategy
IFS Marketing – One step or one lap at a time

I’m a relative newcomer to both IFS and the world of software, having 20-odd years’ history in the IT sector,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Automotive, Business Technology, Strategy
How to Close the Gap in Automotive ERP
Cars

The concept of “just-in-time” manufacturing could have been invented for the automotive industry, one with tight supply chains that demand…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Asset Intensive, Oil & Gas, Process Manufacturing, Strategy
Why Adopt ISO Standards for Asset Management? Here’s Why, and How.
ERP Podcast Series from IFS

ISO standards are a lot of things. Specifications for products and services. A third party stamp of approval for quality,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Creativity & Innovation, Strategy
IFS in the Hall of Fame

IFS is among the top ten of Sweden’s best workplaces for the fifth year in a row. This post explains why!

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| | Estimated reading time: 6 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, IFS Labs, Mobility, Research, Strategy
The Making and Breaking of the Internet of Things
Industry 4.0

2014 will go down in history as the year when the Internet of Things (IoT) hype peaked. Thus the interesting question becomes what will happen next? Will IoT follow the usual pattern of a set-back due to overinflated expectations, only to return later as widely adopted part of our lives? Or will IoT be the exception that goes directly from hype to use?

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| | Estimated reading time: 1 minute | Business Technology, Strategy
PODCAST: IFS’ Cloud Strategy Explained by CEO Alastair Sorbie

Financial results calls can be tearfully boring. But check out what IFS CEO Alastair Sorbie said about cloud ERP on the Q1 2014 IFS results call.

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
New NEC Case Study Illustrates the Benefits of Collaborative Working
NEC

One of IFS’s most successful business partnerships is with NEC Corporation, the Japanese multinational provider of IT services and products,…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Mobility, Research, Strategy
UK Enterprise Mobility – The Current State of Play

Can the enterprise provide access to corporate data while retaining control over access from multiple devices, over some of which it has limited control? Is the ROI worth the effort and cost entailed in securing mobile access? And what are enterprises doing today to address these key issues? We asked 200 CIOs in the UK for their attitudes.

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Events, Strategy
Why did IFS sponsor the IBU World Cup Biathlon?

Multi-sport Olympic events are perhaps the toughest. Not only does the competitor need to be highly skilled in more than…

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| | Estimated reading time: 5 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Strategy
Don’t Listen to Your Customers…Only

The traditional way to collect market intelligence is to interact with your customers. But, if you are looking for pioneer innovations, you have to increase the involvement of your employees and you even need to expand the source of intelligence outside your company’s payroll list.

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Creativity & Innovation, Strategy
Radical Innovations Become Incremental—Always

In the software industry, we like to outline business dream scenarios. But that is the easy part. I prefer to talk about how to get there. What is your better, safer path to innovation? I think IFS can offer a quicker, safer path to innovation than our competition can, please let me explain how.

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| | Estimated reading time: 1 minute | Asset Intensive, Service, Strategy
Podcast — Corporate Culture, RCM and EAM Software

According to maintenance and reliability guru Carlo Odoardi, the primary barrier to successful enterprise asset management (EAM) software and reliability…

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