ASIA

In this expanded web edition, Dr. John Kasarda spotlights a leading Asian investment region and prime logistics gateway to Southeast Asia that has emerged along Thailand’s Eastern seaboard.

EDITOR’S VIEW

Nearly as exciting as the Games themselves were the over-the-top ways we could enjoy them.

INVESTMENT PROFILE: SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

San Bernardino County builds a green energy hub.

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In an annual series of data analysis not even INC. itself performs, we examine the geographic distribution of the recently unveiled INC. 5000 companies by state, metro area and industry sector. Today’s focus: the top states.

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Does this four-day work week after Labor Day suit your fancy? Would you just as soon do this all the time? You’re not alone, as Ron Starner explored in our Workforce 2024 publication in “The 4-Day Work Week: Has Its Moment Arrived?” Work has begun on Workforce 2025, to be published later this year.

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DHL on Tuesday released the seventh edition of the DHL Logistics Trend Radar report, which outlines the predicted time to adoption of 17 social and business trends and 23 technological trends and their impact on logistics. “The speed of transformation in logistics is still accelerating,” said Klaus Dohrmann, vice president and head of Innovation and Trend Research at DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation. “Alongside the exciting opportunities of AI unlocking unprecedented levels of efficiency and innovation, the focus on sustainable, resilient supply chains will remain at the forefront of our customers’ strategic priorities.”

The report is based on insights from what DHL said was thousands of engagements from more than 13,000 visitors to its four DHL Innovation Centers in Germany, Singapore, the United States and the United Arab Emirates. “Additionally,” said the company, “the ‘DHL Warehouse of Innovation’ platform facilitates collaboration with startups, researchers and investors to co-create future-oriented innovations alongside DHL.”

Photo by Capt. Joe Legros, 173rd Airborne Brigade, courtesy of U.S. Army and DVIDS

This archive photo from September 2018 shows Sky Soldiers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade jumping into Hohenfels, Germany, to begin the certification phase of Saber Junction, a U.S. Army Europe-directed exercise designed to assess the readiness of the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade to execute unified land operations in a joint, combined environment and to promote interoperability with participating allies and partner nations. Saber Junction 24 got underway this week with more than 4,500 participants. in Hohenfels, located in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria.