
Art Anderson
Art Anderson is Managing Principal for AH Anderson Consulting, LLC.
He has more than 30 years of industrial gas business and consulting experience, most of which was spent at Air Products where he held leadership roles in sales, marketing, product management and regional P&L management for the full portfolio of offerings.
Contact Info
- Website:
- www.ahandersonconsulting.com
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The business of hydrogen
When considering which segments of the industrial gas industry have taken off over the past 5-10 years, hydrogen invariably dominates the conversation. In this feature for gasworld, Art Anderson explains the past, present and future conversations around hydrogen.
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The business of helium
An exploration of the past, present and future business models in the world of helium, from Art Anderson.
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Understanding Lean Six Sigma
Understanding Lean Six Sigma, how it came to be, and how it’s driving efficiencies in the gases industry, with Art Anderson.
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Maintaining customer relations (and remote working)
All companies have been faced with the challenge of maintaining robust and consistent customer relations in the midst the pandemic, writes Art Anderson in his latest feature exclusively for gasworld.
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The new playbook
On a worldwide scale, more people than ever are engaged in remote work. According to Global Workplace Analytics, this type of work has expanded 10 times faster than other areas of the workforce over the last decade.
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Implementing e-commerce systems
It seems that almost every article in the e-commerce space references or touches on the impact of Amazon, and for good reason. It is now the largest e-commerce company in the world and largest retailer by market capitalisation.
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Business resilience
A few years ago (2017), Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, published a book with Adam Grant called ‘OPTION B’ on the topic of building personal ‘resilience’ after the tragic loss of her husband. The book offered compelling insights for dealing with personal hardships in our own lives and how ...
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Strategic workforce planning
Former chairperson and CEO of Xerox Inc., Anne Mulcahy, is often credited with the quote, “..our people are our greatest asset… our competitive advantage.” However, for a large number of industrial companies, there is a growing concern over recruiting and retaining these skilled and critical ‘assets’ due to the dynamic ...
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Driving customer focus and efficiency
Balancing customer focus and efficiency is absolutely essential for any company that desires to maximie its ability to attract, serve and retain customers through the various economic cycles. Covid-19 has taught us that companies that were ‘deficient’ on one or both of these two aspects are prone to suffering severe ...
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Customer and process: Balancing the organisation
When running a business division or even an entire company, there is constant friction between being customer focused and being process-focused. It’s a constructive friction that often swings like a pendulum strongly in one direction or another, due to changes in customer expectations and end-market conditions.
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Centralising your functional resources
The decision of centralisation vs decentralisation of functional resources has been a regular evaluation by small and large businesses for decades. No company is fully centralised or decentralised, instead there are varying degrees of both.
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Moving to ERP systems
The use of the term ‘ERP’ (Enterprise Resource Planning) can get some senior executives and business owners a little nervous. Some recall the implementation failures during ERP’s early days, or the lower than expected returns on the investment (ROI) for some of their peers.
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The importance of a digital strategy
The concept or maybe the value of a digital strategy started becoming more evident over the last 10+ years as some digital capabilities (social media, mobile, e-commerce, IIOT) have scaled and gone mainstream.
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Talent management
The topic ‘Future of Work’ has become a mainstream talking point over the last 5-7 years, principally driven by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on the workforce in the not too distant future.
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Talent management
The topic ‘Future of Work’ has become a mainstream talking point over the last 5-7 years, principally driven by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on the workforce in the not too distant future.