Sustainable product development is a team sport; manufacturers and inventors need customers' support to help drive production costs by creating an environment where proven eco-friendly products can be mass-produced. Sustainable Product Development Sustainability in the marine industry has become…
Happy New Year! Hello, 2023! Every year I always take time to reflect on the year gone by. It is always eye-opening to see the difference in what I thought would happen vs. realizing what obstacles I never…
Where is the Marine Industries Next Generation? Like most industries worldwide, the Marine Industry was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions, with the shipping crisis and now the great resignation leaving the sector scrambling to fill jobs…
Copper Shortages- Be proactive and dry dock ready! With the rise in inflation, severe copper shortages and labor scarcity in many sectors, and the ongoing supply chain crises, 2022 is feeling the burden of the last two years. Suppliers struggle…
Today is the day! It is officially the most depressing day of the year (I bet you are glad to hear that)! It is Blue Monday! Blue Monday falls on the third Monday of January, and as the theory goes…
I will always be extremely grateful to my parents for my very first overseas trip, which was to Canada in 1973. Canada was always a big part of my life. My uncle left South Africa at 18 to join the…
Yesterday I heard that rather than solutions selling, there is a new ‘thing’ called insights selling. The best description I could find for this piece of wisdom was, “The key to insights selling is to leverage a deep understanding of…
I’m sure at some level we can all agree that we were ‘comfortable in complacency’ up until the end of 2019. A lesson learned, so never again, because wow that hurt! At the beginning of 2020 I was on vacation…
As hard as it might be at the moment to face the reality of the worldwide economic situation as a result of the Coronavirus, knowledge is power. No business leader can navigate their way through this, unless you understand exactly…