How Supply Chain Managers Can Help Keep Vendors Focused
Supply chain managers see firsthand how easy it can be for suppliers to overextend themselves. Because they are often smaller, entrepreneurial businesses, suppliers can feel like they need to [...]
Why Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Matters
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures are treated as an afterthought within many organizations. Lip service gets paid to the concept of an inclusive workplace, maybe there’s an annual [...]
How To Handle The Sales-Service Disconnect
It’s a common problem businesses face — the sales team promises more than the service side can deliver. This happens for a variety of reasons, from wanting to drive [...]
Why You’re Struggling to Find the Right Talent (And What to do About It)
Finding talented people and convincing them to work for you is tough. In a 2021 report by Manpower Group, nearly 7 in 10 companies reported talent shortages and difficulty [...]
Workplace Technology: How to Streamline the Digital Assets in Your Organization
Organization is key to streamlining your digital assets. In part one of this series, we discussed the importance of choosing the right technology, and how to make [...]
Choosing Technology For Your Business: A Leader’s Guide
No matter the industry, today’s leaders are drowning in options for software business tools. There are literally thousands to choose from. So how do you choose the best technology [...]
How to Optimize Your Workflow and Make it Stick
The word “workflow” is ubiquitous in the business world. We’re always talking about how to optimize it, but what does that actually mean? Workflow optimization can be defined as [...]
Defining Company Roles: How Middle Managers Keep The Foundation Strong
In the first two parts of our blog series about company roles, we discussed the role of the C-Suite and Senior Management, focusing on how they can use their [...]
Defining Work Roles: How to Keep Your Enterprise Healthy as a Senior Manager
In part one of our series on defining company roles, we talked about how the C-suite can build a more resilient company and keep their employees happy. In part [...]
Policy and Performance: How to Improve Your Organizational Structure
Whether we know it or not, every business has an organizational structure. Some form organically over time, and some are intentionally created. No matter which it is, a [...]
How a Diverse Supply Chain Gives You a Competitive Edge
Disruptions in global logistics can have dire consequences. Factors like extreme weather events, geopolitical conflicts, and cyberattacks can negatively affect the supply chain in different ways, and businesses have [...]
Defining Work Roles: How the C-suite Can Build a Happier and More Resilient Company
No business would run without the human systems behind it. Companies need talented, competent people to survive. To run well and thrive, the company culture must embrace its people [...]