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How the Rapid Growth of Ecommerce Is Driving Changes in Logistics and Transportation Management

Strategy Driven

Smart devices and wireless connections are now nearly everywhere and have already contributed immensely to the growth of the e-commerce industry. However, for e-commerce businesses, shipping parcels to different locations safely and punctually requires complex planning. This is causing the industry to grow by leaps and bounds.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?