The United States is living on borrowed time when it comes to science and tech brainpower, which is something Wisconsin lawmakers should keep in mind when contemplating the University of Wisconsin budget, writes Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. On a recent visit to Maryland, Still...
The rapidly growing Kohl's Corp. will add 112 stores this year and 100 more stores per year over the next five years, which should make Jeff Marshall's job interesting. Marshall, senior vice president and CIO of Information Services for Kohl's, has to stay one step...
James Carlini has said it before, and he's saying it again: Wi-Fi, itself, is not a universal solution. Not only are cities across Wisconsin experiencing Wi-Fi meltdowns, the Windy City has joined the ranks of the Wi-Fi disaffected, as he explains in this edition of...
American companies act like committed socialists when it comes to taxpayers bearing the risk of drug development, but they behave like greedy capitalists when it's time to parcel out the profits, charges John Simpson, stem cell project director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer...
Wisconsin stands at a crossroads in the biofuels era, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still, but a new Department of Energy lab could help the state become a global center of biofuels research and technology transfer. The new Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center on...
The creation of several technology companies within corporations in this region is a testimony to the power of corporate venturing, according to Leading IT columnist Geoff Bastow. Those new ventures, which include web-centric and managed-services companies, were started to fill a need identified by the...
Ian Wilmut, the Scottish biologist who developed a technique that led to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, acknowledges there is still some convincing to do on the matter of therapeutic cloning, but he remains an evangelist for its scientific potential. Wilmut, who was in...
Victory in the media theater of the talent war requires a total commitment, says columnist Tony DiRomualdo. That commitment includes the redesign of the entire work experience to better match the workplace preferences, learning styles, and performance needs of media-savvy workers. In this edition of...
A little collegiality goes a long way toward adopting technology in the University of Wisconsin System, according to Ed Meachen, associate vice president of learning and information technology. In fact, it's essential to managing technology adoption across 26 institutions of higher learning with 163,000 students...
The infrastructure for business moving forward is the Internet, notes State Senator Ted Kanavas, who is blasting Gov. Jim Doyle for continuing to tax Internet access. However, the state Department of Revenue contends that Wisconsin is allowed to collect the tax even though federal legislation...