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    Toward a smarter industry

    Oct. 24, 2017
    Thomas Wilk explores how data-driven decisions are generating secondary benefits.

    Back in the ’90s, I had the chance to simultaneously teach for The Ohio State University and work with the environmental restoration team at Battelle Memorial Institute. Part of what made those years so interesting (beyond the rise and fall of grunge music) was that each of those jobs informed the other.

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    About the Author

    Thomas Wilk | editor in chief

    Thomas Wilk joined Plant Services as editor in chief in 2014. Previously, Wilk was content strategist / mobile media manager at Panduit. Prior to Panduit, Tom was lead editor for Battelle Memorial Institute's Environmental Restoration team, and taught business and technical writing at Ohio State University for eight years. Tom holds a BA from the University of Illinois and an MA from Ohio State University

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