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Detroit’s Financial Problems Can Be Solved
Detroit is in a financial emergency. Many of us in the turnaround and banking industry have known the city’s struggles for years, without ever taking an extensive look at revenue and expenditures. Tuesday’s financial review team announcement confirmed what we… Continue Reading
Patent Value Correlates Directly to Economic Prosperity
Innovation is central to economic growth, and the United States still ranks high globally on a number of important measures of innovative capacities. A recent report from the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings studied the current state of invention in… Continue Reading
IT Cost Management and the Cloud
As goals and objectives are set for 2013 and communicated throughout companies, many employees are asking if this will be the year that the new ‘system’ or ‘latest and greatest’ tech devices arrive. Will we finally be able to ‘catch-up’… Continue Reading
What We Need to Kick Start the Economy
I have enjoyed reading both of Steven Levitt’s Freakonomics books. They highlight how there are unforeseen stimuli that produce certain results we think happen for another reason. O’Keefe works with middle market companies that sometimes experience financial difficulties; they are… Continue Reading
Naming Right(s)
What’s in a name? And when is a name more than just a name? In the world of business, a company’s moniker should represent everything that company stands for, including what makes it and its professionals stand out from the… Continue Reading
