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Out of the Box or Out of the Blue?

Rating 4.00 out of 5

The other week I came across a four letter acronym, which got me perplexed for a moment – OOTB. In situations like this, my instinct is to ask the almighty and omniscient Wikipedia for the correct interpretation. The on-line oracle gave me two options: “Out of the box” or “Out of the blue”. Interestingly, both were relevant to the context at hand, which I thought was quite funny.

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Artificial Intelligence, or just Smart Design?

Rating 4.75 out of 5

Hello, Supply Chain lovers!

 This time, I would like to tell you a story about a recent development made jointly by the customer and the software vendor. I was present and the outcome interested me. Was it AI, or just smart?

Judge for yourself!

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