Industrial Strength Good Deeds Part 2
The last post concerned giving something to the employees; this one covers taking something very precious and valuable from them. In many ways, this one […]
Month: November 2018
Industrial Strength Good Deeds Part 1
The end-of-year holidays always make me remember the different ways companies marked the occasions. In later years, perhaps because of my long things-to-do-before-year-end list, it […]
A Time for Gratitude
An early winter storm has knocked out our Internet connection as I write this. A startling reminder of just how much we rely on the […]
Beautiful on the Inside
Higher Quality Internal Gears Automotive gear manufacturers have implemented significant improvements in external planetary gear manufacturing yielding quieter gears. In addition, process stability has increased […]
What Should You Save?
While we are on the topic of record keeping, it is a good time to talk about what data needs to be preserved for future […]
Marking the Trail
Anyone who has moved understands the importance of marking boxes with both contents and location. One of the great things about our online Gear Technology […]
What Do You Really Need to Know?
I am pretty certain I told this story before, but it is worth repeating in the context of preserving corporate memory. When AGMA first offered […]
Permanent Records
Avoiding corporate (or institutional) amnesia may require action immediately. Almost everything we once thought of as a “permanent” storage media has let us down. I […]
Institutional Memory
There is an old joke that a consultant is someone who borrows your watch in order to tell you what time it is. Unfortunately, there […]