Jon Bovit is chief marketing officer with Resilinc, a provider of supply chain management tools.

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From better management of buildings and vehicle fleets, to smarter use of technology, to tighter oversight of the entire supply chain, organizations can mobilize countless tools to help transform how they use energy and other resources.

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Current detection tools using nanotechnology allow high-speed molecular detection of pathogens through analysis of their DNA in a matter of a few minutes where classical detection tools using regular PCR (polymerase chain reaction) would take over six hours.

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The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.

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The Supply Chain Council (SCC) is a global nonprofit organization whose framework, improvement methodology, training, certification and benchmarking tools help member organizations make dramatic, rapid, and sustainable improvements in supply chain performance.

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The group, which varies at times between five and seven volunteers, is creating tools not just for anonymous leaking but also the entire chain of submission and publishing.

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The winners will be the ones able to rethink their positioning in the value chain of their respective industries and to rapidly enable the eco-systems, tools and infrastructure required to execute their new strategy.

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Other important construction tools include the plumb bob, the wrench, the rope and the chain.

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The sales pitch for HMA's 300 physician-recruiters touts tools like the dual-head nuclear medicine cameras at 36 of the chain's hospitals--and the only Gamma Knife in Mississippi.

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