Enterprise Holdings Names Chrissy Taylor CEO
Enterprise Holdings, Inc. announced Chrissy Taylor, the company’s President and Chief Operating Officer, has been promoted to CEO effective Jan. 1.
Taylor becomes only the fourth CEO in the company’s more than 60-year history and the third generation of Taylor family CEO leadership, preceded as CEO by her father Andy Taylor and grandfather Jack Taylor.
“With her hands-on and diverse experience at all levels of the company, Chrissy is well prepared to take Enterprise into its next era of success,” said Enterprise Executive Chairman Andy Taylor.
Read more of the press release.
EU Drunk-Driving Fatalities Could Be Slashed By Zero Tolerance
According to a new report by the European Transport Safety Council, a quarter of the 25,000 EU road deaths each year are likely to be linked to alcohol.
Currently only seven out of 28 EU countries have a standard Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) limit that’s effectively equivalent to zero tolerance.
Ellen Townsend, policy director of ETSC, said: “Almost 70 years since the first scientific evidence was published on the link between drink-driving and road deaths – it is impossible to accept that thousands of families are still being ripped apart every year in the EU because of it. In 2020, we want to see the EU and Member States, coming up with a vision to end drink-driving once and for all with a combination of zero-tolerance limits, a big step-up in enforcement and wider use of technology such as mandatory use of alcohol interlocks in buses, lorries and vans.”
Read the article at International Fleet World.
How Media Coverage of Car Crashes Downplays the Role of Drivers
Road safety advocates have long complained that media outlets tend to blame pedestrians and cyclists who are hit by cars, and the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board offers proof that they’re right.
News stories overwhelmingly (but often subtly) shift blame onto pedestrians and cyclists, by treating crashes as isolated incidents, and by failing to include input from planners, engineers, and other road safety experts.
Sentence structure and word choice matter. “A pedestrian was hit by a car” centers the victim getting hit. Reports may describe a vehicle doing something rather than a driver (‘‘a car jumped the curb’’ versus ‘‘a driver drove over the curb’’). The use of object-based language was particularly jarring in the case of hit-and-run collisions where ‘the vehicle drove away.
Read the article at CityLab.
Disruptive Marketing: What It Is and Why You Need It
By John Wysseier, CEO and President, The CEI Group, Inc.
In today's rapidly evolving world of business, disruption is both a universal opportunity and threat. That's why companies that want to survive and thrive need to practice disruptive marketing.
If there's one overriding characteristic that distinguishes disruptive marketing from traditional marketing, it's the extent to which disruptive marketing takes advantage of digital information technology and the Internet, to which I will add another: disruptive marketing is driven by customer needs and desires.
READ MORE for a description detailing the differing characteristics between traditional marketing and disruptive marketing.
The Story is in the Data
By Kurt Thearling, Vice President, Analytics, WEX
Analyzing data is built into our brains.
The cavemen analyzed data to understand animal migration and hunting patterns to help them survive. Sailors analyzed data to make charting improvements on their ocean voyages. Astronauts use data to connect to places mankind had only dreamed of going.
In a sense, we’re still exploring and learning new things about how data can be collected and used. We often bring together new data, creating endless combinations and layers to answer a plethora of questions. By combining data in new ways, we may even answer questions that we didn’t know we had.
But, let’s start at the beginning. For a fuel payments company like WEX, that means right at the pump.
