Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

They were also very heavy, as they had to withstand the rigors of mostly unpaved roads used by the horse-and-wagon mode of transportation. And as assembly-line technology improved, so too did its speed, which soon became a source of great stress. Though his was not the only automobile company, Henry Ford had some key early insights.

Wilde 241

Wilde Open-book Efficiency Transportation 241

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Take advantage of the military spending with a civil construction company. Equipment leasing can help you gear up for construction projects on Anchorage’s two active military bases.

Press Release 157

Press Release Discount Education Transportation 157

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

Data is the new oil, and as such, you will not achieve much if you do not develop a robust plan for your information technology (IT). When you’re setting up a colocation arrangement, you physically transport your servers to the center. Running a data center calls for you to stay on the bleeding edge of new technology regularly.

Outsourcing 66

Outsourcing Core Competence Operations Efficiency 66

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 2, 2011

In addition, deflation is causing payrolls to be slashed by five percent or more; not just in the bubble categories of construction and finance but also in manufacturing, retail, wholesale, transportation, and information technology.

Long-term 99

Long-term Hotels Transportation Information Technology 99

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.

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.”.

How To 64

How To Transportation Learning-by-Doing Creativity 64

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

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.

Technology 8

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.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. Technology entrepreneurs should be at the table with established companies, elected officials, financiers, and consumers. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue. Citizen voices and votes can encourage action.

Transportation 8

Transportation Wireless Entrepreneur Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries. Today, new transportation vendors like Uber, Lyft, Zipcar, and Grabtaxi are changing our relationship with cars. Information technology, however, is one of those industries. The same shift can be anticipated in transportation. The first is convenience.

Industry 8

Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. but it can be challenging for companies to start getting their feet wet experimenting with this amalgam of technologies, let alone to deploy them at scale. Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 There is a lot of talk about Industry 4.0, One practical example of Industry 4.0

Content 8

Content Chief Technology Officer Health Care Transportation 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

At the recent INNOVEIT event in Brussels, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology launched its Deep Tech Talent Initiative , which aims to provide a million people across the EU with the skills required to function in the deep tech sector in the coming years.

Skills 112

Skills Education Innovation Transportation 112

Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Transportation. Technology. Constructive feedback? Can you use the machines and devices and programs that do these things? Facilities. Communication. Information. People skills. Are you good with people? Do you know really effective ways to listen to people? Give them positive feedback? To encourage them? Inspire them?

Skills 44

Skills Bottom-up Video Blog 44

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.

Industry 82

Industry Chemicals Objective Brand 82

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2013

A San Francisco start-up called Gild has created a program that evaluates and scores software developers on the work they’ve publicly released on the web, Technology Review reports. Should Solar Roads Be the Future of Transportation? It's happening unbeknownst to the programmers and without their permission. Fast Company).

Transportation 8

Transportation Morale Construction Software 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. This will mean hiring the types of data scientists typically found at data-rich technology companies.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Company Outsourcing Analysis 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. Ability to Implement New Technologies. It’s easy to forget that technology rollouts require an engaged frontline. Work currently does not work for millions of Americans.

Merchandising 8

Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 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

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. Nobody told them to do it.

Skills 8

Skills Leadership CFO Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Civic leaders knew the formula for attracting industry: They had to provide financial incentives, a strong transportation system, a solid infrastructure, and community services such as public schools. But technology has started to change that formula. Ranking America’s most future-ready cities. Is your city future ready?

Content 8

Content Human Capital IAS Transportation 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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet compared to great technological inventions of the past, it is also a colossal economic disappointment. The technologies of the past had massive new job creation effects that swamped displacement effects. Automobiles created suburbia and the home construction boom that followed. I’m talking about jobs.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Today, the greatest number of multimillion-dollar women-owned businesses are in wholesale trade (20%), finance/insurance (12%), and transportation/warehousing (11%). Those businesses were mainly in fashion, fitness and beauty.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Benchmarking Health Care 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.

Planning 8

Planning Agility System Retail 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.

Chief Operating Officer 10

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

If you look at the last 20 years or so, venture capitalists did help make the Internet possible, did help make biotechnology possible, are driving a lot of investment in energy technologies and transportation technologies and government services and educational services and healthcare and so forth. We believe D.C.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Company Biotechnology Transportation 9

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. Insight Center.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

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

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. Dr. Tomoko Hosoe is a project specialist at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaií.

Crisis 8

Crisis Power Management Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

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. Individual users can make choices about what to look at, but online technologies and service providers should not discriminate.

Media 15

Media Cost Content Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s costly to find and transport extra products in hazardous conditions. However, federal and state governments provide subsidizes to retailers on essential products such as gasoline, primary food stuffs, and relevant construction materials. During states of emergency, price gouging laws go into effect. How could this be implemented?

Price 8

Price Retail Incentives Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

High growth ventures are more prevalent in basic industries than they are in the stereotypical technology sectors. High growth firms are more likely to be in food services, real estate, construction, commerce, logistics and manufacturing than in ICT and life sciences.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Policies Incubator Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, crisis epicenters, mothers are at risk due to a host of problems including scarce medical supplies, inadequate refrigeration for life-saving medicines, lack of transportation to medical care facilities, and cultural norms such as hiding pregnancy. Corporate social responsibility Health'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 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.

Process 52

Process Metrics Human Resources Software 52