Time for Leadership
April 1, 2004—There’s no question in my mind that only a small percentage of companies will reap all the enormous potential benefits of RFID technology. Most other companies will achieve incremental savings and improvements in efficiencies. And a few laggards will bungle their implementation so badly, or wait so long before deploying,
that they’ll go out of business.
What will separate the few from the many? Leadership.
In this issue’s case study, Dick Cantwell, the VP leading Gillette’s RFID efforts, talks about how critical the support of his company’s chairman, James Kilts, has been to the project (see Gillette Sharpens Its Edge). Kilts doesn’t want just to meet Wal-Mart’s mandate; he’s striving to achieve breakthrough benefits from RFID in the supply chain. His vision is to use RFID to create a “structured process” that will enable Gillette to achieve “results that are not predictable based on past experiences.”
Gillette has been a great company with great brands and products for the past 100 years. Kilts is working to sustain that greatness for another century by transforming the way his company gets its products to market and by providing its retail customers with world-class service. He has a strategy that’s guiding the way Gillette deploys RFID technology.
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What will separate the few from the many? Leadership.
In this issue’s case study, Dick Cantwell, the VP leading Gillette’s RFID efforts, talks about how critical the support of his company’s chairman, James Kilts, has been to the project (see Gillette Sharpens Its Edge). Kilts doesn’t want just to meet Wal-Mart’s mandate; he’s striving to achieve breakthrough benefits from RFID in the supply chain. His vision is to use RFID to create a “structured process” that will enable Gillette to achieve “results that are not predictable based on past experiences.”
Gillette has been a great company with great brands and products for the past 100 years. Kilts is working to sustain that greatness for another century by transforming the way his company gets its products to market and by providing its retail customers with world-class service. He has a strategy that’s guiding the way Gillette deploys RFID technology.
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