TROY - Jennifer Granholm hasn't done enough to save your job. Dick DeVos has sent Michigan manufacturing jobs to China. Turn on the television or radio, pick up a newspaper or log onto your favorite Web site and you are likely to get bombarded with either of these lines. Personally, I don?t think either is
LANSING - Every year, the federal government authorizes spending of almost $1 trillion for goods and services that range from purchasing pencils to Apache helicopters, including research and development projects. Yet with all this opportunity, small businesses tend to shy away from implementing a government affairs strategy that would help them get government appropriations, grants,
WHITMORE LAKE - Many organizations are expending enormous resources working to improve how they do projects. They see a significant opportunity to improve the competitiveness of their organization by improving what most consider dismal performance in projects. Project Management Organizations are being designed and implemented to lead these organizational efforts to improve project performance. While
DETROIT - A more dynamic workforce means the list of people requiring network access changes every day. Employees, contractors and other short-term network users must be provisioned by the IT staff, often using a manual, time-consuming process that does not meet just-in-time business requirements or provide an adequate record for auditing and regulatory compliance. Manually
FARMINGTON HILLS - Content filtering solutions are used primarily to limit and or log access to specific Web sites on the internet. These solutions are usually located just inside the corporate firewall and can either be placed in-line or are queried. Both of these strategies have their pros and cons. The in-line variety content filter
GRAND RAPIDS - The recent rash of highly publicized laptop thefts has led to a corresponding increase in articles on what to do about sensitive customer data on employee laptops. It seems to me that these articles are too narrowly focused and need to expand their scope to all removable media. Laptops aren?t the only
TRAVERSE CITY ? Neil Jackson provides news briefs and observations in part two of his fly-on-the wall report from the Center For Automotive Research's Management Briefing Seminars that took place last week in Traverse City. STRAIGHT ANSWER. Asked whether the auto industry world is still round or getting flat, Toyota's U.S. manufacturing chief Gary Convis
FARMINGTON HILLS - During the dot-com era, just five short years ago, the answer was apparent: private equity and the grandeur of exorbitant wealth in the global financial markets fueled the innovative appetites of technologists and inventors to build technologies and systems that arguably had more sizzle than business value. The business learned from this
TRAVERSE CITY ? Neil Jackson presents a fly on the wall insider report this week from the Center For Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars. Tuesday's report looks at Ford, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, globalization, and Toyota. Is Ford in his future? A reporter asked Phil Martens, the suddenly former president and COO of Plastech Engineered Products,
LOS ANGELES - Bhopal. Exxon Valdez. DDT. Fentanyl. Sarin. Hydrochloric acid. LNG. These are words tied to chemicals that conjure up death and destruction resulting in a crisis. And a crisis means publicity. What often turns a chemical emergency into a crisis or disaster is surprise, compounded by confusion and errors that occur during the