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With all the buzz about the need to align information technology with the business, organizations may be forgetting another crucial piece to successful IT implementations - engagement between IT and upper management throughout the process. Rick Davidson, senior vice president of global information services for...

Merge Healthcare reported an annual net loss of $258.5 million, or $7.67 per diluted share, in a difficult 2006 that saw several executives resign in the wake of financial reporting errors. However, the medical imaging and software company's new chief executive says the company will...

“You don't get Superman by paying Jimmy Olson wages,” observes columnist James Carlini, which means that downsizing and other cost-cutting personnel decisions made at the height of the dotcom bust are now coming home to roost. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he notes that...

Nearly 50 Wisconsin businesses, including prominent employers like Rockwell Automation, Manpower, and GE Healthcare, have pledged to support health information technology through the use of interoperability standards. The pledge came during a recent visit by Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, who was here...

Strong economic conditions have provided more optimism for chief information officers, as more CIOs have told Robert Half that they plan to ramp up hiring in the second quarter of 2007. The company's latest hiring report indicates that 14 percent of CIOs plan to add...

Connecture has quietly become one of Wisconsin's largest software companies, but it would not have happened without some trial and error for technology executive Dan Maynard, according to Leading IT columnist Geoff Bastow. Maynard is on solid ground again after the roller coaster ride of...

For the second consecutive year, Milwaukee-based ZyStor Therapeutics has been selected to present at the annual InvestMidwest Venture Capital forum. The company, which is developing enzyme replacement therapies to treat rare genetic disorders, is looking to raise $15 million or more for Phase I clinical...

Misclassifying employees as independent contractors for unemployment insurance tax purposes can lead to an audit of your business, warns Early Stage columnist Joe Boucher. In this case, the business proprietor will have the burden of proof in defending the contractor status of all similarly classified...

Risk management, risk management, risk management. It's become the matra of IT, but not for trivial reasons, according to key presenters during the Fusion 2007 CEO-CIO Symposium. With threats hitting businesses from all directions, and with technology becoming more pervasive and complex, technologists are in...

A new partnership between GE Healthcare and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to ramp up research into breast cancer. GE Healthcare has signed a multi-year agreement with the university to establish the Center for Research Excellence in Breast Cancer Imaging. ...