Commentary

IT failures on expensive and high-risk projects in state agencies have gobbled up both newsprint and tax dollars, but not every state IT dollar has been wasted, notes columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, Still toasts one state IT investment that actually...

You've heard of famous “Dream Teams” in basketball (think 1992 Olympics) and in legal circles (think O.J. Simpson), but how about a technology Dream Team of Microsoft's Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs? In this edition of DEMO Letter, Chris Shipley's dreams include a “what...

A new benchmarking technique has the potential to save a substantial amount of money in any Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program, but the first step is to have effective IT change management in place. In this edition of Boardroom Perspectives, project management professional Jerry Norton explains why...

The United States is still a dominant player in global biotech sales, R&D, publicly traded companies, and other parameters, but the rest of the world is catching up. In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, columnist Michael Rosen outlines this and other findings from the...

A bill that would trade Wisconsin's city-by-city regulation of the cable television industry for statewide video franchises has stalled in the State Senate, mostly due to political inertia, according to columnist Tom Still. In this presentation of Inside Wisconsin, he notes that if Wisconsin is...

Corporate Social Responsibility is a hot concept that many corporations around the world are seeking to demonstrate, but there are fundamental questions raised by CSR, according to columnist Tony DiRomualdo. In this edition of Next Generation Workplace, he examines three contrasting views on the societal...

A relatively well-kept secret in Greater Milwaukee is the business development strategy known as corporate venturing. As columnist Geoff Bastow notes in this edition of Leading IT, the practice may be unfamiliar and uncommon, but it holds great potential for new business development, particularly the...

The Innovation Gap is more than just a sad line of promising ideas snuffed out in an arduous journey from concept to market. In this edition of MedTech Futures, columnist Ogan Gurel laments the surmountable but rarely surmounted obstacles that still block the path of...

There was a time when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade merger was a bad idea, but things change and now it's the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and Chicago Board of Trade that are the wrong combination, observes columnist James Carlini. In...