Mar 19, 2025
We chat with talent recruitment and retention guru Dr. Bharani Nagarathnam - who leads Texas A&M's Master of Industrial Distribution program - about a range of vital talent topics and to preview his culture-focused roundtable discussions at our May SHIFT conference and a standalone session there based around fostering...
Mar 11, 2025
Kevin Reid-Morris has led much of MDM's qualitative AI industry research over the past few years, and he's set to share the results of his major two-year project at our SHIFT conference. Here, he and Tom Gale discuss the transformative impact of AI in distribution and that project which identified over 50 practical AI...
Feb 26, 2025
From Wall Street to the warehouse — twice. Two executives from A&M Industrial's leadership team share their parallel journeys back to their (now third generation) family-owned distribution business. Hear how innovation, value-added sales and market expansion are built on the foundation of deep company values that...
Feb 5, 2025
At NAW's marquee annual event, we had mini-interviews with 10 different distributor executives about their company's biggest initiatives in 2025; the industry's top challenges and reasons for optimism; and what they get out of the event.
Jan 29, 2025
Two longtime power transmission/motion control industry veterans, Brian Short and Bill Shepard, join to discuss career retrospection; what’s changed in the market over the past four decades; their thoughts on AI; and the role of product information management, including how two leading associations are driving...