Guest Columns

NLRB Ruling That College Athletes Are Employees Could Have Major Implications For Sports, Higher Education

DETROIT - A National Labor Relations Board ruling that scholarship football players at Northwestern University are ?employees? who may unionize could transform college sports and create an entirely new landscape of labor and funding challenges for school administrators. NLRB Regional Director Peter Sung Ohr said the 85 Northwestern football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships met

By |2014-04-04T00:00:00-04:00April 4th, 2014|Archive, Guest Columns|

2nd Annual Great Lakes Business Intelligence & Big Data Summit A Big Success

TROY - On March 13, more than 250 business and technology professionals from across the Midwest came together for the 2nd Annual Great Lakes Business Intelligence and Big Data Summit. The event, hosted by WIT, gave attendees the opportunity to learn about proven best practices, discover the latest innovative solutions, and network with top technology

By |2014-03-24T00:00:00-04:00March 24th, 2014|Archive, Guest Columns|

Do You Know What Your Customers Really Pay for Your Technology?

GRAND RAPIDS - Being merely competitive doesn?t win the race. Grow your business with a compelling customer-focused value proposition! What is your technology worth? Being merely competitive doesn?t cut it. You need a compelling value proposition! A recent technology column listed several new consumer electronics devices coming to market. I?m a gear-guy and a sucker

By |2014-03-20T00:00:00-04:00March 20th, 2014|Archive, Guest Columns|

NextEnergy: Venture Support At NextEnergy

DETROIT - If you know NextEnergy, you know our core mission is to drive investment and support job creation and retention in advanced energy technologies, businesses and industries. To do this, we often work on what we call Venture Development with start-up companies, established small businesses, university researchers, and federally-funded research, development, and demonstration projects.

By |2014-03-10T00:00:00-04:00March 10th, 2014|Archive, Guest Columns|

SBAM Supports Personal Property Tax Reform Package

LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan said it supports legislation that would guarantee 100 percent reimbursement to local governments for local services as part of efforts to reform Michigan?s uncompetitive tax on business equipment. ?For the first time in more than a century, the vast majority of Michigan's small businesses did not have

By |2014-02-25T00:00:00-05:00February 25th, 2014|Archive, Guest Columns|

Car Talks With Mary Barra, General Motors New CEO

DETROIT - Mary Barra, General Motors new CEO, is not the type of boss who ever thought she'd be featured in Fortune, let alone sit atop the magazine's inaugural Most Powerful Women in global business ranking. The first woman in her family to go to college, she worked her way through General Motors Institute (now

By |2014-02-06T00:00:00-05:00February 6th, 2014|Archive, Guest Columns|