While firms have used different business strategies to insulate themselves from the effect of change, CEOs are beginning to recognize the need for their firms to become more agile in detecting and making the changes to strategy, operations, and products. 

Discover the impact of Lean on consumer product manufacturers and gain key tips in implementing successful Lean initiatives across the enterprise. 

This paper discusses why failure happens and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness. 

Read this paper to review the results of a survey that addressed IT's role in the M&A process and the blending and coherence of enterprise system data during M&A activity. 

Project-centric manufacturing business models that involve outsourcing and short product lifecycles expose manufacturers to a number of risks they were not vulnerable to previously. 

ERP software is often criticized for being complex and difficult to use. Read this paper to learn how to evaluate ERP software for usability. 

Infor ERP VISUAL combines affordability and deep functionality, and is ideal for high growth, mixed-mode manufacturers who need a modular solution. Learn why more than 4,000 businesses trust Infor ERP VISUAL to run their operations. 

Infor ERP LN is an advanced, easy-to-use ERP solution that brings together a wide range of business functions to serve the needs of leading discrete and project-based manufacturers in industrial industries. Check out this demo for more details. 

This paper explains each of the seven layers of OSI model, including their functions and their relationships, also it provide with an overview of the network process, which can act as a framework for understanding the details of computer networking. 

Manufacturers must be prepared to recognize impending change as early as possible, assess the potential impact, determine the optimum strategy for dealing with the change, and implement that strategy in the most effective way possible. In this white paper you'll learn 4 steps toward developing chaos-tolerant business processes. 

This whitepaper addresses trends in Enterprie Resource Planning improvements as well as business needs and strengths to assess during vendor selection. Gain insight into the software as a service (SaaS) market and the results from heightened competition. 

In this white paper, explore how organizations are achieving strong returns on investment on their information technologie endeavors and investments by emphasizing user performance.