Commentary

Globalization briskly marches on - one step ahead of our ability to measure and understand its effects. Economists, corporate leaders, and government officials trumpet the benefits of globalization but few have called attention to the risks for countries, companies, and individuals, opines Tony DiRomualdo. ...

Global companies are discovering Wisconsin's many business benefits, as Microsoft's recent acquisition of Jellyfish.com clearly demonstrates, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. Microsoft, however, is only the latest corporate giant to "Discover Wisconsin" and its business merits, which speaks volumes about Wisconsin's ability...

WiMAX will be a big alternative to big cities, especially after the “free” Wi-Fi business model has fizzled, observes James Carlini, and that's one of several impressions from the recent WiMAX WORLD Conference in Chicago. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he said the conference...

Fostering innovation is much more complicated than meets the eye, according to MedTech Futures columnist Ogan Gurel. In this second part of a three-part series on innovation, Dr. Gurel says innovation requires full engagement with marketing - not in the narrow sense of advertising, but...

The state's work on eHealth quality has unveiled barriers to goals like electronic patient data exchange between hospitals. In this guest column for WTN, Kevin Hayden, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, offers a chronology of what has transpired so far...

In contrast to California, a state that Wisconsin is competing with on several levels, Republicans in our state Legislature have blocked a major healthcare reform proposal called “Healthy Wisconsin: Your Choice, Your Plan.” In this response to a recent column by Republican Senator Ted Kanavas,...

If workers in your company still are "flying solo," you may want to stimulate the innovative process by having them work in teams, according to columnist Tom Koulopoulos. In this edition of The Innovation Zone, Koulopoulos is reveling in the fact that he's become a...

The Japanese government has a strong commitment to its biotech industry, which has aided the second largest pharma market in the world. Yet Japanese Big Pharma doesn't seem to be paying a lot of attention to it, if the recent BIO-Japan conference is any indication,...

Many IT shops foolishly refer to “the customer” not only as the people who buy the company's products, but to people in other business units that need something from IT. In this edition of Breakthrough IT, columnist Patrick Gray says this distinction is counter-productive because...