Guten Tag! (EPC is Alive and Well)
I spent the past few days in Cologne, Germany (photo from room at Hyatt Cologne at left), with the board of a global standards body focused on EPC. Asked to speak on correlations between adoption of the Internet and the potential for EPC, I highlighted the amazing adoption we've seen over the past 10 years of the Web, with e-commerce and other markets far surpassing even the wildest expectations circa 1995. MIT professor/Oat Chief Scientist Sanjay Sarma spoke as well, and gave a rousing talk about the Japanese auto industry's adoption of Six Sigma to overtake the U.S. "BIg 3" automakers, drawing the parallel to EPC and RFID as enablers of similar market shifts - for those who take advantage of them before their competitors. Herein are a few additional thoughts, insights and observations from Cologne.
