• Driving Change Through Innovation in Healthcare

Driving Change Through Innovation in Healthcare- by James HsuAs with any other business sector, innovation is quintessential in healthcare industries. Rapid scientific advancements in the understanding of biological processes have fuelled radical changes in nanotechnology and genetics, as well as i...

• Navigating the Healthcare Supply Chain

As the world’s economic markets are changing, so are the businesses operating within those markets. So whether it’s a large scale manufacturing production line, or a hospital supply chain, the pressure is on. Before the world tumbled into a recession, most hospitals were thought to be operating ef...

• Caring and Lean: Transforming Health Care with Patient-Centered Care

Caring and Lean: Transforming Health Care with Patient-Centered CareThe patient-centered care system can transform the health-care system from a disconnected set of activities into a coordinated system that makes best use of technology and resources.

• How Data-Driven Insights Can Improve Employee Health While Trimming Employer Costs

Canadian business leaders who want to do more for employee health and wellness have a silent partner in their success – data!In Canada, the costs associated with employee wellness have been on the rise. According research from Deloitte, direct and indirect expenses related to claims and absenteeism ...

• Still Evolving: Meeting the Challenges of Non-Financial Disclosure

Still Evolving: Meeting the Challenges of Non-Financial Disclosure

• Financing and Managing Business Growth

In today’s business environment, minority- and women-owned businesses (MWBEs) face steep challenges and unprecedented opportunities. By most accounts, minority communities will comprise some 40% of the U.S. population by the middle of the century. And yet, minority companies currently make up a sma...

• Leaders Fearing Employee Truths Stifle Problem Solving

Employees often fear raising negative issues in the workplace with management, fearing retribution. Employee fears are a symptom of managers who are just as fearful of harm to the organization and their positions should they recognize the issues exist.

• Creating Opportunities for People With Disabilities for Operating Success

People with disabilities can enhance organizational operating success, strengthen a culture of inclusion, and bring new perspectives to product designs and marketing. So why are so few of them still able to find employment?

• Awareness Plus Action Best Approach for Mitigating Bias

There is no magic solution to minimizing workplace bias. It takes a combination of employee awareness and organizational structures that reduce the opportunities to demonstrate bias.

• Transparency & Accountability are Basic Tenets of Sustainability Reporting

Standardization still eludes sustainability reporting, but the foundation of every report should be transparency and accountability.

• Changes To Data Privacy Views, Practices, And Laws Have Widespread Impact

Canadians are increasingly conscious of their digital privacy. As their views and behaviors change, businesses and lawmakers race to adapt.

• Power of Artificial Intelligence in the Present and the Future

Power of Artificial Intelligence in the Present and the FutureArtificial intelligence (AI) is still in its infancy, yet it is driving significant improvements in the lives of both people and business operations. If its capabilities are achieving remarkable results now, the future of AI stretches the...

• Maintaining Best-in-Class Internal Supply Chain Management

Maintaining Best-in-Class Internal Supply Chain ManagementSupply chain management can no longer put strategies in place and call it a done deal. It is important to improve the operation by taking periodic stock of what is working and what is not working for the good of internal stakeholders and the ...

• A New Look for Supply Chains in the Post-Pandemic World

The COVID-19 pandemic is driving many rapid changes in the business world, including within global and domestic supply chains. Companies have had to scramble to keep goods and services flowing, but now it is time to take the lessons learned and future-proof the supply chain for success in the coming...

• Connecting Benefits to Employee Satisfaction Through Data-Driven Benefits Insights

Successful employee benefits programs in the modern workforce deliver personalized services, increasing employee engagement and satisfaction. It takes data and analytics to achieve outcomes through more informed decision-making.

• Reputation Risk Management Maintains Integrity as a Value Proposition

Reputation risk management acknowledges that integrity has value. Risks must be monitored and addressed across the whole of the business.

