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Mario Harik and the art of moving the pieces
XPO’s chairman and CEO began by building software. His education in freight has taken him from Brad Jacobs’s living room to the loading dock, where a good idea still has to survive the next shipment.
XPO bought the empire. Then it fixed the freight.
After two major spin-offs, XPO turned its attention to the unglamorous business of getting freight there intact. The lesson comes wrapped in ratchet straps, spare capacity and a rather expensive change of mind.
Logility and the expensive art of guessing less
Cheese can wait eight years. A supply chain decision usually cannot. Logility sells the forecasting, inventory and planning software that helps businesses reconcile the two.
Ekahau and the business hiding inside the business
A tool built to help locate things became a business devoted to making Wi-Fi work. Ekahau’s story runs from Finnish probability research to a warehouse where a walk can change the network plan.
The Network That Learned to Take Another Road
When a branch office has two internet links, the question is no longer which one is primary. VeloCloud built a business around choosing the better path, packet by packet - then carried that idea through VMware, Broadcom and, finally, Arista.
OSC Top Solutions Group Wants Your Network to Earn Its Keep
The Colombian integrator grew by following its customers across borders. Now it is selling a harder promise: making the networks, security systems and people behind critical infrastructure work together.
Bigleaf Networks Bet That Your Internet Should Fix Itself
The Oregon networking company built a business around an unglamorous promise: when a circuit coughs, the cloud applications, phone calls and card payments should keep moving before anyone opens a ticket.