09 Oct, 2023 Lessons from the factory floor part 3: So many wrenches, so few wrench turners By Parmesh Bhaskaran Steven Hilgendorf Allen Merriman Felix Pflaum Stephen Smith Chandan Singh +3 more... Show less Over the past few years, America’s factory talent pool has regularly made front-page news. These workers played a central role in...
27 Mar, 2023 Consumer Products Corner – Supply Chain Check-Up: Which will fall fastest? Inflation or the economy? By Randy Burt Brett Meyer Michael Hunter Ben Roers +1 more... Show less Declining consumer demand – largely driven by pressure from rapidly rising household debt-income levels and ongoing consumer price...
17 Mar, 2023 Labor productivity, automation, and the case for digital manufacturing By Abhinav Agrawal Rob Sterner Steven Hilgendorf Aman Shah +1 more... Show less Supply chains are vast and complex. With the need for semi-conductors and rare earth metals, and the country’s deep consumer markets, the...
10 Feb, 2023 The war for talent – Part 2 of 5: How to overcome the digital mismatch By Piero Masera Marcello Bellitto Filippo Guidotti Mori One of the most critical issues in today’s labor market is the lack of alignment between supply and demand, calibrated on the new digital...
07 Feb, 2023 The war for talent – Part 1 of 5 By Piero Masera Marcello Bellitto Filippo Guidotti Mori A mismatch between supply and demand in the arena of digital talent, organizational changes dictated by new hybrid working models, and...
07 Feb, 2023 La guerra dei talenti – Ep. 1 By Piero Masera Marcello Bellitto Filippo Guidotti Mori Mancata corrispondenza tra domanda e offerta in campo digitale, cambiamenti organizzativi dettati dai nuovi modelli di hybrid work,...
03 Feb, 2023 Embracing a digital workforce in ‘The Age of And’ By Ted Bililies Angela Zutavern Our newly published Disruption Index polled 3,000 global business executives, and an overwhelming number indicate they are not...
19 Oct, 2022 Next stop on the rail disruption express By Erik Mattson Miriam Hall Andrew Kerr Last week, a union representing almost 12,000 rail workers in the United States voted down a tentative contract, which had been brokered...
30 Sep, 2022 Is the warehouse cost crunch sticking around? By Steve Scales Andrew Talerico Costs are spiking in the US warehouse sector, as the heightened demand for storage space sustains, but the above-trend rent increases are...
15 Sep, 2022 The next supply chain disruption – crisis averted or looming chaos? By Erik Mattson Miriam Hall Andrew Kerr Over the past few months, the global supply chain has taken a collective deep breath. Consumer demand has decreased, ocean and trucking...
01 Sep, 2022 Setting your annual budget amid economic uncertainty By Simon Freakley Lisa Donahue Budgeting-as-usual is a poor fit for times of economic uncertainty. The current moment requires drastic action, not a typical process....
24 Aug, 2022 Commercial Aerospace Profits Bounce Back. Next Challenge: Delivering on Investor Expectations By Matteo Peraldo Ivan Rodon Matt Zmuda Commercial aerospace EBIT returned to positive territory in 2021 after a rare negative performance in 2020, with the rebound led by...