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Beverage producers must ensure that their employees are capable of doing their jobs even as rapid technological change alters the beverage plant work environment. Employees that cannot perform competently need to be either retrained or replaced. Frequent personnel evaluation is critical in preventing an underskilled workforce from obviating the benefits of modern computer-controlled beverage processing machinery., Beverage plants face a continual challenge in procuring, training and managing the people assigned to daily plant operations. Certainly, this is nothing new: Over two years ago I addressed in [...]

How did life get so complicated? When I was growing up, I could easily recognized the make and model of any automobile. Today I can hardly tell a foreign from [...]

A follow-up report on a study made by Sawyer Riley Compton Inc (SRCI) showed that business-to-business marketing innovations have occurred earlier than expected, and notable trends have emerged. SRCI Chmn Gordon Sawyer presented the report during a seminar held in Feb 1992, in Chicago, IL. He said that middle managers are being replaced by telecommunication and computer technologies ahead of the predicted time. Rapidly advancing technologies have also made existing computers obsolete as well as changed business structures and orientation. Business marketeers should train their clients cope with innovations.

A VISION OF THE FUTURE The New York Times reported last month that New York City was planning to save $800,000 a year by having prisoners on Rikers Island, in [...]

How do you strike a good balance between people and technology in an organization? Professor Randy Bobbitt, Ph.D., of Ohio State University recently shared some interesting views on the subject [...]