Articles by Jim West
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Get Ready For Retail Deployment As A Service
9/16/2016
No longer an isolated, occasional event, technology deployment occurs almost continuously now, and retailers should be thinking about changing the way they plan, budget, manage, and support deployment cycles in this new world.
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Beyond Deployment: A New Mindset
9/15/2016
From a project perspective, deployment looks like a tactical, time-limited event. From a strategic standpoint, however, it plays a key role throughout the process of customer-centric technology implementation. For long-term success, smart retailers will weave deployment into their overall technology strategy with the right partner early in the planning process.
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Deploying The Internet Of Things: Don’t Make The Same Mistakes
12/14/2015
Compared with the coming IoT networks, wireless and computer networks are relatively straightforward, and yet their performance is routinely hobbled by haphazard deployment. IoT networks are more complex, heterogeneous, and intraoperative than their predecessors. Deployment experts, whether in-house or on contract, need to be involved early in the planning process to help optimize device testing, physical placement, data security, power consumption, and efficient bandwidth usage.