| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology
Read this if you’re still managing project cost control in an Excel spreadsheet

If you manage any project that lasts more than two months, it’s normal business practice to have a monthly project…

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
What an article written in 1960 means for 21st Century business agility
Theodore Levitt

What business are you really in? Today, you may be in the aerospace components business. Or the power generation business….

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Business Technology, Events
The Beauty Lies in The Simplicity

This post shares a few examples of IFS Quick Reports created by the American company CDF.
The beauty of this solution lies in the simplicity when it comes to extract, present and share data in an easy way.

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| | Estimated reading time: 4 minutes | Manufacturing, Strategy
How to Close the Manufacturing Skills Gap
Brompton Bicycle

The global economic crisis has had a significant effect on the manufacturing sector, with the prolonged Eurozone slump impacting demand…

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| | Estimated reading time: 2 minutes | Asset Intensive, Energy, Utilities & Resources
How does IFS stay close to its energy and utility customers?

It has been 30 years or so since IFS got its start in the energy and utilities (E&U) industry. We…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
Is implementing ERP like dipping your business in concrete?
ERP like dipping your business in concrete business agility

It is an old joke, that may sometimes target specific software vendors, that implementing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software or…

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| | Estimated reading time: 3 minutes | Business Technology, Strategy
Business Agility Lessons from BMW and Corvette (kind of)

Whether you are a dyed-in-the-wool auto enthusiast or just someone like me who has a more spirited driving style, you…

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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: 4 minutes | Aerospace & Defense
Modular Technology vs Big Bang – Delivering an agile aerospace and defense organization

When Gartner speaks, we all tend to listen. So when Gartner characterized 2014 as the dawn of post-modern ERP – where the enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite is de-constructed into a more federal, “loosely-coupled” ERP environment – I not only listened, but agreed. Because this is exactly the trend we are seeing in the market for enterprise software in the demanding aerospace and defense software industry.

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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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