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A Reading List for Tough Times

New books covering RFID promise to help readers navigate their enterprises through troubled economic waters.


By John Edwards

Jan. 26, 2009—Radio frequency identification keeps pushing forward, even in today's highly challenging economic environment, embracing new technologies and expanding into fresh applications and deployments. The technology is helping adopters streamline operations and slash costs at a time when discovering new approaches to saving money and boosting customer service has become a high priority for most enterprises.

With many managers now reluctant to lavish funds on an outside consultant for advice, or to draw in-house staff members away from pressing work to conduct RFID research, a book offers a relatively inexpensive and simple way to learn how radio tracking and monitoring technologies can help save time, resources and money.

Here are four recently published titles that can help businesses discover the various ways in which RFID can be used as a recession-fighting tool. These volumes provide insight and advice on topics such as supply chain management, environmental monitoring and business-process optimization.

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