Operations Management

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A Beginner’s Guide to Business Continuity

At its crux, business continuity is your organization’s ability to maintain its essential functions during a crisis. It defines how well your organization weathers a disaster and keeps its critical systems online. To that end, having...7 min read

The Next Normal: A 4-Stage Recovery Roadmap for Heavy Industries

What will the world look like when we emerge from this global pandemic? The truth is, no one knows for sure. With this uncertain future, leaders should create an agile infrastructure to prepare for a different reality than the one...5 min read

5 Simple Ways to Motivate Factory Workers and Run Your Production Line Like a Well-Oiled Machine

As team leaders, production managers have the essential responsibility of understanding how to manage factory production. While there are countless corporate cheerleading tactics that motivate office workers, finding the right strategy...6 min read

Enterprise Risk Management: What Every Business Leader Needs to Know

When things are going well for a company, it’s hard to fathom them going wrong. But leaders always need to prepare for worst-case scenarios. Weaving enterprise risk management into your overall business plan is an essential part...9 min read

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7 Key Trends in Operations Management in a Post-COVID World

When you’re running a business, there are two ways to increase profit: Increase revenue Decrease cost Let’s focus on number two. Even seemingly insignificant savings can add up over time. Shaving just two cents off your landed...8 min read

Best Business Continuity Tools that Create Organizational Resilience

As we’ve quickly learned, companies face any number of threats that can suddenly bring their operations to a standstill. The unexpected can strike without warning and come in many forms—from cyber attacks to extreme weather to...7 min read

4 Novel Ways to Transform Your Factory into a Green Manufacturing Plant

Everyone is “going green” nowadays, from solar-powered USB bikinis to repurposing children’s artwork. And manufacturing companies are leading the way. With around 315 million manufacturing workers worldwide, companies are...5 min read

The Complete Guide to Crisis Management for Every Business

Check out any credible news source for a few minutes, and you’ll discover that somewhere in the world there is always a need for crisis management. Sometimes the scale of a crisis is global as with the current coronavirus pandemic,...19 min read

How to Boost Employee Productivity in the Age of Automation

1830. Tailors are rioting in the streets of France, setting factories on fire to destroy the enemy—the sewing machine. They believed this advancement in clothing manufacturing threatened their livelihood. When the hysteria died down,...6 min read

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Beekeeper Launches Free Coronavirus Package to Help Support Health and Safety Communication

For the past few weeks, companies around the world have had to make major adjustments to normal operations to keep customers and staff safe and healthy. The global public health crisis caused by coronavirus has forced desk workers...4 min read

Logistics Communication: How to Overcome The Top 3 Challenges Companies Face

Globalization has made speed, efficiency, and flexibility necessities for logistics companies looking to prosper in the 21st century. A common denominator among these characteristics is effective logistics communication, which has...3 min read