How to succeed in tough times: Be resourceful, watch the details, and live up to your commitments. “Resourcefulness” is the one-word answer to what a CIO needs to have in 2009. So says James Knight, global CIO of Warren, N.J.-based insurer Chubb, in a telephone interview conducted...
On February 17, 2009, President Barack H. Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), commonly referred to as the federal stimulus package. As summarized in our Legal News Alert issued on February 18, 2009, a significant portion of the...
In Michael Rosen's last column, he took a look down the road of U.S. venture capital during 2008. He promised a further look at what happened in key states around the U.S. and the Midwest. Of the $28.3 billion raised in venture capital last year,...
Is it true that we're able to reach the same number of users in shorter and shorter time frames with each new technology. It certainly seems so when compared to the decades it took to get the telephone and electricity out to the world....
SAN JOSE, CA – The global hospital information systems market will climb past $35 billion by 2015, according to a new forecast by Global Industry Analysts. The United States represents the largest market in the world. The U.S. hospital information system market is experiencing...
Some ethanol plants were announced with a big splash, including a YouTube video featuring former Gov. Tommy Thompson. But now, Wisconsin's ethanol and biodiesel industries face some financial messes. The state's largest ethanol plant, Renew Energy in Jefferson, has filed for bankruptcy. A proposed $195 million plant that...
Twelve UW-Madison faculty members have been named finalists to compete for five spots in the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, the public part of a $150 million public-private research building going up on the 1300 block of University Avenue. The institute, to focus on biotechnology, nanotechnology and...
The U.S. economic recovery is at least a year out, slamming the brakes on IT and other business capital initiatives, according to a broad-based survey of 200 companies conducted in the fourth quarter of 2008 by the Boston-based Delphi Group. Spending on information technology initiatives...
A consortium of three Midwest colleges will develop educational programs in conjunction with their digital fabrication laboratories (FAB LAB) thanks to a collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation. The $670,000 grant is aimed at integrating digital fabrication technology into science/technical education programs. A...
Layoffs are hard on everyone, but your team could grow stronger despite budget cutbacks. My last two columns have talked about conducting triage on your IT projects and what you should do in shutting down those projects that don’t make the cut. Now, what about your IT...