What is a software-intensive business? And why does it matter? Columnist and software consultant Robert Merrill has a few ideas, including the following advice: an organization must never forget that it is a software-intensive business and not a software company, and keep advancing its core...
COMCAST is going to limit the amount that Internet customers can download for any given month and so are other cable companies, laments columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he openly wonders what the era of metered usage will bring. ...
Should America get out of ALL manufacturing and retool for design and innovation? That and other recommendations are among the five immutable trajectories of the future, according to Innovation Zone columnist Tom Koulopoulos. The demise of manufacturing would cause ample heartburn in Wisconsin, but Koulopoulos...
Everyone has heard of stem cell research pioneer James Thomson, but the full array of Wisconsin's scientific talent will be on display next month during the annual World Stem Cell Summit in Madison. Names like Clive Svendsen, Timothy Kamp, and Alta Charro also are likely...
When I was a boy in junior high school, millions of young Americans like me were called to the noble patriotism of service by John F. Kennedy. I felt then - and I know now - that his words were directed at me. I carried his call...
Fair or not, if you are an entrepreneur here in Wisconsin the implications of being in flyover country are serious. You face a number of funding and execution challenges your Silicon Valley and Corridor counterparts are generally spared. Let's explore some of those...
America's economic malaise is dampening the ability of biotech companies to raise money from the financial markets, a traditional source of biotech capital, according to Yer Biotech Blues columnist Michael Rosen. Fortunately, something is sustaining the biotech industry, and that something is the voracious appetite...
Some cities and regions are dying because they have not provided the right infrastructure platform to attract and maintain new corporate endeavors, according to columnist James Carlini. That infrastructure not only includes roads, bridges, and rail, but also broadband connectivity....
Wisconsin is a state with an aging population, a below-average percentage of adults with four-year college degrees, and wages that are below the per capita U.S. average. How can the state build and retain the workforce its needs to prosper in the 21st century economy?...
Kelly Fitzsimmons admitted something that she probably wouldn’t have said to her company’s investors. Fitzsimmons, co-founder and CEO of the Wisconsin-based Comic Wonder, a web site dedicated to the fine art of joke telling, sheepishly confessed that she’s a rotten joke teller. Fortunately, she’s a...