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WSJ AI Top 10

The Wall Street Journal recently recognized Zebra Technologies as a global Top 10 company for AI Readiness. Earning a spot next to major tech innovators validates our strategic focus on AI for the frontline of business.

Your People, Not Your Platforms, Will Unlock AI’s True Potential

A striking paradox is unfolding in boardrooms worldwide. Companies are investing heavily in AI, yet a recent Hoover Institution study found over 80% of them report no meaningful productivity impact.

Winning Together: How We Equip Our Partners to Change the Game

When we work together with our partners, colleagues, and technology experts, we feel a powerful sense of community and shared purpose.

Unburdening Clinicians and Harmonizing Care Delivery: A Q&A on Zebra’s Orchestrated Care

Healthcare professionals today navigate immense pressure. Disconnected systems and administrative burdens often pull their focus from the critical work of patient care.

Winning Together: How Partnership Fuels Our Shared Success

Bringing our partners together from across Latin America for our Channel Partner Summit always creates a unique and powerful reminder that our greatest achievements happen when we work in concert toward a common goal.

What Our Ride at NRF Says About the Future of Retail

If you attended the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show this year, you might have seen a few eye-catching cars navigating the busy streets of New York, wrapped in the iconic Zebra stripes and featuring our name alongside our latest acquisition, Elo.

Beyond the Drop Test: Why True Ruggedness is Your Smartest Investment

In today's fast-paced digital economy, the frontline of business pulses with activity.

Remembering Ed Barkan: A Visionary, Innovator, and Friend

It is with deep sadness and immense gratitude that we remember Edward Donald Barkan, Senior Fellow at Zebra Technologies and a true pioneer in Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC). While we mourn his loss, we celebrate a life defined by innovation, inspiration, and humanity.

Driving Intelligent Operations So Organizations Can Be Better Every Day

Today is an important day for Zebra as the company unveils its brand refresh. While our logo hasn’t changed, our new brand platform, “Better Every Day” represents a strategic evolution and tighter alignment with modern technology trends which recognize the impact that automation and AI are having on frontline workflows.

How Leaders Can Build a Stronger Connection with Workers

As the backbone of retail, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation and logistics (T&L) businesses, frontline workers drive results. Yet, according to Korn Ferry, a new study reveals that more than three-quarters (77%) of these workers believe senior leaders fail to understand their daily challenges.

A Closer Look at How AI Changes the Way We Work

As business leaders, we constantly look for ways to streamline operations, empower teams, and deliver better results. If you’ve ever wondered how AI could make your frontline team’s workday smoother, more efficient, and maybe even a little less stressful, the Frontline AI Summit offered some exciting answers. Hosted by Zebra Technologies, this event brought together some of the sharpest minds in the industry to talk about how AI is already transforming operations and what’s next.

Welcome to Conversations with a CNIO: Bridging Healthcare and Technology

Hello, everyone! I’m Kassaundra McKnight-Young, Zebra Technologies’ Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO), and I’m thrilled to introduce Conversations with a CNIO, a podcast dedicated to exploring the intersection of healthcare and technology.

Transforming Patient Care Through Technology

As we mark the last day of National Nurses Week in the U.S., Zebra’s Chief Nursing Information Officer and Healthcare Industry Principal, Kassaundra McKnight-Young offers an inspiring glimpse into the evolving role of technology in healthcare. Transitioning from over 31 years on the frontline, she remains dedicated to enhancing patient care by integrating innovative solutions that empower clinicians. Kassaundra passionately discusses her mission to alleviate the burden on nurses, allowing them to focus more on patient care. She also shares her insights on how healthcare professionals can cultivate skills that drive better outcomes and satisfaction. In addition, Kassaundra provides strategic advice on how to leverage technology effectively, emphasizing the importance of choosing solutions that truly enhance clinical practices and align with broader organizational goals.

Stronger Together: How Zebra’s Channel Leaders See a Collaborative Future

As a communications strategist, I live for a great story. I recently had the distinct pleasure of hearing five incredible ones during a special CRN Women of the Channel podcast.

