Commentary

When selling the ownership of their business, today's entrepreneurs prefer selling stock to selling assets, but there are many variables that impact the decision, according to Madison attorney Joe Boucher. In this 17th editon of Early Stage, Boucher goes over the pros and cons, from...

EDUCAUSE's latest White Paper on America's lack of broadband does not shed light on the real issues, argues James Carlini, who can safely be described as a champion for the highest possible broadband speeds. As he notes in this edition of Carlini's Comments, most state...

Depending on your perspective, the IT worker shortage is either a fact that is complicating life for technology directors, or a fiction born out of an unwillingness of companies to pay technology workers what they earned before the tech bubble burst. In any event, Wausau...

The sentiment that our healthcare system is “broken” appears to be universally shared, at least on the Democratic side of the aisle, notes columnist Ogan Gurel. In this editon of Med Tech Futures, Dr. Gurel explains why the health insurance system actually is more logical...

The joke about football is that it features the two most disliked aspects of modern life - violence and committee meetings. In this edition of Contemporary Working, Melanie Holmes, who taped the Super Bowl so she could fast-forward to the commercials, knows that just like...

The value of unified communications in healthcare settings is firmly established, especially because many medical errors are traced to communication problems, according to Dr. Daniel Sands, director of IBSG Healthcare and Cisco’s director of medical informatics. In this WTN guest column, Sands contends that recouping...

As healthcare organizations move to deploy electronic medical records, they encounter the need for clear standards to provide guidance on who can access patient information, how they secure permission to access it, and what they can do with the information, according to Dr. Barry Chaiken....

Incentive stock options can be wonderful assets, both for the company trying to provide attractive incentives to its employees and to the employees who have options that go up in value as they help the company succeed, according to columnist Sverre Roang. In this WTN...

What's an investor to do when assessing the prospects of a promising new biotechnology? In this WTN guest column, former University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and medical researcher Steve Clark provides the right question to ask, and it has more to do with assessing risk than...

Whether it's tech, biotech, or "any old job," candidates who do their homework in the job search are more likely to impress their prospective employers. Since knowledge of the business is a growing expectation of chief information officers and other technology managers, this advise is...