ViaSydney Morning Herald You can’t manage what you can’t measure. This concept has been around for ages – and it makes perfect sense. How do you know if your business is going well if you don’t have some performance metrics to consider. How can you figure out if your staff are productive if you can’t measure their productivity or output? The trouble is that performance measurement often falls by the … Continue reading
ViaSydney Morning Herald Jobless fall confirms serious skills shortage An unexpected fall in the unemployment rate leaves the nation still facing a costly skills crisis that business and governments must respond to, according to a recruitment specialist. New data showed the unemployment rate fell to a five-month low of 4.1% in August, just shy of the 34-year low of 3.9% set in February. Clarius Group managing director and chief executive … Continue reading
Viachinadaily.com By Xu Shenglan The producer price index (PPI) for China’s industrial products rose 10.0 percent year on year in July, while that of the mining industries surged 34 percent year-on-year, according to China Securities Journal. The data shows that China’s manufacturing industry is facing the pressure of increasing costs. Raising the price of new orders is the first choice for many firms, and then improving labor productivity. According to … Continue reading
ViaBusiness WeekBy building mathematical models of its own employees, IBM aims to improve productivity and automate management by Stephen Baker BusinessWeek’s 2006 Cover Story, “Math Will Rock Your World,” announced a new age of numbers. With the rise of new networks, the story argued, all of us were channeling the details of our lives into vast databases. Every credit-card purchase, every cell-phone call, every click on the computer mouse fed … Continue reading
ViaCleantech blog by Richard T. Stuebi The think-tank arm of the management consulting firm McKinsey &Co., the McKinseyGlobal Institute (MGI), has been releasing some pretty darn interesting analyses to frame the overall energy and environmental situation the world faces. The breakthrough was MGI’s February 2007 work to develop a “cost-curve” for GHG reductions , showing the quantities and relative costs associated with various emission reduction technologies and approaches that could … Continue reading
ViaNY Times Under New ManagementAfter a Downsizing, How to Motivate? By KELLEY HOLLAND DOWNSIZING. Restructuring. Headcount reduction. Whatever they are called, layoffs instill dread, guilt or both in managers. The loss of a job is among life’s most traumatic events, and even many hard-nosed managers hate to force that experience on their colleagues. Because of this, managers can become so consumed by the prospect of firing people that they fail … Continue reading
ViaAmerican Chronicle Are you ready to turn your thinking from Generation Y as difficult people to great corporate citizens? Generation X and the Baby Boomers have not had this kind of press because they remained within a “norm” of others expectations. Gen Y do not consider themselves to be difficult or toxic people. So you may want to stop making fun of them! The good news is that Generation Y … Continue reading
ViaMilitary & Aerospace Electronics By Courtney E. Howard The test and measurement of electronics is an important part of any development and production process, yet testing for military and aerospace applications is especially critical because failures might put lives and missions at risk, recognizes John Barfuss, aerospace &defense program manager at test giant Agilent Technologies Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif. “If a business person’s phone stops working it is an … Continue reading
ViaNY Times By PHYLLIS KORKKI Q. Your desk is always a mess. How can this be, when you do most of your work on the computer? A. Some people need to hold information in their hands and write things down to think and work, said Julie Morgenstern, a productivity consultant based in New York. That’s the way their brains work, she said. The computer hasn’t changed that; in fact, it … Continue reading
ViaDaily Chronicle, Illinois By DANA HERRA – dherra@daily-chronicle.com Bert Hueber may use an ultrasound machine for his job, but he doesn’t work for a hospital or a medical clinic. Hueber is a partner in Beef Performance Technology, and takes the ultrasound machine and the “heavy-duty laptop” connected to it to cattle operations around the area. He isn’t looking for medical information: The ultrasounds let him “see” the quality of beef … Continue reading