Your Frontline, Your Future: Insights from Zebra’s Frontline AI Summit

The world is changing fast, and so is your frontline. Whether you’re in retail, manufacturing, transportation and logistics (T&L), or healthcare, you’ve likely felt the pressure to do more with less.

On a Mission to Improve Your Global Supply Chain Operations? So Am I.

It's Deanna's Self's (new) job to steer Zebra’s Global Supply Chain and Repair Operations toward an innovative digital future. More specifically, she will be looking for ways to bridge technology and business in a way that benefits our customers, partners, and employees. But what does that mean in actionable terms? She explains in her latest blog post.

There are So Many Ways to Invest in and Inspire Women. Here are the Ones Inclusion and Diversity Champions Find Most Helpful.

The best part is that many of their suggestions about how to invest in women don’t require money – just effort.

Should You Really Be Using That Mobile Computer or Tablet in Cold (or Freezing) Warehouse, Yard, and Field Environments?

There's a lot more to consider than just the temperature rating when choosing a handheld mobile computer or tablet – or even an RFID reader, barcode scanner, printer, or wearable – for use in cold chains (or cold weather). So, Andre Luecht took the time to detail what other factors influence the performance of technology devices, accessories and supplies in different types of cold settings so that you always make the right choice for your operation the first time.

Is Enough Being Done to Protect the Health and Safety of Football Players and Other Contact Sports Athletes?

Is enough being done to protect the health and safety of football players and other contact sport athletes at all levels of their game? Cognitive scientist (and former NFL tight end) Julius Thomas provided his professional opinion in a recent episode of Chalk Talk. See if you agree with his perspective and advice.

How Zebra Technology Solutions Have Impacted Frontline Workers the Past Decade

Many frontline jobs have become harder to do over the last decade. That’s why we have further accelerated our innovative approach at Zebra since making our largest acquisition 10 years ago. We want to create new ways of working to help make frontline jobs more efficient, impactful, and fulfilling. Learn more about how we're driving advancements that help frontline workers.

Why Your “Loss Prevention” Efforts Aren’t Working

Do you know exactly when, where and why losses are happening within your operations? If not, it will be hard to figure out how to prevent them, fix inventory distortion, and eliminate friction within your operations. So, let’s talk about loss detection.

Are You Putting Enough Thought Into Your Software Decisions?

If you’re only thinking about which mobile applications you need to develop or download to support workers, they may not be getting what they really need to be effective at their jobs. That's one of the reasons why you need to put more thought into your software decisions. Find out the other reasons why you need to look closer at the software you're running across your operations.

How to Find the Right Stats to Support Your Business or Marketing Strategy

The National Football League knows how to collect, decode, and harness data fast – and it’s having a huge impact on its brand and bottom line. These are the best practices you can extract from its Next Gen Stats initiative and apply to support your business or marketing strategy.

Zebra CEO Says “Industry Recognition Reflects Our Incredible Company Culture”

Zebra CEO Bill Burns highlights some notable accomplishments of Zebra employees, partners, and customers in his latest blog post about the impact of culture on a company.

What a ‘Scan’ Should Look Like – and Look For – If You Want to Stop Shrink at the POS

The traditional 1D barcode scanner isn’t going to help you see and intervene when losses occur at the point of sale (POS). Nor will it reduce the number of interventions required by retail store associates or restaurant workers. But retail leader Mark Thomson has seen something that will. He explains in his latest blog post.

One Million Hours Worked, Zero Safety Incidents: Here’s How We’ve Kept Our Manufacturing Team Healthy and Productive for So Long

Sometimes it takes more than “industry standard” best practices and policies to protect your people. These are the extra efforts that have helped us reach a rarely achieved workplace safety milestone: one million hours worked with zero workplace safety incidents. 

