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The Value and Future of Site Readiness Programs in Corporate Location Decisions

The Value and Future of Site Readiness Programs in Corporate Location Decisions

Site readiness programs have become a valuable tool for economic development organizations to attract projects, while also helping companies and site selection consultants to make faster, more...

Rise of Multimodal Manufacturing

Rise of Multimodal Manufacturing

Multimodal manufacturing plants undertake several types of complex manufacturing processes within the same four walls. This strategy is increasingly important as customers continue to demand more...

How Digital Transformation Will Remake Customer Experience in Manufacturing

How Digital Transformation Will Remake Customer Experience in Manufacturing

In the U.S., manufacturers are moving up the value chain and developing complex products with more favorable margins, while also offering new services built around these products. To secure these...

Don't Underestimate Overtime Changes

Don't Underestimate Overtime Changes

New Department of Labor changes to the salary-level threshold for overtime could represent financial and operational challenges for employers, who now must evaluate how their employees are scheduled...

Forrester

Future of Work

Automation promises to change the nature of what an organization is, what a company does, and how work is done. It will at the same time free humans from mundane tasks and enable more complex,...

Ramping

Ramping Up Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is increasing in use today in the United States and around the world. From 2007 to 2012, electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar nearly quadrupled nationally.

Deloitte

2018 Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute skills gap and future of work study

The United States is experiencing near-historic low unemployment amid an extended period of economic expansion. The skills shortage that Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute have been tracking...

MEMSQL

The Path to Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning

Today, every piece of digital technology is constantly sharing, processing, analyzing, discovering, and propagating an endless stream of zeros and ones. This web of devices tells us more about...

CBRE

2018 TECH-30: Measuring Tech Industry Impact Across North American Markets

CBRE’s 2018 TECH-30 report explores where tech tenants are clustering and how they’re impacting market fundamentals across the U.S.

GAMA

Aircraft Deliveries on the Rise: Research by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association published this report, showing delivery of airplanes and rotorcraft increased over last year.