Back in the day, whenever I had to make a deposit at the bank, I’d have to drive there, wait in line at the drive thru, and hand my signed check over to the bank attendant.

Now that my bank has an app, I’ve saved at least 15 minutes each time I would’ve had to travel to the physical bank branch. I love the convenience of depositing checks into my account with the snap of a picture from my mobile device!  What used to take minutes now takes seconds, and for me, time is money.

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As the Administrative Services Manager for Alston & Bird, I support our nine office locations in the areas of purchasing, quality control, document production, travel, and courier services. We ship out hundreds of packages of legal documents on a daily basis pertaining to corporate, medical, contracts, and briefs. And all of those documents are critical – we have to ensure that they are delivered to the right person and the right place at the right time. No surprises.

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In preparation for our upcoming Santa visit, my 5 year old said, “I can’t decide what to ask for – a tablet or an e-reader!” When I was 5, I was likely hoping for a Strawberry Shortcake doll or a Cabbage Patch kid. Technology in all realms – whether receiving it as a gift or using it to power business – makes the holiday season, and it’s always an important role at UPS.

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Dave Barnes was recently honored by The Enterprise CIO Forum as a Transformational CIO who has demonstrated clear and tangible leadership qualities in the strategic use of IT to transform an organization.

Dave participated in a video interview to discuss emerging information technologies with greatest potential to transform a company looking out over the next 3-5 years.

Dave Barnes was recently honored by The Enterprise CIO Forum as a Transformational CIO who has demonstrated clear and tangible leadership qualities in the strategic use of IT to transform an organization.

Dave participated in a video interview to discuss how to boost the view of IT within the organization and the value of IT as an enabler of business goals.

Watch the first video in this series on Business and IT Transformation.

Dave Barnes was recently honored by The Enterprise CIO Forum as a Transformational CIO who has demonstrated clear and tangible leadership qualities in the strategic use of IT to transform an organization.

Dave participated in a video interview to discuss business and IT transformation and how IT serves to transform business for growth.

Ever since I was a little girl I remember watching the summer and winter Olympics with my family.  It helped me understand that with talent and a lot of hard work many athletes see their Olympic dreams come true.  Not only that, I learned the names of countries that I did not even know existed -Azerbaijan, Slovenia and Uruguay just to name a few.

UPS has been hard at work too.  We now electronically service even more customer’s global shipping needs on ups.com.  Our recent country technology expansion of our calculate transits times, rates, shipping and tracking applications to over 55 new countries will reduce manual processes previously in place.   

Here are a couple of ways UPS technology makes things at the Olympics run smoother.

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Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, which means millions of people will hit the nation’s back roads and highways en route to vacation destinations. In fact, AAA reports that an additional 500,000 cars will hit the road this Memorial Day weekend compared to last year although many will stay closer to home. Stop and go traffic, poor vehicle maintenance and cars laden with vacation gear can reduce fuel economy significantly.

With 100,000 drivers on the road throughout the world, we have mastered the art and science of fuel conservation. Via a combination of technology and driver behavior, UPS avoided driving more than 63.5 million miles in one year with an associated emissions avoidance of 68,000 metric tonnes.

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On Wednesday, UPS Customer Solutions president Jim Coughlan spoke to attendees of the Supply Chain in Action executive forum taking place near Phoenix. The participants were corporate logistics managers from Fortune 1000 companies, as well as academicians and students from universities with logistics programs.

Jim took part in a conversation with other business leaders addressing a range of topics from supply chain practices and trends to how online commerce impacts the global economy. According to comScore, U.S. retail e-commerce spending reached a record $161 billion in 2011.  And Goldman Sachs forecasts e-commerce to be nearly $1 trillion by the end of next year. Before he left, I asked Jim for his thoughts about e-commerce.

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UPS has recently begun its global deployment of the next generation handheld devices you see our drivers carry, also known as the DIAD V.

The DIAD V features ground-breaking communications technology that enables on-the-fly switching between cellular carriers independent of cellular technology. This means that the DIAD V can automatically jump to another cellular carrier if the preferred carrier’s signal is lost. Read More »