Forget the kind of monumental social change we saw with Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. The nation's inevitable march toward a different healthcare system will be gradual, not necessarily centralized in Washington, D.C., and enabled by information technology, according to Marty Preizler, president and...
Political commentator David Brooks visited Madison last week to lend his views on why America is becoming such a “niched” society, and how information technology is contributing to this segmentation. Brooks, a columnist for the New York Times and a keynote speaker at the Brandworks...
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...
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...
Wisconsin consumers and schools stand to gain from the settlement of a class-action lawsuit with Microsoft Corp., but the June 30 deadline is fast approaching for them to claim benefits of up to $223.9 million, according to attorneys involved in the court-approved settlement. ...
Citing the need to achieve profitability, Hutchinson Technology, which owns one of the Chippewa Valley's largest manufacturing plants, is cutting back its Eau Claire workforce by 165 workers. Hutchinson manufactures suspension assembly products for disk drives for the computer industry, and sales have slumped...
Many businesses are struggling with the new rules for e-discovery, but the time to act is before a lawsuit, says Michael Best & Friedrich attorney Tim Hansen. In this first of a four-part series, Hansen outlines some of the basic changes in federal rules, and...
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...
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...
Madison software executive Jan Eddy, who has battled personal health and business problems in recent years, will receive the 2007 “Seize the Day” award from the Wisconsin Technology Council. Eddy will be presented the award and will speak June 13 during the annual Wisconsin Entrepreneur's...