The Cable industry has seen a number of transformations over the last few years. We have seen Cable MSOs go from having warehouse management with significant CPE theft and painful reconciliation processes to Hub and Spoke distribution systems with faster yet more accurate serialized reconciliations. The cable industry continues to grow and transform beyond warehouse [...]
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The New Era of Cable Asset Management
For the last several decades the focus of cable operations has centered around the movement and tracking of customer premise equipment (CPE) in and out of warehouses. As a result of their enormous growth, Cable Multi-System Operators (MSO)s have significant asset management challenges. 10 Cable Asset Management Challenges Some of the more notable Cable MSO [...]
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EAM Systems Can Help Prevent Your Brand From Dying
Every year, Wall Street analysts take a look at some global icons and place a few on a list of companies or brands expected to go out of business in the near future. More often than not, a low expectation of survival is a result of poor management that has led to a failure to [...]
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Is Waiting Until Equipment Breaks Good Asset Management
When we elect local government officials, we hope that they will make good long term decisions for the cities and towns that we live in. In an era of continual budget crises, this hope means that the intelligent long term care of municipal assets is not being sacrificed for immediate political gains. Run to Failure [...]
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Newton’s 3rd Law of Work Requests
Let’s face it, we have all been in a situation where the temperature is either too warm or too cold. One person’s comfort zone is another person’s misery. But what happens when getting the temperature adjusted turns into a maintenance management nightmare? Why Maintenance Management Goes Crazy In some offices, the temperature can be adjusted [...]