As is so often the case with any form of legislation, each individual law represents a compromise built around a coalition of diverse forces. In the case of energy and electricity, one needs to look no further than the way most states reward regulated utilities...
Strategy and technology combine into one of the most volatile mixtures available to modern business. After numerous singed eyebrows or much worse, we’ve learned that randomly throwing matches at that combination is not a good idea. Unfortunately, many organizations seem to have translated that lesson...
A joint effort of industry, government, and more than 200 universities (including the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University), Internet2 is leading the way toward revolutionary new network technologies and high-speed Internet-based applications. But effective access to Internet2’s main infrastructure is still limited. In...
MADISON – A few days before Forbes magazine released its annual rankings of best cities for business and careers, author and futurist Joel Kotkin spoke in Madison about the rise of small and medium-sized communities as places to live and work. His conclusion was simple:...
Web sites have endured a hard struggle, and somehow survived where other traditional marketing tools and old principals failed. Now the same sites and domain names must face harsher realities once again, all to ensure high visibility and exposure. Today without visibility, on e-commerce, Web...
MADISON – At the UW-Madison College of Engineering, Dean Paul Peercy and his faculty are weighing ideas for ensuring that today’s engineering education includes what it takes to be competitive in today’s increasingly global environment....
Six Apart, the San Mateo-based start-up that is leading the blog tools market space, has all the makings of a Silicon Valley start-up legend....
TOC – Why common sense in project management isn’t always so common Despite more than 40 years of critical path-project scheduling, most projects are still late, over budget and without the results they promised. What’s the problem? What should we do? After the project is over...
The business media has been filled with stories critical of the ethics of contemporary business executives and organizations. But, this is much less so in the academic literature. A noteworthy exception is "Beyond Selfishness” by Henry Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunal Basu, in the Fall...
CHICAGO – Professional networking has traditionally been a face-to-face interaction in which people meet for the first time in person. Since the technology boom, the networking landscape has changed thanks to the introduction of innovations such as e-mail list servs and online social networking. People...