Zebra’s Chief Supply Chain Officer: “It’s Time to Get Back to Basics”

In her first interview since becoming Zebra's Chief Supply Chain Officer, Tami Froese talks about her disciplined approach to collaboration, execution and performance measurement – and what supply chain “resiliency” really means.

Your Organization’s Cybersecurity Practices are Probably Not Protecting Your Customers’ Privacy

Privacy isn’t born out of traditional cybersecurity tactics. It must be treated as a separate but equal action, according to Dr. Ann Cavoukian, creator of the international “Privacy by Design” framework. Find out what you should be doing differently to protect your customers and reduce your company's liability when handling customer data..

Happy 60th Birthday to the GUI: What’s Next for the Graphical User Interface?

There’s no doubt the GUI will remain a staple in our daily life. But will the GUI forever be as we know it today? Find out why one UI/UX designer doesn’t think so.

Make These Changes to Make Your Home Health Operations More Efficient

It’s not helping you as a home health provider or your patients if you’re “making do” with manual processes or “finding workarounds” when your tech doesn’t work. So, let’s get you set up correctly.

The Best First Step in the “Retailization of Healthcare”

Nurses need to be at patients’ bedsides delivering care today, not at computers trying to figure out who’s available to work tomorrow. This can help.

Why It’s Wrong to Think of RFID as a Barcode Replacement

The RFID tag is not the next evolution of the barcode. It is technology you should treat as complementary to barcodes. Here’s why.

A Look at Labor: Are You Giving Too Much Credit to Technology?

No matter how much technology enables to run your business more efficiently, people are still the ones responsible for your success (and developing the technology that allows you to work in new, better ways so that success becomes possible). So, it's time to give credit where credit is due - and make sure we're thinking about technology in the context of human impact.

Which Technology Helped Foodstuff’s Grocery Store Staff the Most?

New Zealand grocery company, Foodstuffs South Island, takes a unique approach in finding a new mobile technology solution.

Why a Mindset Change is Needed to Drive Progress against Healthcare Compliance, Patient Care and Telehealth Priorities

You may need to change how you think about, choose, and implement technology for your healthcare system to make progress against these your patient care, compliance and telehealth priorities. Here's why.

Why You Should Be Gifting More Books | Zebra Blog and Podcast

As UNESCO calls out, “Literacy empowers and liberates people.” And there are millions of people around the world whose lives could be vastly improved if they just had access to one book. That's why Zebra's Therese Van Ryne sat down with Kristen Daniels, Executive Director, Bernie's Book Bank, to talk about ways we can all make books more accessible to those who need them.

How You Should Be Leveraging Machine Learning Operations to Bring AI into Production

The more mainstream AI becomes in business, the more important it becomes for developers and engineers to adopt best practices – and for technology buyers and IT managers to understand those practices. So, we asked an AI expert to share the practices he and his team use to bring AI into production, including the use of ML Ops.

It’s Shocking How Well RFID Pioneer Mario Cardullo Predicted the Future

Dr. Mario Cardullo knew how valuable RFID would be in 2023, even before his passive RFID transponder was patented in 1973! Find out how much of his original business plan is now integral to your business plan.

Do You Have the Right Amount of RAM?

How much memory do you really need to keep your mobile device from crashing? We ask a mobility expert to explain the (semi-simple) math you should do before buying a device that you’ll be using for business purposes.

Why Your Mobile Device Could Soon “Know It All”

Google and Zebra are pulling out all the stops around mobility (and AI and AR) so you and your employees can source the info needed to more confidently do your jobs and secure more wins. Hear what’s unfolding.

Is There Really a Difference Between Private 4G and Private 5G Wireless Network Performance? Or Private Wireless and Wi-Fi Network Performance?

Ericsson and Zebra mobility experts answer important questions in this new roundtable discussion, including where private wireless technology delivers the most value and the ROI you can expect.

Do the Benefits of a BYOD Workforce Mobility Strategy Outweigh the Risks?

It could be a win-win to let employees use personal devices on the clock. However, more businesses are starting to backtrack on BYOD. Why? Hear both sides of the story.