Commentary

Within the commercial real estate markets, those commercial buildings that lack “IQ,” or broadband connectivity, will lose tenants and overall value over the next five years, observes columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he explains how to measure a building's IQ....

From restricted stock plans to stock appreciation rights to employee stock ownership plans, technology businesses have several options when it comes to retaining and attracting executive talent. In this WTN guest column, Madison attorney Sverre Roang talks about the pluses and minuses of alternatives that...

Wisconsin is a natural laboratory for cellulosic ethanol, which is considered the next generation of biofuels beyond crop versions like corn-based ethanol, according to columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, he says the state's agricultural, forest, and paper assets could someday help...

The debate over whether there actually is an IT talent crunch is not a matter of retiring Baby Boomers or whether there is a willingness to pay the going rate, as in the H-1B visa debate. The degree to which a company is impacted by...

Information technology project failures often are linked to a lack of business and IT alignment, but what about dysfunctional project management teams? In this guest column for WTN, project management expert Lisa DiTullio links performance with a set of expected behaviors....

Okay investors, you have a choice of placing your venture capital bet on one of two companies, each developing a promising therapy for prostrate cancer. Which do you choose? WTN columnist Steven Clark offers an example of how a good scientific understanding of emerging...

Michael Rosen recounts travel in Canada from a biotech and pharma point of view, plus the fruits of his research. Canada is a major U.S. trading partner, and Rosen argues that with the economic expansion of the European Union, the United States needs to look...

John Byrnes, executive managing director of Mason Wells, explains the Milwaukee Institute, which is building computing resources and tools for shared use by researchers. He hopes the institute will provide a base for large-scale research projects of national importance, and goes over some of the...

Failing to understand data privacy could cause CIOs and other managers headaches like sanctions and redesigns, writes lawyer Mark Foley. When data privacy laws collide with enterprise human resources information systems, even simple reports or data access can involve cross-border data transfers under multiple jurisdictions....

CIOs have become frustrated as internal improvement projects with strong ROIs are being canceled in the face of tight IT budgets, says Mark McDonald, group VP of Gartner Executive Programs. These efficiency projects have one year paybacks and strong year-over-year benefits, and are well within...