PlantSuccess
Newsletter
Volume
II, Issue 16
10 July
2002
Dear
Subscriber:
I don’t
know about you, but a vacation improves my view of most everything; add good
friends and the pressures of business seem far away. Spend a week in the UK –
from the channel to London – under clear skies and another week in Western
Germany and Belgium and you’ve got the best holiday I’ve had in many
years.
Completing
the task of organizing PlantSuccess 2002 – 9-10 October at the PHL
Airport Marriott – has been made easier. We’ve learned a great deal
from three annual and four regional conferences. We’ve received support from
more than 30 leading technology providers as sponsors and from more than 70
innovative managers from industry leaders and their presentations on business
drivers and the successful implementation of engineering
IT.
Visit http://www.plantsuccess.com/ to review
the progress with PlantSuccess 2002 and previous program agendas and the many
outstanding presentations from experienced and successful industry leaders.
Spend
9-10 October 2002 with PlantSuccess at the PHL Airport Marriott. Join Hermann
Ortega, vice president of engineering and manufacturing for the Chemicals Group
of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc, as he leads another outstanding roster of
innovative managers from industry leaders discussing the best practices in their
organizations that are driving improved plant performance.
Regards,
Carl Howk.
Chairman
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Current
Links
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·
Can’t We All
Just Get Along?
A New
Executive Model – “The most
effective collaboration occurs when IT leaders think like business executives
and business executives understand the requirements, risks, and rewards of using
advanced technologies. When corporate leaders are proficient in managing both
profit-and-loss operations and new IT deployments, I refer to them as
enterprise-technology executives.”
From
Optimize Magazine, a comprehensive piece by John Logan,
non-executive chairman of the Aberdeen Group, which he founded in 1988.
READ
MORE. Logan is the author of Evolution Not Revolution: Aligning
Technology with Corporate Strategy to Increase Market Value (McGraw-Hill,
2002).
·
Developing a GPS for
the Global Supply Chain
“By now,
the use of Supply Chain Management (SCM) technology is pervasive. Users know
what can be done and the day-to-day practical aspects of using the systems to do
their jobs — having a better handle on what they want and what they do not need.
Aberdeen research indicates that the initial SCM offerings were difficult to
integrate, were overly complex to use, and frequently failed to deliver the
benefits promised though market hype.”
An
interesting Executive White Paper from the Aberdeen Group, one of the leading
consulting companies in SCM. READ MORE.
·
America: A Free
Economy, a Prosperous Nation
An
excellent reminder from FoxNews as we celebrate our opportunities because our
country’s founders were prepared to sacrifice "… our
lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor." Two
weeks with two different, very successful European families, good friends and
strong communicators made me appreciate the much greater opportunity available
to many more people in the US. Our political system as a republic is not perfect
and we face numerous challenges; however, the US is the envy of the world and
too many of us take too much of what we have for granted. Our freedoms have been
lost elsewhere; we are not immune.
Order a
copy of It’s
Getting Better All the Time, by the late economist and eternal
optimist Julian Simon co-authored with Steve
Moore, now of the Club for Growth.
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