A new report from Aberdeen Group provides insight into how manufacturing organizations can achieve best-in-class employee performance management.

The study, conducted in May 2010 and involving 65 human resources and line of business professionals from the manufacturing sector, shows a strong link between talent management processes – such as goal alignment and employee development – and the overall success of manufacturing organizations.

It’s no secret that manufacturing organizations are faced with a number of challenges. [...]

I saw this post on the Fast Company blogs that at first seemed unrelated to what we talk about here. It was all about the increasing emphasis on companies to measure environmental outputs like carbon, etc: