Bonnie Nicholls

COVID-19 has forced retail pharmacies to get medications to patients in new ways. Like other retail businesses, pharmacies have had to react quickly. Patients readily accept curbside pickup, home delivery, and mail order, because they’ve grown accustomed to self-service in retail over the last few years. And during a pandemic, they must accept these methods to get their medications. Yet…there’s a bigger issue at play.

COVID-19 has disrupted the retail industry, and retail pharmacies are no exception. They have had to think fast and find creative ways to get medications to patients during the pandemic. These options, many of them involving contactless delivery, have worked as a temporary fix, but they are not long-term solutions.

WHEN THE COVID-19 pandemic prompted the Swiss government to close all of its higher education institutions in mid-March 2020, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) shut down its campus in less than three hours. Our institution’s primary campus is located in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we had to send more than 2,000 students to their homes in 90 countries.

Leidos, partnered with Saab North America, has developed a solution for the Federal Aviation Administration that will replace the paper flight progress strips used by air traffic controllers to document and coordinate the flow of air traffic at U.S. Airports

The United States is now the of petroleum and natural gas. Nearly a million wells across the country produce roughly 11 million barrels of crude oil and 4.3 million barrels of natural gas per day. While new technologies have improved oil and gas extraction, the big question for the industry is how to reliably predict well production. To help solve this puzzle, researchers like Dr. Chung-Yan Shih, a senior data scientist at Leidos, are turning to AI.

Government agencies are under increasing pressure to upgrade their information technology. Not only must they answer to government-driven IT modernization initiatives; they must also address the expectations of tech-savvy end users who are used to high-performing, mobile-friendly applications.

I interviewed three sources for this article to illustrate that CEOs — not employees — are responsible for driving organizational agility. The goal of the article was to encourage readers to read the report on which this article is based.

When the marketing staff at PayLease tore down their cubicles, they made a bold statement about transparency. It was the first physical step in the team’s agile transformation that the rest of the company could clearly observe, and it served as a conversation starter. Note: I won a 2019 first-place award for this article from the San Diego Press Club.

Software solutions and IT support help government and university scientists study mental illness

Submarines, armored vehicles and military aircraft may be as different from each other as is the sea, land, and air. But they all have something in common – they need parts.

Aviation’s impact on Americans and the U.S. economy is huge: 10 million jobs, over 2 million daily travelers, and 42 billion pounds of freight each year. With our operations and modernization help, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) keeps people and goods moving and commerce humming.

High above the Earth, instruments on four NASA satellites collect data that reveal the amount of plant life in the sea below. Scientists who study the ocean's health depend on us to accurately process and distribute that data. I won a 2019 San Diego Press Club award for this article.

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Scrum Alliance wanted a different approach for the executive summary that would introduce the results of the organization's biennial membership survey. Instead of simply highlighting the data as it had done before, the communications department wanted to position the results – and Agile -- as part of a global workforce trend. To do this, I interviewed four subject matter experts and cited additional research to provide greater context. The executive summary made a much more persuasive case for Agile than in years past.