Recovery Continues Across the Manufacturing Sector
Orders of new manufacturing technology totaled $590 million in September 2021, according to the latest U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by AMT –...
Why We Misunderstand Strategy
Strategy is a term bantered around a bit too much. We apply it to almost everything within business to subconsciously create an air of...
Why Your Data Isn’t Helping You Make Decisions
We all like to have data to support our decisions. But we tend to look at this myopically - a decision needs to be...
Configuration Lifecycle Management for Sustainability
When today’s consumers are evaluating their options, they’re figuring sustainability and the product’s carbon footprint into the evaluation process. A report by IBM and...
Getting Your Team to Think and Act More Strategically
Organizational leaders often talk about strategy, but when it comes down to it, strategic thinking is rarely done. Leaders are often pulled back into...
Marketing for Manufacturers: Let Your Customers be your Marketers
When I moved into the Communications role at ANCA, an Australian manufacturing company, I anticipated our marketing activity, marketing for manufacturers, would be straightforward,...
How Bad Inventory Management Can Impact Your Firm’s Organizational Performance
Bad inventory management can cost your company tremendous amounts of time, money and, ultimately, its chances of success. It can heavily impact any business’...
Diversification – Becoming A Master of All Trades
“You must be diversified enough to survive bad times, so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off in the...
Want to be Data-Driven? It’s Not About the Tech
Executives say that cultural challenges — not technological ones — represent the biggest impediment around data initiatives.
In a 2021 survey from NewVantage Partners, 92.2...
Weighing Remotely
One of the main challenges of truck weighing is keeping track of and properly utilizing scale data. There are numerous reasons to keep track...
