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Ripple effect of this pandemic on the future of tech business

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You often learn what you want by seeing what you do not want to see, God knows no one wanted to see us conscripted on dealing with our "unexpected" guest, Covid-19, pandemics kill business, recessions ruin business to say they have a silver lining is a step too far. But this unwanted circumstance has afforded businesses, government and consumers time to think about who they are and what they really want and desire from their distinct standpoints, the interesting thing is the interrelatedness and interdependency of these thoughts. Governments have had the inefficiencies of their governance and policies laid bare for all to see, consumers are contemplating if they really need to continue patronizing physical outlets after the pandemic or just stick to the pandemic-made-compulsory online shipping for even the least of their basic needs and thirdly, businesses, its executives and supremo are taking this time to look inward to re-engineer their purpose and goals going forward, som...

Need for more incorporation of Vendor-managed inventory strategy in modern businesses

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“Curiosity kills a cat, but cats be happy, for satisfaction raises the dead”, several organizations, startups and businesses will and are endlessly, curiously and constantly trying to get innovative ways to mitigate risks and be more cost effective, with competition getting astronomically fiercer by the day, every trick to get that extra edge and advantage in the market must be played. Vendor-managed inventory is a strategy that transfers the management of inventories and order processing from the buyer of a product to the supplier of the product, this strategy is not only cost effective, it is both operation effective and mitigates risks by transference, in simple terms this strategy allows vendors or suppliers to own inventories until they are sold by their clients, the vendors in the supplier chain manages their own products in their clients’ warehouses or stores, for example if a business has ten vendors in its supply chain, each of these ten vendors is hence contractually responsi...

Business requirement, Functionality requirements and Non-functionality requirements: Their differences, relationship and interdependence

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Error and failure are what's left when we think everything else has been accounted for. Analyzing a business, an analyst needs to fully understand that there is a fine line between these three business concepts, their differences, relationship and interdependence, they need to be understood else confusing them together can lead to business failure in the short, medium and long run. Business Requirements: A business requirement is not just something a system must do. It is something that the business needs to do or have in order to stay in business, take for example a business needs to increase sales, else, it'll run out of business, this a business requirement. It has to be done if not the business may not function properly or wind up for good . A business requirement is often less dynamic; it doesn't change often. Functionality Requirements: A functional requirement describes how we perform our business processes (or their functionality), how a business intends to achieve ...