ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Evolving technology, burgeoning job sites, a shrinking labor pool and the widening skills gap are just a few of the reasons hiring is a lot tougher than it used to be. According to DHI Group , hiring in the health services takes 49 days, while construction industry’s time-to-hire is the shortest at about 12 days. Not anymore.

Process 52

Process Metrics Human Resources Software 52

Strategy Driven

MARCH 14, 2014

My lifelong curiosity with listening was piqued to the point of finally writing this book when reflecting on a seemingly simple conversation I heard at the tail end of a meditation retreat: Transportation Guy: “You can either leave your luggage near the back of the go-cart and we’ll take it down the hill for you, or you can bring it down yourself.”.

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How To Transportation Learning-by-Doing Creativity 65

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT). The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. Systemic problems that affect everyone but are beyond the ability of any one person to solve require collaboration skills.

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Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Administration/management. Transportation. Technology. Constructive feedback? You gotta know the business. You gotta have business savvy. Can you organize things? Account for things? Control things? Conserve things? Can you use the machines and devices and programs that do these things? Facilities. Communication.

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Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

The threat to public health is the top concern, of course, but the situation also has widespread business implications: it's disrupting everything from rail transportation to manufacturing activities, including the auto industry. For managers, these are especially important questions.

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Crisis Power Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. At Costco, another good jobs retailer, store managers are empowered to display merchandise and provide input into the merchandising system. Ability to Implement New Technologies.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

In the oil industry, for example, what used to be weeks of inspection work now takes just days, thanks to drone-based thermal imaging and gas “sniffer” technology to inspect oil rigs and pipelines. And one of retail’s largest players, Walmart, is testing how drones could help improve warehouse inventory management.

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Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 30, 2021

Packaging and transporting the product is as important as manufacturing it. Part by part construction- The final step in 3D printing is when the printer builds layer by layer of the object. But with 3D printing’s additive technology, we can use as much as we want. Therefore, the CAD file type is converted to STL format.

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Industry Chemicals Objective Brand 88

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Modern leadership may be as much about facilitating strategy through hiring, training, technology, and focused tasks and goals, as it is about face-to-face interaction. Clear and meaningful tasks, goals, and technology tools that support the organization''s direction can supplement interpersonal leadership. Nucor is the largest U.S.

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Skills Leadership CFO Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2017

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Sponsored by DXC Technology. Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks.

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Planning Agility System Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

As a city dweller, the need to transport our dog is starting to feel like the only thing preventing me from ditching our station wagon. What I’ve learned is that it is rare for firms to succeed in transitioning from the present to an entirely different future; typically, the leader in one technology is not the leader in the next.

Industry 8

Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Yet even though SKF has a century-long track record of keeping the wheels of industry turning, this new vision of bearings with brains by no means assures that SKF will prosper in the changeover in technology represented by the internet of things, in which every conceivable object can become a node on the net. That lag poses dangers.

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Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

“Expect delays” has become the recurring theme of our transportation system. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Since 1975, just 41 new runways were planned, and only 25 were actually built, each with an average construction time of about 11 years! Insight Center. Compress transit times.

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Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

He applied his specialized expertise to help this team evaluate the impact of construction-induced vibration on surrounding public transportation infrastructure. I never realized that we have behavioral economists on staff who can apply psychological and cognitive research to help clients with technology implementation projects.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

But if corporations join the public sector in recognizing that this problem is a convergence of societal, economic, and cultural factors and apply good management practices to address it, we can bend the curve. On one level, they need to learn and implement basic business essentials such as financial management and human resource development.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

Community and social media managers of 2011, please try to contain your amusement at the idea that 1000 posts per day represented an unmanageable volume.) Some say the main driver was the cost of transporting all the data involved in a smallish number of highly antagonistic, not very constructive conversations.

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Media Cost Content Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

So it is with high growth firms: studies of these firms show that their growth occurs in sudden, largely unforeseeable spurts for reasons ranging from market shifts, buyouts, recapitalizations, new management and sometimes luck. High growth ventures are more prevalent in basic industries than they are in the stereotypical technology sectors.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Policies Incubator Transportation 8

ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 10, 2022

Evolving technology, burgeoning job sites, a shrinking labor pool and the widening skills gap are just a few of the reasons hiring is a lot tougher than it used to be. According to DHI Group , hiring in the health services takes 49 days, while construction industry’s time-to-hire is the shortest at about 12 days. Not anymore.

Process 52

Process Metrics Human Resources Software 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. But most successful companies used electricity and motors to reinvent their existing businesses, whether in manufacturing, transportation, or construction. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Insight Center. Human capital.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Achieving Global, Low-Cost, Class-A Construction. Nominally Class-A construction that costs us $200 per square foot here in the US, we can "build" for $25 per square foot in India.

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Suri Construction Class EBITDA 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Over the past few decades, not only has NASA delivered crucial technologies for society, such as water filtration systems, satellite-based search-and-rescue, and UV coating on eyeglasses, it has also evolved its dominant logic and business model. Competing nations have also been expanding their space exploration efforts.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2024

The Impact of Online Auctions on the Heavy Equipment Industry The implications of online auctions on the heavy equipment industry are extensive, influencing everything from pricing strategies to inventory management. Moreover, logistical complexities are related to transporting large, heavy machinery following the sale.

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Due Diligence Participative Price Efficiency 108

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Originally gaining notoriety as the data technology underneath the cryptocurrency called bitcoin, today blockchain technology is expanding its reach far beyond the confines of currency and tackling issues involving transactional social trust throughout the world. Powering the Supply Chain with Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Dr. Burns' career has spanned scientific research; issues management; science and technology leadership and business management. Today, Stephanie A. Stephanie A. Burns, Ph.D.,

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Govindarajan Six Sigma Energy Transportation 15

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management. This is Canada's No.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

A big reason is technological complexity. Inadequate transport infrastructure is the biggest impediment to the development of India’s manufacturing capacity. Availability and challenges of managing labor. Why are supply chains structured this way with tiers of component makers who assemble progressively larger pieces?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8