I read your article, “Let’s Get Serious”, on the Wisconsin Technology Network webpage the week of Harley Davidson Motor Company’s 100th Anniversary party here in Milwaukee. Your comment regarding manufacturing struck me the wrong way having been involved in Wisconsin manufacturing for the past...
Wireless Innovations - Key to Reviving the Economy We're back from last week's DEMOmobile 2003, and the experience has only strengthened our belief that wireless and mobile innovations are key to reviving the overall economy....
MADISON – Remember this summer’s “property tax freeze” budget proposal? Legislative Republicans voted for it because they thought it was great politics; many of them were less convinced the freeze was good policy and secretly hoped Doyle would veto it....
Wisconsin could be a role model for our universities in the future - that's why senior British education figures are checking it out. Joanna Walters investigates:...
Simple rules if they stand the test of time can eventually become part of the culture. One such rule is very straight forward, and it’s called the eighty-twenty rule. I first became aware of its significance as a young computer salesman some 35 years ago....
Oy. I've got three more days before I can share the details of the products that will be at DEMOmobile. Until then, you're going to have to trust me that this is an exciting lot of products. (If you haven't registered to be at the...
MADISON – I might just as easily have datelined this column Chicago or Minneapolis, because last week found me in both of the economic powerhouses that bookend the “I-Q Corridor.” It was a reminder that better days lie ahead for Upper Midwest tech companies that...
MADISON – Practical ideas for spurring capital investment are included in economic development plans released this week by Gov. Jim Doyle and state Senate Republicans, said Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council....
SAN MATEO, CA - With the children now back in school and a general air of a "new year" upon us, we have the opportunity to demonstrate that the grownups have learned a few lessons from the pain of the economic...
Attracting a workforce for Wisconsin’s Knowledge Economy
MADISON – The bread and butter of Wisconsin’s economic growth will be getting the big things right: Finding enough investment capital to transfer our best technology to the marketplace, controlling taxes and regulation, maintaining a strong education...