Here’s a holiday office gift no business should want. Sophisticated cyberthieves have taken to delivering innocent-looking packages, usually without any department or person named, in anticipation they will sit unnoticed and unclaimed on a mailroom shelf for a while. Inside the package: Devices that can remotely steal or compromise a company’s digital data.
As chief information officer at Johnson Financial Group, I seek to ensure our technology never gets in the way of the business moving forward. I call this “future-proofing” a business — though that may not mean quite what you’d expect.
A strange thing happened at the global climate summit in Glasgow: Nuclear power was not given the customary back of the hand.
Suddenly, it seems, more people are intrigued by investing in businesses owned or led by people of color.
When you think about all the uproar in Packerland over the last few weeks, don’t you wonder where the grown-ups were? I do.
As they pitched to investors during the recent Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, many entrepreneurs made a point of saying their companies are “QNBV-certified,” which is an acronym for one of Wisconsin’s oldest and most successful tax credit programs.
During the 1970s and ’80s, inflation was truly out of control. Prices would increase by 10–14% or more so quickly that consumers would buy things immediately simply to avoid paying substantially more the next month, the next week, or even the next day.
On Nov. 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety & Hazard Administration (OSHA) released its Emergency Temporary Standard (“rule”) which requires most private-sector employers with 100 or more employees (“covered employers”) to adopt COVID-19 vaccination and testing policies.
From Leonardo DiCaprio to Queen Elizabeth II, and from indigenous people to world leaders, the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow drew a 25,000-member chorus that sounded dire alarms and vowed to control the harsh effects of climate change.
The clouds parted and I actually got on a plane in October for the first time since February 2020. Off to New York City, where the best business lessons came from unexpected sources.
From the standpoint of Buckley Brinkman, who directs the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity, there are two kinds of manufacturers — those who have adjusted to a changing world and those who must do so to survive.
Are your file cabinets overflowing with old statements and financial records? Here are some general guidelines to help you determine what should be retained and what can be destroyed.
Two hundred miles south of the Wisconsin border on the University of Illinois campus, a $200 million initiative announced Oct. 19 offers ample evidence that our neighbors are gearing up to compete for an infusion of federal science and technology money.
Choosing the right person to administer your estate can be difficult. Many people feel compelled to choose a family member as trustee or personal representative, not realizing there are other — perhaps better — options.
An employer-sponsored fertility benefit was once considered a luxury. Now more than ever, it’s an essential part of a company’s HR toolkit.
We can all probably agree that we didn’t expect the pandemic to be affecting our professional and personal lives as we near the beginning of 2022.
The city of Kenosha has seen its share of challenges of late, not the least of which was unrest in August 2020 following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. In other ways, however, it’s on a roll that stands to benefit the southeastern corner of Wisconsin and the state at large.
A few weeks ago, I did a post on LinkedIn sharing an article about The Great Resignation. The post was prompted by the fact that I had just returned from a workout where I was told that yet another of my favorite coaches had resigned their position.
Wisconsin’s workers are always on our minds, especially now as our state and our economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Every worker is so vital, the value of their work significant.
There is an interesting quote that defines technical support as “a person who does precision guesswork, based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.” As far as technical support goes, there is some truth to that.
