“Who cares” might be the two words that will have the biggest impact on your company’s employee experience — and the growth you can expect as a result.
Imagine an employee who is experiencing stress or anxiety on the job, for example.
If they ask themselves “Who cares?” with an air of futility, it...
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There’s no question that renewable energy is the future of manufacturing. The question is how that future should play out from one manufacturer to another.
Regardless of the customer base they serve, manufacturers rely on some kind of process heating system to turn raw materials into paper,...
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The manufacturers poised for the greatest long-term growth have come to realize their focus can’t be solely on the products they make. It’s about the people who use them — and, just as importantly, the planet we all live on.
Developing a sustainability strategy is obviously good for manufacturing...
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If manufacturers could press a big red button that said “Innovate,” it’s not hard to imagine what they would want it to do.
Aging assembly lines might be instantly replaced with a row of mechanical arms that did all the final touches of goods being produced.
Whiteboards in the research and...
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In 2016, just 4 per cent of Canadian employees worked most of their hours from home. At the beginning of 2021, that number had risen to 32 per cent. In the last two years, the number of remote workers soared — and many found they enjoyed the flexibility, comfort, and lack of commute. Some workers...
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Anyone can be an innovator — at least in theory.
What happens in practice is that most of us are kept busy enough simply trying to successfully do our jobs the way they’ve always been done. Time for innovation gets pushed because we have deadlines to meet, or fires to put out.
Most of us aren’t...
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Almost 20 years ago, environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki decided his next book needed to sound a little different than the work that came before it.
Instead of focusing on the impact of rising population, the depletion of natural resources and global warming, Suzuki decided to shine a...
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This is a debate about the rationale for making a major change within a sector whose performance is critical to the Canadian economy.
Unlike most debates, though, whether one side of the debate proves more persuasive than the other isn’t what’s important.
What’s important is that the change — in...
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Behind almost every product we purchase is a manufacturing organization so complex it can be difficult to map out on a single diagram
Most of us might initially picture an assembly line, where goods are assembled or finalized. Long before that, though, there are entire teams focused on collecting...
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