Experienced and diverse boards of directors should be playing crucial roles now for local companies of every size – from the biggest Top 250 corporations to the smallest family-owned firms. Every board’s normal oversight functions are complicated by how the pandemic…
Lanning is the SBA’s State of Hawai‘i Small Business Person of the Year for 2020 What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Our latest pivots have been a second…
What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? At Shifted Energy, we primarily do three things: enable utilities to stabilize the grid, accelerate renewable energy integration and engage customers in innovative programs. We do that by making a smarter…
What has been Weddings of Hawaii’s latest pivot or innovation? The Hawai‘i wedding industry is at a complete standstill. As a result, our team is taking this time to revamp our social media, website, marketing campaigns and all other forms…
How are you coping with the COVID-19 crisis? Being a company full of safety and health professionals, we were fortunate to recognize the potential impact of this crisis early and began to talk to our team and clients in late…
What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Two days after our farmers markets were shut down, we started running a CSA Program (Community Supported Agriculture) through our business. We launched the website and took orders as we were…
What has been your nonprofit’s latest pivot or innovation? We are seeking to convert, in a compressed time frame, from on-site clinical visits to remote tele-health visits. We have trained 100 medical providers in four weeks. We have developed daily…
What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? We are creatively trying to help our island go virtual! What has been your company’s latest opportunity or opportunities? From hosting virtual craft fairs to helping spread messages about free food…
How are you coping amid the COVID-19 crisis? So far, we’ve been fortunate to have things be fairly business as usual. There are many other industries that have to cope with far more than us. We have been 100% remote…
