Web sites are an important resource for consumers using traditional advertising. A recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh identifies the affects the Internet has on advertising media....
Notebook computers have become true desktop replacements while fulfilling -- via integrated wireless -- the ultimate requirements for go anywhere, do anything mobile computing. As importantly, the newest notebooks from Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba have broken the traditional price barriers that have made notebooks a luxury...
The time has come to reexamine the federal policy on stem cell research.
Wisconsin finds itself at the center of this debate, because our state is the birthplace of human embryonic stem cell research. In 1998, Dr. Jamie Thomson...
MADISON – Back in his math teacher days, Al Jacobs taught students about the power of doubling by talking about lily pads. Imagine a colony of lily pads on a pond and the pads doubled in area every day: How long would it take for...
The heat of technological innovation sometimes starts out-of-control wildfires of politics, process collapses or budget challenges that rage through your IT shop. If you’re lucky, you’ve got some folks who are good in a crisis and can be rapidly shifted from their regular duties to...
I recently participated in a roundtable discussion with HR executives in London, UK. The participants were managers responsible for talent management and resourcing strategies for elite multinational firms. The subject of discussion was “agile resourcing” – i.e., how to make the work place and the...
Over the past couple of weeks, I've come across two interesting products that are making strong entrances into developing growth markets. The first, with enhancements announced today by Terra Lycos, is Blog Builder, an elegantly simple, yet complete, blog creation tool and hosting service. (You'll find...
MADISON – The task of producing tech-savvy workers and managers for Wisconsin’s knowledge-based economy cannot be handled by any single institution. It will require partnerships between business, education and government – and, within that triangle, cooperation throughout the “K-through-gray” learning spectrum....
Wisconsin leaders are major players in this effort – will entrepreneurs seize the moment? MADISON – The health care industry – which represents one-seventh of the U.S. economy – is about to change the way it does business. This means that there is a whole lot...
A friend of mine at a small college once threw a party for an incoming professor of Latin. At some point in the evening, my friend’s 10-year old daughter was presented and asked to give her name. She proudly piped up that her name was...