In the workplace: Successful mergers require a new ‘we’
We are hearing stories every day of new M&A activity, accelerating valuations and increasing deal flow.
We are hearing stories every day of new M&A activity, accelerating valuations and increasing deal flow.
Luke Zhang moved alone to the United States from China in 2010 to pursue better educational opportunities. He now helps Resultant clients identify and solve problems using data science.
Indiana isn’t seeing the intense heat waves and flash-flooding that other parts of the world are experiencing this summer, but models show our winters will dwindle, our summers will have many more days above 95ºF and rainfall will continue to increase.
On July 26, at least 10 hospitals across the Indianapolis area issued messages to ambulance drivers that their emergency rooms needed to limit incoming patients. Please try to find another destination, hospitals said. This is an extreme example of a phenomenon that has become much more common in recent months—ambulance diversions.
Transit is absolutely an important component of successful, livable places. But it’s all the things that surround transit that the new zoning overlay addresses.
In some ways, remote work has made communication feel less “human.” Conversations are more like transactions when every interaction is formal, scheduled and agenda-driven.
The relentless drive to optimize created brittleness—single points of failure where one disruption could cause the entire business to collapse.
The nominees for the Indiana-based awards include newly-launched startups and growing scale-up companies that have developed technologies for a variety of industries, including health care, transportation and logistics, and business intelligence and operations.
Eventually, the business scales to the point where no single person can see everything happening (even the CEO), let alone be involved in it all. And a shift happens.
Resultant, which offers technology consulting and analytics, says it opened the Odon office to better support its clients at the nearby Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane.
Rotation can’t be used as an excuse to shuffle mediocre performers around just because it’s easier than exiting them, or as a tactic to keep truly unhappy or poor culture fit employees from quitting for a few more months.
Indianapolis-based technology consulting and analytics firm Resultant has acquired Teknion Data Solutions, which is based in the Dallas metro area. It’s the fourth and largest acquisition Resultant has made in the past three years.
Today, every business leader needs to have the same level of acumen and usability with “technology” levers as with “people” and “process” levers.
Mike Vance is executive vice president of professional services at Resultant.
It’s not enough to give people access to the data; they must also be able to make sense of it.
The best (and only) use case for a reorganization is to solve a specific business problem.
Indianapolis-based Steak n Shake has spent $50 million to eliminate table service at its restaurants in favor of self-service ordering—an investment the company says has allowed it to regain profitability after three straight years of losses.
I prefer the phrase “work-life congruence” because it puts “life” and “work” on the same team instead of pitting them against each other.
Fischer Farms will use the funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand its own environmentally friendly initiatives and help other farmers adopt regenerative farming practices.
Mark Caswell, who led the Indianapolis-based technology consulting and analytics firm through four acquisitions in four years, has been replaced by a new chief executive.