Walmart sees the future: Educating its workforce in Supply Chain Management and business.
Last week in its yearly shareholder meeting, Walmart announced several important initiatives that will impact its 1.4 million workers.
Walmart will subsidize college tuition so its employees can earn college degrees in supply chain management and business. These are core assets and differentiators to Walmart and now to more companies. Continue reading
This is the time of year when millions of kids are told if they’re getting into their college or university of choice. It’s a time of huge stress for kids and their parents.
The kids think that their life’s arc is going to be facilitated by a name university. The parents are anxious to see if their 18 years of mentoring and parenting have pointed their kid in the right direction for life and work. And, oh by the way: who’s going to pay for the educational launch pad (i.e. college)? Continue reading
Who Wins: The Machine or the Human?
There is a huge fear around the globe that:
The Machines Are Coming!
How much is this reality, fear, or over hype?
Upcoming Machine and robot wars are posed this way. Continue reading
What do you think is the #1 business risk in 2018 according to the World Economic Forum?
Guess again? Continue reading
“From North Korean missiles to the eclipse to fidget spinners, 2017 was a year so surreal, so densely populated with strange and alarming events, that you have to seriously consider the possibility that somebody — and when we say “somebody,” we mean “Russia” — was putting LSD in our water supply.”
The above quote is from Dave Barry in a cover page article in today’s (12/31/17) Washington Post. Continue reading