The Weekly Scale: May 31st, 2021

This week at MarketScale, we kicked off a new series with post-show drinks, explored the labor shortage companies are facing, and filmed the pilot episode of our newest original series – The Next Great American Food Franchise. Go ahead and cover up your firework burns. It’s the start of a new week, and it’s time to scale up.

COVID vaccinations are flowing freely, and businesses are opening back up — but where are the workers? Tyler Marpes, Director of Business Development, joined Beyond Technology by Acrelec to outline the labor challenges facing the QSR industry and how to find your competitive advantage in hiring and retaining talent.

Dustin Odham is no stranger to MarketScale, having been a guest on EdTech Today and the Voices of eLearning. This week on the Change Starts Here podcast, Odham explored how he wants to help schools recognize their biggest assets — their educators — and help them prevent the teacher burnout that we have seen in the past year.

Why do we build the technology systems we build? What goes on behind the scenes? This week, we launched our newest series, There’s More to IT. Host Jason Claybrook will explore the foundational questions about the technology that’s driving us all forward. Claybrook and his crew of co-hosts will be exploring the cybersecurity behind our nation’s critical infrastructure, how municipalities need to approach technology rollouts, and the sustainability behind cryptocurrencies in upcoming episodes.

The world has opened back up, summer is just starting, and business is booming. This week on Say Yes To Travel, host Sarah Dandashy visits with one former hotel exec and explores his goal to create an ecosystem of connectivity in which people can travel from their door to their destination and trust that their personal health security will be verified every step of the way.

The MarketScale Retail Roundtable is back and, this time, it might be our most star-studded affair yet as we explore how brands are building the retail experience for brand loyalty.

The panel will include:

John Federman, JRNI

Ned Hill, Position Imaging

Laura Davis-Taylor, InReality

Derek Alley, VCC

Make sure to follow along for future roundtables. We will also be diving into the primary obstacles preventing renewable energy from providing a larger piece of the energy demand on June 7th.

I’ll be back next Monday for The Weekly Scale but, until then, if you know of a story that you want us to cover, let us know with the hashtag B2BNeverSleeps.

Follow us on social media for the latest updates in B2B!

Twitter – @MarketScale
Facebook – facebook.com/marketscale
LinkedIn – linkedin.com/company/marketscale

Follow us on social media for the latest updates in B2B!

Image

Latest

team
When Your Team Becomes the Bottleneck
February 25, 2026

In a candid take on organizational blind spots, Mollie Gaby, Principal at CG Infinity, highlights a hard truth many leaders avoid: sometimes your biggest pain point isn’t your technology or your strategy — it’s your staff. A common red flag is resistance to change. When team members are unwilling to explore new tools, automate…

Read More
asset visibility
Diagnosing Your Capital Asset Health: Why Asset Visibility Is the New Financial Imperative in Healthcare
February 25, 2026

Hospitals and surgery centers own millions of dollars in equipment — but owning assets and having actionable visibility into them are two different things. Most systems maintain inventories, yet many struggle with outdated records, fragmented tracking, and limited insight into useful life or service contracts. With nearly half of U.S. hospitals reporting negative operating…

Read More
CFO
From Public Accounting to CFO: The Leadership Wake-Up Call
February 25, 2026

The CFO seat is being rewritten in real time. Today’s finance leaders are expected to drive growth, lead enterprise-wide systems transformations, and shape AI strategy—while still keeping the close, controls, and capital story airtight. Gartner reports that 59% of finance leaders are already using AI in the finance function, underscoring how rapidly the role is…

Read More
restorative practices
Building Safer Schools Through Restorative Practices
February 24, 2026

School Safety Today podcast, presented by Raptor Technologies. In this episode of Principals of Change, host Dr. Amy Grosso sits down with D’Jon Pitchford, Assistant Principal at Kelly Lane Middle School in Pflugerville ISD, to explore what school safety really means. Pitchford reframes safety as more than physical security—emphasizing trust, restorative practices, campus culture,…

Read More