• 5 Steps to a Better Workplace Environment

The average U.S. worker spends more than 1,777 hours each year in his or her office, according to the Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Minority and women business owners, especially in smaller operations where night and weekend hours are common, may spend an additional ...

• Strategies for Closing the Gap Between Sourcing and Procurement

If the right hand of sourcing and the left hand of procurement don’t know what each is doing, a costly gap with lost opportunities develops. The key to closing the gap is Supplier Relationship Management. - By Sherry Bloom

• Navigating the Healthcare Supply Chain

As the world’s economic markets are changing, so are the businesses operating within those markets. So whether it’s a large scale manufacturing production line, or a hospital supply chain, the pressure is on. Before the world tumbled into a recession, most hospitals were thought to be operating ef...

• Building a Strategy for Doing Business With Healthcare Companies

The Value of Life Sciences. - by Sharon Ross

• The Power of Peer Support to Improve Mental Health in the Workplace

Workplace mental health programs have taken a back seat to physical health programs. Now, a Peer Support program may be the breakthrough operational model that will finally give employees the support they need. - By Jeremiah Prince

• Minority Companies to Watch In The Healthcare Industry

ChemicoMays - On the Cutting EdgeChemicoMays is perhaps one of the very few chemical management companies that are process not product driven. They focus on everything that it takes to ensure the client’s goal is reached without compromising on standards. They have 50 years of experience to offer y...

• How Industry Trends Are Driving Energy Companies’ Supplier Needs

Despite the current troubled economic times, it makes sense to do business with the energy industry.

• Protecting Your Network from a Targeted Hacker Attack

Unplug your router when you are done with work, or turn off non-essential network areas at night. - by Karen White

• Opportunities and Challenges of Integrating Alternative Resources

The days of abundance within the earth are behind us and so it’s now necessary to explore our options when it comes to alternative energy. We’re all looking for green and cheap sources that fulfill all our needs; wind, hydro, geothermal, and coal are examples, but how viable are they in today’s glob...

• Designing a Mental Health Strategy to Meet Diverse Needs

People do not experience identical mental health issues, yet many workplace mental health programs are built on an assumption they do. One size does not fit all, due to generational, diversity and other differences.

• The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Prosperity™ Building A Relationship With Your Financing Source

Building a banking relationship is a large part of financing your small business. By building this relationship, you are laying the foundation for the financial future of your business. - By Morris Bocian

• 4 Ways To Improve COVID-Era Executive Emotional Intelligence

Unusual times call for exceptional executive leadership -- and it doesn’t always come naturally. Build the skills with these four ways to improve emotional intelligence among executive staff.

• CEO Turns Passion for Keeping People Safe into Successful Business

Arbill’s mission is helping family members return home safely each day. Thousands of workers have done just that thanks to Arbill’s product innovations.

• As More Corporations Move To Improve Their Supply Chain, The Challenge Is For Minority Companies To Keep Up With Changes

For most minority- and women-owned businesses, being a supplier for a large corporation presents a conundrum of sorts-maintaining their identity as a relatively small, diverse organization, while functioning at the speed and efficiency required by their customers. This is especially true today, as t...

• Energizing Diverse Suppliers: AGL Resources

Energizing Diverse Suppliers: AGL ResourcesAGL Resources — positioned to become one of the nation’s preeminent distributors of natural gas — is no stranger to the massive uptick in green thinking throughout the energy industry. Though the Georgia-based company has deep roots and is parent to the st...

• Caring and Lean: Transforming Health Care with Patient-Centered Care

Caring and Lean: Transforming Health Care with Patient-Centered CareThe patient-centered care system can transform the health-care system from a disconnected set of activities into a coordinated system that makes best use of technology and resources.

• The Rice People Built a Business on Core Values While “Failing Up”

The Rice People Built a Business on Core Values While “Failing Up”After a Devastating Business Loss, Eva Sun Started Over by Adhering to Core Values of Respect and Integrity.

