It was Monday morning, March 16, 2020 and you had just been told that beginning on Wednesday, March 18th everyone will begin to work from home. You previously scheduled your team for a training session to be held on April 6, 2020 in the company’s training facility. …
For too long South Carolina has lagged in workforce development, leaving our state short on skilled hands, headquartered companies, research, and development. THE ANSWER: An incumbent workforce of native South Carolinians, grown and nurtured inside one of our 46 counties, educated in our public schools and in our…
All for-profit businesses exist to make money. Manufacturers do this by producing and selling a product. What is the one thing that inhibits a manufacturer’s ability to make money? The answer is variation. Variation negatively impacts a manufacturer’s business results whether it relates to safety, reliability, quality,…
Virtual Annual Meeting “Draws” Hundreds GREENVILLE, S.C. – June 16, 2020 – The Greenville Area Development Corporation (GADC), charged with promoting and enhancing quality of life in Greenville County by facilitating job growth and investment, today announced a positive economic outlook accented by the addition of Fox Hill Business Park in Fountain Inn — the […]
Successful businesses do “what they have to do.” One thing they “have to do” is remain properly positioned in their clients’ mind. It’s hard to talk, write or think about any business topic without filtering it through the temporarily ever-present “pandemic.” Collectively, we hear about and applaud…
As employers face the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, Human Resource and Talent Acquisition efforts are being scrutinized in ways like never before. Now, more than ever, we need to evaluate the landscape of our workforce and consider making changes and adjustments that will encourage culture strength, internal growth,…
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Jantize America offers misting and fogging disinfectant systems to combat COVID-19 and many other viruses and bacteria. These systems cover 10-times more surface area than traditional cleaning, disinfecting spray and wipe methods. The process does not replace traditional cleaning practices but serves as an additional disinfecting method. It is becoming the standard in surgical rooms […]
Two Clemson University freshmen are thinking outside the box– and shining a light inside it– to combat COVID-19 at the grocery store. Carleigh Coffin and Ashlyn Soule said they are designing a device that would be located at supermarket checkout lanes. Groceries would be placed on the…
Researchers have developed a new way of simulating heart attacks in a lab and then using the engineered tissue to screen drugs that show promise for treating patients with heart damage, according to a new article in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering. Corresponding author Ying Mei, an…