Special thanks to Ben Bisconer, CEO of Complete Welders, Scott Myran, President of Mississippi Welders Supply Company (MWSCO), Joe Francis, President and CEO of Central McGowan, and Allen Jezouit, VP Product Management, Meritus Gas Products for their contributions. The content for this blog was published in the October US Print edition of GasWorld. Almost three […]
Business Trends and their Impact on Strategy, Growth, and Talent
Special thanks to Freddie Briggs, VP of Strategy & Value Creation for PDC Machines LLC, Rick Kowey, COO of Universal Compressed Air (UCA), Kevin Lynch, SVP of Industrial Gases at Anova, and Sobia Chaudhry, VP of HR at PDC Machines for their contributions. This year has started out a bit differently than previous years because […]
Maintaining Customer Relations (and Remote Working)
Thanks to Jeff White (President of EMD Electronics, a business of Merck KGaA) for his contributions All companies have been faced with the challenge of maintaining robust and consistent customer relations in the midst the pandemic. In Salesforce’s annual (2020) ‘State of Service’ survey, it stated “the pandemic exposed avariety of customer related shortcomings. Eighty-eight […]
Implementing E-Commerce Systems
Thanks to Kurt Cannon (SVP, LIQUID) and Joe Wechezak (CIO, EnerSys) for their contributions Background/history Let us start with a definition. The term e-commerce (electronic commerce) is a business model that allows firms and individuals to buy and sell things over the internet, as well as enables the transfer of money and data to execute […]
The importance of a digital strategy
Thanks to Eric Wise (CEO, Wise Telemetry) for his contribution. The concept or maybe the value of a digital strategy started becoming more evident over the last 10+ years as some digital capabilities (social media, mobile, e-commerce, IIOT) have scaled and gone mainstream.But developing a ‘sustainable’ digital strategy is hard work, harder than it has […]