• Perseverance Pays: Doing Business with Healthcare Companies

Perseverance Pays: Doing Business with Healthcare CompaniesFor small minority and women businesses, the healthcare industry is one of the most difficult sectors to break into. Finding a way in to the supply chain of big-name pharmaceutical companies like Merck and Eli-Lily, and big name healthcare c...

• Few U.S. Companies Are Effectively Dealing with Language Limitations of Foreign Workers

Few U.S. Companies Are Effectively Dealing with Language Limitations of Foreign WorkersAs foreign-born workers make up a larger share of the U.S. workforce, more employers will be dealing with language limitations. But a new survey by The Conference Board finds that a majority of employers are doing...

• Driving Change Through Innovation in Healthcare

Driving Change Through Innovation in Healthcare- by James HsuAs with any other business sector, innovation is quintessential in healthcare industries. Rapid scientific advancements in the understanding of biological processes have fuelled radical changes in nanotechnology and genetics, as well as i...

• Building A Relationship with your Financing Source

Building A Relationship with your Financing SourceBuilding a banking relationship is a large part of financing your small business. By building this relationship, you are laying the foundation for the financial future of your business.

• ChemicoMays - On the Cutting Edge

ChemicoMays - On the Cutting EdgeChemicoMays is perhaps one of the very few chemical management companies that are process not product driven. They focus on everything that it takes to ensure the client’s goal is reached without compromising on standards. They have 50 years of experience to offer y...

• The Role of Spirituality in the Workplace: The Implications and Benefits

The Role of Spirituality in the Workplace: The Implications and BenefitsUnderstanding the role spirituality plays in workplace excellence and work/life balance among workers and leaders alike.

• How Feng Shui Helps Your Mental Health

How Feng Shui Helps Your Mental Health- by Ingrid JohnsonAn ancient Chinese art, Feng Shui has moved from the annals of time back into modern life. Practitioners of Feng Shui claim that the system of aesthetics it promotes can provide a means of harnessing the power of heaven and earth to generate ...

• Identifying Great Leaders Why Some Small Businesses Thrive and Others Don’t

Identifying Great Leaders Why Some Small Businesses Thrive and Others Don’t- By Morris BocianWikipedia defines Leadership as the process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task…..

• What Happens When An Employee’s Freedom Of Religion Crosses Paths With A Company’s Interests?

What Happens When An Employee’s Freedom Of Religion Crosses Paths With A Company’s Interests?An Unholy Union What if . . . you have a contract agreement with a union that stipulates that all your workers must become members, but one recent hire refuses to join? He says doing so would violate his rel...

• Linking Human Capital Governance and Performance to Financial Performance

Linking Human Capital Governance and Performance to Financial PerformanceThe SEC has created a new 10-K disclosure requirement concerning human capital. The requirement was purposefully devoid of specifics, to allow companies the freedom to assess how their human capital impacts financial performanc...

• Protecting Ethics, Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability in Global Supply Chains

Protecting Ethics, Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability in Global Supply ChainsMany companies require their suppliers to accept a Code of Conduct addressing ethical behavior, human rights and environmental sustainability. For business leaders, the challenge is ensuring the words are put int...

• Wanted: Food and Beverage Industry Suppliers Ready to Innovate and Collaborate

The food and beverage industry is one of the most volatile industries found today due to a mix of complex factors like climate change and changing customer preferences. It is the ideal setting for innovative and collaborative suppliers to start or grow their businesses.------By James Hsu

• Transparency & Accountability are Basic Tenets of Sustainability Reporting

Transparency & Accountability are Basic Tenets of Sustainability ReportingStandardization still eludes sustainability reporting, but the foundation of every report should be transparency and accountability.

• Supply Chains and Environmental Sustainability in Emerging Economies

Global companies are increasing their presence in emerging economies, assuming new supply chain risks and environmental sustainability challenges.