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Demonstrating the ROI of FSQ Digitization

One of the great challenges of Food Safety and Quality professionals is connecting what they do to the bottom line of the company, especially when they are advocating for new tools and capabilities. We have discussed this briefly before in an earlier blog post. While FSQ is vital to the success of every business that works with food, it is not a profit generator or a competitive advantage. There is also a natural and deep-seated conservatism in tinkering with what already works among the people responsible for safeguarding what we eat and drink. All this adds up to it being…

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How Does Edge Computing Fit into the Larger Digital Revolution?

We write a lot about digital transformations on this blog. We also talk about it a great deal in our podcast episodes, and the speaker faculties of our events always have a lot to say about it too. I sometimes worry that there’s not a lot left to say in this space without getting into specifics that by their very nature start excluding people. No one case study or example can cover everything or speak to everyone, right? Then this morning I was reading something about Edge Computing, and it occurred to me while I have heard people talk about…

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A Checklist for Successful Digital Transformations

I’m a copywriter. I love synonyms. When there’s more than one way to say a thing, it gives me options to talk about the same ideas and concepts different ways without repeating myself too often. The Digital Revolution, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, or The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has been a boon for business copywriters. It has been less of a boon for the people responsible for effectively delivering on its promises. Now that may seem unfair at first. Enormous corporate empires and entire professions have risen in the last few decades on the promise…

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