Welcome to ProMat DX
In these unprecedented times, supply chain solutions are more critical to business success than they have ever been. To answer this call, MHI created the ProMat Digital Experience (ProMatDX), a new digital event experience designed to power up manufacturing and supply chain professionals with critical access to the latest solutions they need now to improve resiliency and agility of their operations. ProMatDX combines the power of the...
Why we need to redefine Employee Engagement
If you Google “Employee Engagement” and look for images representing it, you’ll find groups of people in business attire smiling, high-fiving, laughing, or conducting some other staged behavior. While it may look a bit comical, somewhere in the recesses of our minds, we want to replicate this feeling with our own staff. We associated happiness with engagement, and often try to fill the void with a series of...
Job Shock: Solving the Pandemic & 2030 Employment Meltdown Part III: The Kids & Workers Are Not “All Right”
Many students and workers cannot accept the new reality that they are undereducated for many jobs in this decade’s labor market, let alone future ones! KNAPP has created a robot for warehouses with the dexterity to recognize and sort random items with 99 percent accuracy. Once such robots are put into operation, humans would continue to work alongside them, but the catch is that these workers will need a whole set of additional...
Job Shock Part II: Solving the pandemic & 2030 employment meltdown. What changed?
Would You Use a Videotape in a Blu-ray Disc Player? The days of semi-skilled blue-collar factory jobs are fast disappearing. These jobs once provided a 19-year-old high school graduate or drop-out with the wages and benefits needed to support a family with a middle-class standard of living. Thinking that working in low-skill manufacturing or service occupations will propel you into the middle-class today is as sensible as buying a...
I wanna be a success! I wanna be a success!
What does it take to become a sales success? Why do some people make it to the top? Or, more to reality, why do some people who have the top talent, wallow in mediocrity? Big questions. While the answers to questions of what it takes to “make it” is subjective, there are some common characteristics and principles that are attributed to those who have achieved success. There are repeated patterns and actions of successful people....
Things are happening
I hope you took advantage of the JOB SHOCK comments prepared by Edward Gordon I referred to in last month’s column. Be sure to share it with the younger members of your family, especially those close to entering the job market. Dean kindly attached the article to the MHW website to give you access. And after reading it you may find yourself saving some money. I am not going to get into the details here because you really need to read...
The Electric Future
When I got into this business 40 years ago, my first manager told me something that I am often reminded of. He was convinced that whatever the automotive industry was doing today, would be repeated by the forklift industry, 10-15 years later. He always said: “Ignore the car business, and miss your opportunities”. He could not have been more accurate. From sales strategies to financial merchandising, to aftermarket options, we have...
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