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Random Thoughts from the Past Week. Tthis month, June 2020, is my 40th anniversary in the Consulting Business. I am amazed at that and thankful that I made a living doing it. For the record I still want to make a difference in the lives of dealers and employees in the parts and service world. […]
“Ignoring America’s Talent Desert Won’t Solve the Problem!” Reports of talent shortages continue to proliferate: The National Association of Manufacturers reported an all-time record high of over 500,000 vacant positions (September 2019). A National Association of Home Builders Survey found that over half of contractors had shortages in 12 of the 16 categories of […]
Badges, the Computer, and College Everywhere Last week, we left off with Patrick Suppes and his realization that students learning online were receiving modestly better results than those in the traditional classroom. This week, we continue with his journey and conclude our discussion. In 1972 Suppes taught a class on the Introduction to Logic. He […]
e-Learning Twenty years ago, in 1999, John Chambers, then CEO of CISCO Systems said, “Education over the internet is going to make email usage look like a rounding error.” The renowned Clairmont Professor and business guru thought that “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” As those of you who […]
The Challenge We are getting close to being in a position of complete saturation in the jobs market. We now have more jobs open than we have workers looking for a job. That has not happened for a long time. We now have over 6,000,000 jobs open across the country. The most recent Gordon report, […]
Learning Without Scars was created to fill a void in the Capital Goods Industries, specifically the light and heavy equipment space. With technical schools closing at an alarming rate the markets we serve were becoming unable to find the talents and skills they required in the operational areas of the business, parts and service specifically. […]
For some time now, the Capital Goods Industries has used global position and equipment monitoring technologies. Last week I talk about the Cloud Based Technologies that were impacting our world. I want to look in a different direction this week. On March 22nd the following press release got my attention: China: – Commercial drone data […]
Recently I read an excellent article on the IoT regarding cloud based technologies and the impact that they are going to be having on all of us. The cloud is impacting all of us gradually and some of us rather strongly and quickly. The technological capability enabling this shift—often referred to as the Internet of […]
In this last weekend prior to the US election I am reading a rather outstanding book titled “The New Industrial Revolution” authored by Peter Marsh. I would like to extract a few passages from this book while encouraging you to get it and read it. “In 1750, the leader in global manufacturing was China, responsible […]