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 […]
The Business of Hydrogen
Special thanks to David Edwards (Director and Advocate for Hydrogen Energy, Air Liquide US), David Burns (Vice-President of Clean Energy Development, Linde), and Lars Martiny (Head of Hydrogen Future, The Chemours company). When considering which segments of the industrial gas industry have taken off over the past 5-10 years, hydrogen invariably dominates the conversation. Arguably […]
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 […]
Business Resilience
Thanks to Jim de Vries (Founder/President, EIG) for his contributions A few years ago (2017), Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, published a book with Adam Grant called ‘OPTION B’ on the topic of building personal ‘resilience’ after the tragic loss of her husband. The book offered compelling insights for dealing with personal hardships in our […]