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Retail Tech: What Went Wrong? What's Going Right?
 Retail Tech: What Went Wrong? What's Going Right?

Our annual report on retailers' 2011 systems successes, failures, and spending priorities for the coming year provides a unique look into the state of the industry.

As the economy goes, so goes retail. Sure, in terms of share of GDP, our industry doesn't carry nearly the ground-shaking heft of the fraught-with-trouble government, financial, manufacturing, and real estate sectors. But, when the 46% of our national GDP composed of those collective sectors staggers, we certainly suffer the consequences.

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    Workforce As An Asset
    By Peter DiMaria, president and chief executive officer, Accu-Time Systems, Inc.

    In parts one through three of this four-part series, I wrote about employee self-service (ESS) and how both employers and employees will benefit from instituting ESS in both large and medium sized enterprises. The world has been embracing ESS at an ever-increasing rate. But a new trend has been emerging. There is now a convergence of ESS, time and attendance, absence management, recruitment and on-boarding, and talent management.

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    • Kronos Incorporated

      Kronos helps organizations across a variety of industries manage their most valuable, and expensive, strategic asset — their workforce. How? By giving them the tools and services they need to help them control labor costs. Minimize compliance risk. And improve workforce productivity.

    • Frank Mayer & Associates, Inc.

      Family owned and operated since 1931, FMA is long recognized as a leader in the in-store merchandising industry. With over 75 years of experience in custom point-of-purchase displays we are committed to combining a variety of skilled professionals for each project.

    • Reflexis Systems, Inc.

      Reflexis workforce management/task execution solutions help retailers and their suppliers execute their strategy flawlessly and uncover profit.

    • Accu-Time Systems, Inc.

      Founded in 1991, Accu-Time Systems (ATS) has been a trusted global leader in workforce management, offering state-of-the-art solutions for time and attendance, payroll, and security access. For almost 20 years, Accu-Time Systems has been a global supplier for workforce productivity, planning, human resource data collection, and labor management.

    • Intermec, Inc.

      Perhaps best known as the inventor of the world's most widely used bar code symbology, Intermec today provides supply chain information products, services and systems to companies in hundreds of industries around the world.

    • Ecova

      Ecova is the total energy and sustainability management company whose sole purpose is to see more, save more and sustain more for our clients.

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