LANSING - Michael Rogers, communications officer for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks with trainer and leadership coach Kevin Suboski, to get his tips and advice on how to build a leadership team in your small business. To listen, click on https://www.sbam.org/Resources/tabid/97/ArtMID/2980/ArticleID/2787/Advice-on-how-to-build-your-small-business-leadership-team.aspx
ROYAL OAK - Oakland University’s Incubator is hosting a free Innovation Weekend April 7-9 that will teach entrepreneurs - from those with a napkin concept to a operational business - how to make it successful. You will learn how to evaluate the viability of new innovations, develop a business model, for them and communicate effectively
ROYAL OAK - Keith Brophy, executive director of the Michigan Small Business Development Center, interviews client Steven Molewyk, Chief Operating Officer of Towel Tracker, which uses RFID chips to track towels used by fitness clubs, hotels, and more. In telling his story, Molewyk said he channeled his mechanical skills into a successful career as a
ROYAL OAK - Melissa Sheldon from the Workforce Intelligence Network of Southeast Michigan discusses the Connected and Automated Vehicle report and the demand for workers to fill these jobs in this episode of M2 TechCast. A new report from the WIN says connected and automated vehicle makers need to work together more collaboratively to identify
ROYAL OAK - Mike Rogers, communications director of the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks about the 50 Companies To Watch winners that will receive their awards at a special ceremony on May 4. SBAM also announced the Innovation Award winner, OPS Solutions, a Wixom company that provides an Augmented Reality device for workplace training.
LANSING – Michigan’s technology industry employment grew by an estimated 5.1 percent in 2016 as employers added more than 10,700 new jobs, according to Cyberstates 2017, the definitive annual analysis of the nation’s tech industry released Monday by CompTIA, a technology association. With an estimated 221,994 workers, Michigan ranks tenth among the 50 states for
WASHINGTON DC - More than 770,000 U.S. drone registrations have been filed in about 15 months, the Federal Aviation Administration's Michael Huerta said at a conference last Monday. That's an increase of 100,000 in the past three months alone. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, FAA administrator Huerta said the agency
ANN ARBOR - I have been involved in the software talent space for over a decade. When I joined Ann Arbor SPARK in 2006 to develop programs to attract, develop and retain talent, software talent was the number one issue. When I developed state-wide talent attraction programs as SVP of Talent Enhancement for MEDC from
ROYAL OAK - On M2 TechCast Monday April 3, Tonya Matthews, PhD, CEO of the Michigan Science Center will talk about the first anniversary of her successful STEMinista program that introduced middle school girls to STEM. Greg Doyle from Tech248 will interview Mark Hillman from MadDog Technologies. Tom Kelly from Automation Alley will talk about
DETROIT - Tonya Matthews, PhD, the CEO of the Michigan Science Center, talks about the first anniversary of the STEMinista program, created by her to introduce middle school girls to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - in hopes they will pursue careers in STEM and help Michigan fill tens of thousands of unfilled jobs in
