Forget Strategy, RFID is the Way to Go

I admit to being a bit confused. I was recently directed to the Bain Management Tools survey, which looks at around 25 management tools, and asks organisations to rate them on both the importance of the tool, and their satisfaction with it.

KM comes out middling, I guess. It ranks 8th in terms of importance, but 22nd in terms of satisfaction. This is obviously of concern, and needs to be addressed. Maybe once KM can be defined, it might stand a better chance of meeting expectations.

In this survey list, though, was a little bit of bizarreness. Amongst other leadership tools like corporate strategy, CRM, Six Sigma, TQM, and all the other usual suspects was this little guy:

RFID

Now, as in love as I am with gadgetry and technology, I cannot come up with any way that RFID can be justified as a management tool in the same class as these others. Am I missing something here? Or have I just being going to the wrong sort of management meetings?