Wal-Mart: IT Team of the Year

Filed in archive Case Studies on December 16, 2004

InformationWeek (through its RFID Insights newsletter/site) has designated Wal-Mart's Information Technology department the "IT Team of the Year."

There's a rather longish, in-depth profile of the 2,400 member IT organization. One of the things I found so interesting about this profile is how small the RFID Team is compared to the entire organization.

Here you have an IT organization that has more employees than the vast majority of businesses in the United States. Yet, the RFID team within Wal-Mart is only 8 people (originally 4).

From all the press hype, you would have thought hundreds of people were working on the RFID initiative within Wal-Mart, but not so. Clearly, other parts of the Wal-Mart's IT division have helped the RFID team, but still the numbers are pretty interesting....

Read the whole article here.