Strategy Driven

AUGUST 2, 2021

Shippers typically overcome temperature issues by using reefer trucks that have built-in technology to maintain specific temperature ranges within the truck. Managing Containers. Commodities, including chemicals, paint, glue, wine and alcohol, liquids, and some perishable foods need to be transported above freezing temperatures.

Management 120

Management Tips Transportation Chemicals 120

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Pallet wrapping, a critical component of the packaging stage, is responsible for securing goods on pallets for safe transportation. The Evolution of Pallet Wrapping Technology In recent years , technological advancements have revolutionized the pallet wrapping landscape.

Operations 110

Operations Supply Chain Film Efficiency 110

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2020

Managing your business gets increasingly more difficult as you scale it, Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to ensure that your company stays organized as long as you adopt some golden rules to help streamline your workflow and logistics processes. Efficient warehouse management is the key to a well-oiled logistics system.

Management 94

Management Supply Chain Contingency Plans Efficiency 94

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.

Due Diligence 106

Due Diligence Participative Price Efficiency 106

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

From choosing the right commercial moving company to settling into your new location, every step needs to be executed with precision and attention to detail. This includes handling delicate office equipment, ensuring everything is transported safely, and setting up in the new location with minimal disruptions.

Brand 117

Brand Marketing Strategy Operations Efficiency 117

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

Navigating the business landscape with a large fleet is a daunting task filled with countless challenges, from managing fuel expenses to ensuring timely maintenance. The audit should assess the effectiveness of your fleet’s management system. Vehicle manufacturers can also be valuable partners in your pursuit of fleet efficiency.

Productivity 111

Productivity Products Outsourcing Efficiency 111

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Managing drivers who are continuously working long hours and traveling from one state to another is problematic. Trucking dispatch software may make fleet management appear as simple as a stroll in the park by simplifying routing and driver assignments. The latter is only achievable with a sophisticated dispatch management system.

Software 105

Software Operations Transportation Agility 105

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. Trajan followed Augustus, and ruled during what was an even more expansive period.

Tips 133

Tips Team Management Teamwork 133

Great Results Team Building

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Increasingly, people now work together as virtual teams and therefore require more effective virtual management to keep the group focused and feeling connected. Organizations have become stretched through geographic and technological expansion. Trajan followed Augustus, and ruled during what was an even more expansive period.

Tips 145

Tips Team Management Teamwork 145

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Executives play in a bigger league; they play for higher stakes; and the game is for keeps. Doing the day-to-day, hands-on work doesn’t fit the job description of the executive; driving the strategy, developing the bench, and making high-caliber decisions have become the new coinage of the realm.

Execution 50

Execution Competitive Advantage Transportation Leadership Styles 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. Specifically, the state is pinning its hopes on small business, with a portion of federal R&D funds “set aside for small business to develop and commercialize innovative technology.&#

Press Release 157

Press Release Discount Education Transportation 157

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

This is despite the concerns on data security surrounding cloud technology. Furthermore, 70% of transportation and retail firms outsource portions of their services. The same thing goes for 71% of financial service executives in the country. Businesses will incorporate these technologies to interact with their customers.

Outsourcing 66

Outsourcing Trends Offshoring Telecommunications 66

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

Never in the history have so many technologies matured at the same time from social, mobile, cloud, artificial intelligence, sensors, quantum computing, and more. The combinatorial effects of these technologies have suddenly accelerated progress exponentially toward the hyperconnected world, we live in today.

Brand 96

Brand Insurance Participative Open-book 96

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2020

It is vital that you know your responsibility as a carrier to safely and securely transport dangerous goods. However, if you are a safe driver, you will manage the little space you have by keeping your truck fixed in the lane and avoid driving on the edges. Wear your seat belt.

Tips 67

Tips Transportation Follow-up Bottom-up 67

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. -Daniel Kahneman. What was most surprising to you in studying the research into experimentation?

Power 95

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2018

In 1997, health information technology and digitial health pioneer Warner Slack wrote his bold and prophetic book, Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Care. Many have suggested ride sharing as a solution to improve access to non-emergency medical transportation. Jamie Jones/Getty Images.

Technology 8

Technology Transportation Health Care Information Technology 8

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology. This week, his other company, SpaceX, became the first commercial company in history to put a spacecraft in orbit and bring it back to earth. 

Executive Coaching 139

Executive Coaching Blog Letter Execution 139

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.

Power 102

Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean?

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. A manager that can provide this to their employees will develop a loyal and strong team.

Press Release 100

Press Release Motivation Discount PR 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Last year Feld, who is managing director at Foundry Group and co-founder of TechStars, announced he would no longer travel for business. He equipped his Boulder offices with state-of-the-art video conferencing systems, and now holds meetings using this technology or asks business partners to travel to see him. Thriving at the Top.

Travel 9

Travel Execution Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With what I’ve noted thus far I’m always amazed at the number of executives who don’t keep up with their professional reading. Hmmm… Furthermore, studies show that active readers are likely to have annual incomes more than 5 times greater than those who spend little or no time reading.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Fortune 500 executives spend a fair amount of time thinking about how automation and the Internet are changing the nature of employment, but they rarely wonder how technology will have an impact much closer to home: on their own jobs. But could iCEO manage actual work projects for our organization?

Software 8

Software Management Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. This distinction is important because the driver is typically the most expensive part of a transport business, be it taxi services, last-mile logistics, or long-haul trucking.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Waymo’s Director of Operations Shaun Stewart said that one of the reasons they chose Trov is that innovative technology needs innovative partners. ” Founder and CEO of Trov Scott Walchek said that “ this partnership highlights the convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance.

Insurance 8

Insurance Transportation Licensing Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

First, hospital operations are in many ways like airline and airport operations and transportation services. In mathematical terms, hospital operations, like airlines and transportation, consist of hundreds of mini-processes, each of which is more stochastic and less deterministic than, say, the steps in assembling a car.

Airlines 8

Airlines Health Care Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. This year we’ve heard more from Fortune 500 executives with questions about machine intelligence than from startup founders. These executives are asking themselves what to do.

Software 8

Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

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 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber, like all transportation services, has never and will never offer a product that’s composed purely of digital “bits,” as companies do in media (Netflix and YouTube), music (Spotify), or advertisements (Facebook and Google). Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run.

Transportation 9

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. The carriers blamed poor execution. VW thinks of itself as a car manufacturer that uses technology. For example, most retailers are merchants using technology.

Airlines 13

Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. EV advocates are quick to note that technology improvements in batteries will one day eliminate the range problem.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

They believe big companies are weighed down by their own success, too invested in the past to create and execute new ideas. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. ” I disagree.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

The response to Ebola has largely relied on public health strategies established over a century ago and technology that has been around for decades. Indeed, fresh thinking and new technologies could potentially address many challenges. The possible innovations are not limited to technologies alone.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 8