The seminal management book In Search of Excellence explains why companies such as Wal-Mart, Metro and Kimberly-Clark are pushing ahead with RFID plans.
The news that T3Ci has analyzed more than a billion tag reads indicates that volumes of tagged goods in the retail/CPG supply chain are starting to rise.
While the ratification of the standard represents a milestone for EPCglobal and EPC adoption, don't expect it to lead to mass adoption of EPC technologies overnight.