In the apparel manufacturing industry, financial and personnel resources are strained to almost cripple the decision making process. When IT purchases are finally approved, there is a resounding demand from upper management for time savings and increased efficiency, yet our studies far too often indicate a deep, dark secret. A major Canadian retailer implements a […]
Apparel Manufacturing Workers Diaries – The lives and wages of garment workers The Garment Worker Diaries is a yearlong research project led by Microfinance Opportunities in collaboration with Fashion Revolution and supported by C&A Foundation. We are collecting data on the lives of apparel manufacuring workers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India. Fashion Revolution will use the […]
On March 25th our friends at the Canadian Apparel Federation were nice enough to sponsor a Webinar on our behalf, and we couldn’t have been happier with the turnout. Over 40+ people a wide variety of business sectors, from small Shoe manufacturers to big-name Fashion designers turned up to see how Timereaction‘s unique Workflow Management and Collaboration […]
Social business must be connected to the day-to-day workings in order to succeed. Technology alone will never be the answer, but must be woven into our daily work flow. Most of the heavy lifting within a company is done by the two extremes, powerful legacy software or manual systems including spreadsheets , neither of which […]
We all agree that we are working in a knowledge economy and organizations are striving to create an empowered workforce, with the in-house knowledge capital being critical for a company’s operations and performance, not to mention innovation and competitive advantage. Organizations are focusing on how to improve business operations, bring down costs of servicing customers […]
Why do companies invest in new technologies? We do it because we believe that new technologies make our lives easier and our businesses more successful. But technology alone is not enough to bring success. Customers want fast solutions to their problems no matter whether the application is hosted in the cloud or not. Your customers […]
I read a great article today by Luis Suarez entitled The Social Enterprise – Welcome to the Era of Intrapreneurship! that I thought I would share. “An era, where thanks to the Social Web, whether internal or external, or both, knowledge workers, for the first time ever, are now in charged of their own productivity, of their […]
Email is a great communication tool enabling you to get in touch with business colleagues at the touch of a button. However, email isn’t a collaboration tool. Anyone who has tried to collate feedback from numerous colleagues on a document over email knows how painful the process can be. No one seems to remember which […]
UFO Jeans Canada UFO Jeans is a Canadian apparel manufacturing company established in 1990 with an in-house design, production, and administration team of 9. They have partnered with a manufacturing unit in Bangladesh with a dedicated staff of 35 that develops and manufactures approximately 4 million units annually via their 5 factories. Problem: The well-seasoned […]