MARC3
The Midwest
Academic & Resilience Cloud Computing Consortium (MARC3)
is a non profit group of colleges, universities and industry
partners investigating all aspects of Critical Infrastructure (e.g.
CYBER SECURITY,
Energy, Waste, Water, Telecommunications, Financial, Education etc..)
resilience-sustainability, and the impact on same through the
leveraging of cloud computing infrastructure. The goal of our members
is to make MARC3 a regional-national hub of academic and
industry expertise/excellence in resilience-sustainability best
practices across all critical infrastructure. Proper use of cloud
technology will improve resilience against natural/manmade
catastrophe, in addition to enhancing sustainability of the
local-regional-national-global economy. MARC3will continue
its stewardship of fostering creative thought leadership through the
collaboration of its diverse membership makeup including enterprise,
small-midsize business, academia, and government. Job creation, and economic prosperity is an immediate focus of MARC3. We are seeing measurable results(Created Thousands of Jobs, and Tens of Millions of Dollars in Savings) from a sustainable effort underway (underwritten by MARC3) to better synchronize-align (continuously changing) business requirements, with local-regional-national universities & community colleges. Economic sustainability can be realized through “Onshore Sourcing” driven through these educational institutions. Participating organizations can realize significant savings over their existing process of workforce acquisition, while enhancing the overall synchronicity of business-technology requirements for participating enterprise, schools, and the thousands of Small Midsize Business (SMB) within the school districts.
We continue to find new areas of opportunity for job creation
including those that for years have formed the “Back Bone of The U.S.
Economy”, and today serve as the critical lynchpin for the seamless
operational sustainability of all commerce over the internet.
Commercial Truck Driving,
and all aspects that focus on
Highway Transportation Safety, and Security
are a strategic, and critical focus of our efforts.
We welcome an opportunity to discuss
thoughts on how your firm might participate in enhancing what we are
doing, while shortening the cycle time of getting it done
Upcoming Meeting
Location: Washington D.C. (Meetings
Ongoing)
Nationwide, all companies (cross-industry) dependent on commercial
trucking are having “Great” difficulty obtaining commercial truck driver
candidates. All across-the-board
incentives are found to be Seriously
Lacking.
·
As
the economy improves, all firms dependent on truck transportation will
have mounting issues with moving products as there will be greater demand
on commercial truck capacities (all) dependent on a continually shrinking
supply of drivers.
·
The cost of turnover for carriers is continually increasing where
the average cost for driver recruiting is $5,000 per driver. Shortage of
commercial truck drivers in 2015 was approximately 50,000 that would peg
the cost of recruitment alone at $250 million dollars. This cost is aside
from the economic/safety/security domino repercussions as it forces
trucking fleets to move more product with less manpower. Key
questions include:
Do you own a fleet, and/or
Outsource to 3PL providers? Is there a problem with your
Logistics Services? How do you know? When would you know? What is the business exposure if
your products cannot be shipped to your clients? Can you manage what you don’t
measure?
Consequences if you do not prevent costly, image-damaging transportation
Hiccups? Midwest Academic
and Resilience Cloud Computing Consortium (MARC³) www.MARC3.org ((Closed
Meetings)) ((Non-Disclosure
Access Required of All Participants))
Agenda: TBD
RSVP to John Jones
johnjones@marc3.info .
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