- 8 Things Great Bosses Demand from Employees 5/14/12 My recent column, 8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses, drew a flood of responses. But there's one thing I didn't mention: An extraordinary boss communicates his expectations clearly to his team. That way, everyone understands what it will take to make ...
- New Windows and SQL Server Support 5/01/12 If you are having issues viewing the document, Click here to download the PDF. If you are having issues viewing the document, Click here to download the PDF....
- Carpe Diem’s charts of the week 4/17/12 1. The Newspaper Association of America reported that advertising revenue for print newspapers in the U.S. fell to $20.7 billion in 2011. Adjusted for inflation, that’s the lowest annual advertising revenue for newspapers since 1951, sixty years ago. It t...
- Software: Only As Useful As The Users Are Trained 4/10/12 I love Evernote. I use it every day for dozens of things. I keep a list of books that I want to read on it, RSVPs for events, and even my To-Do list. Evernote is a smartphone app that you can also download to your personal computer. Aside from handling...
- CIOs' Love-Hate Relationship with the Cloud Revealed 3/23/12 For information technology leaders, cloud computing offers opportunities to make their jobs easier and help business technology shine. But what does it mean to be an IT leader in an era of do-it-yourself IT? Two new surveys suggest as cloud moves into the...
- Essential Leadership Lessons From The Girl Scouts 3/13/12 One hundred years ago on March 12, 1912, Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low gathered 18 girls in Savannah, Georgia with the intention of shaping girls into confident, courageous leaders. Since that first meeting, nearly 60 million women in the U.S. h...
- Side by Side Photos of the Japanese Tsunami: Then and Now 3/06/12 Last year's tsunami in Japan caused what is estimated to have been the most expensive natural disaster ever, with more than 15,000 lives lost. See before-and-after photos.
- Jargon Madness 2/21/12 The next time you feel the need to reach out, touch base, shift a paradigm, leverage a best practice or join a tiger team, by all means do it. Just don’t say you’re doing it. Because--and please believe us--all that meaningless business jargon makes you s...
- Just How Important Is Manufacturing? 2/21/12 Having a strong domestic manufacturing base is vital to the United States maintaining its world leadership in innovation. That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and ...
- Is Siri coming to the IPad 3? Five iPad 3 Rumors That Just Might Be True 2/14/12 It’s looking almost certain that Apple is planning a March launch for its highly anticipated iPad 3. The question on everybody’s mind is whether the third-generation tablet is going to be a revolutionary step for Apple, or a repeat of the iPhone 4S, wi...
- U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness in Global Trade 1/17/12 Those of us ensconced in debates in support of U.S. manufacturing often hear opponents claiming that the over-regulated U.S. labor market and unionized heavy industry render us uncompetitive in global markets. That may sound convincing given competitio...
- Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds on the Internet 12/30/11 In a single minute there are over 695,000 status updates on Facebook. That's just one example of the mind boggling scale of online activity. The following infographics show a bunch of other incredible things that happen in 60 seconds... Source: Busine...
- MES Decisions: Now Easier Than Ever 12/30/11 Deciding whether you need a manufacturing execution system (MES) is easier than ever, yet deciding how to proceed is more difficult than ever. Sound confusing? It might be—or it might not be. For about 20 years, people have been asking me: “If my compa...
- NAM/IW Q4 Survey: Manufacturer Optimism Spikes 12/22/11 Manufacturers are becoming more confident in the economy as the year is winding down. In the last NAM/IndustryWeek Survey of Manufacturers -- which was released in September 2011 -- respondents were mostly positive, but they were significantly less optimi...
- Invensys Closing the Loop on Enterprise Control 11/08/11 Live from the Paris installment of Invensys' OpsManage series of user conferences, Sudipta Bhattacharya, president and CEO of Invensys Operations Management, chats with Control's Walt Boyes on the range of new products and technologies to be demonstrated ...
- The Institute of Supply Management's Manufacturing Report on Business 10/11/11 DO NOT CONFUSE THIS NATIONAL REPORT with the various regional purchasing reports released across the country. The national report's information reflects the entire United States, while the regional reports contain primarily regional data from their local ...
- How Angry Birds are Affecting Productivity 10/04/11 Every March, it is a requirement that every newspaper and website in every town in the United States run a story about how much money American companies lose because people watch the NCAA basketball tournament instead of working. Challenger, Gray, and ...
- Let's start hiring! US Manufacturers Plan to Increase Hiring 9/12/11 Despite growing worry about the economy, politics and commodity prices, most U.S. manufacturers in a new survey said they would increase hiring by 7 percent over the next year. The survey was done this summer by RSM McGladrey, a national accounting, ta...
- 7 Lessons CEO's Can Learn from Steve Jobs 9/07/11 The internet is crawling with stories about Steve Jobs’ retirement from Apple. And so are the newspapers. Steve Jobs has been an iconic chief executive and has truly changed the way that the world consumes media – and has blazed the technology trail for t...
- Data historians provide effective decision support in near real time 5/06/11 Plant data historians are moving beyond their traditional role as a tool for collecting and archiving data to better understand past plant performance, to becoming a powerful tool that can be used to improve real-time operations. With increased data throu...
