EHS Whitepaper Rehabilitation & Injury Prevention Workplace Clinics
Leverage Injury Prevention to Drive Operational Performance “We have to start with safety. It’s how we earn the trust of our people. It allows us to ask them to participate in other improvement activities.” ~ Japanese Manufacturing Manager The statement above was an eye-opener for Milliken Vice President Craig Long. Here’s how he explains the […]
Getting to Zero: An Ergonomic Injury Prevention Case Study
Getting to Zero: An Ergonomic Injury Prevention Case Study November 2010 was not a good month for newly installed plant manager Mark Tucker. He had just received word that his facility had suffered its 11th lost-time injury of the year. The factory was averaging one lost-time injury per month and claim costs were spiraling out […]
Preserve Cash with Multi-Year IT Cloud Re-Platforming & Integration
Preserve Cash with Multi-Year IT Cloud Re-Platforming & Integration IT surveys indicate that roughly 80% of mid-market and enterprise companies plan to migrate IT systems to the cloud in the coming years. High inflation and economic uncertainty, however, […]
How Companies Use Safety to Drive Operational Performance
How Companies Use Safety to Drive Operational Performance “We have to start with safety. It’s how we earn the trust of our people. It allows us to ask them to participate in other improvement activities.” ~ Japanese Manufacturing Manager The statement above was an eye-opener for Milliken Vice President Craig Long. Here’s how he explains […]
What Personality Type Makes a Better CEO During Difficult Times?
What Personality Type Makes a Better CEO During Difficult Times? Is it the brash type or the modest, the pretentious or unpretentious, reserved, or charismatic, introverted or extroverted, Alpha or Omega? Most business leaders are blend of extroversion and introversion. Both personality types are effective leaders depending on the circumstances. The hard-charging extrovert looks for […]
Shared Value: A New Name for Creative Problem-Solving
Shared Value: A New Name for Creative Problem-Solving It was reported in 2016 that Fortune 500 companies saved $3.7 billion by switching from conventional to renewable energy. Let’s set aside, for a moment, the debate on whether corporations should play a greater role in solving complex environmental and social issues in the communities in which […]
How to Better “Frame” Corporate Sustainability
How to Better “Frame” Corporate Sustainability For corporate sustainability to truly take hold in North America, it must counter the firmly-entrenched shareholder-primacy framework. This corporate view has held sway for more than a century, further solidified by economist Milton Friedman in the 1970s. He stated that economics was a science and adapted his pronouncements into […]
Invisible Hand Says We Should Focus on Environmental Solutions
Invisible Hand Says We Should Focus on Environmental Solutions “By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.” ~ Adam Smith Book IV, Chapter II, paragraph IX of The Wealth of Nations. This excerpt from Wealth of Nations describes how Smith defined […]
A Well-Defined Employer Brand Attracts, Retains, and Repels
A Well-Defined Employer Brand Attracts, Retains, and Repels Have you noticed that top corporate brands don’t have to advertise their open positions? They attract more than enough candidate applications because they are an employer of choice. And yet they continue to fine tune their employer brand. They do this not because they want more […]
Automated Vendor Registration with Web-Based Portals
Automated Vendor Registration with Web-Based Portals An efficient supply chain is critical to competing in a global economy. Web-based vendor management portals reduce supply chain costs by automating supplier onboarding processes. And that’s just the beginning. The software’s KPI management functionality then transforms vendor data into […]