RFID Creates Value Only When Physical Reads Become Trusted Business Events

Executive thesis. RFID creates little enterprise value when it produces more raw reads. Value appears when physical observations become trusted business events that update operational state.
A read is not yet a business event
RFID can generate an enormous volume of observations, but a supply chain application does not need to know that a tag was seen repeatedly by an antenna. It needs to know that an item was received, inducted, located, counted, picked, shipped, or returned. The value of RFID t