IDENTIFYING TALENT CAN TURN CAPTURED DATA INTO REALIZED OPPORTUNITIES By Michael J. Penney The McKinsey & Company study, “Big data: The next frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity,” reaches two conclusions business leaders will quickly realize. First, there are huge opportunities available for improving marketing in organizations with the use of data analytics; and second, [...]

THE APPROPRIATE PROCUREMENT METHODOLOGY – PIT BULLS OR A PRECISION DOGSLED TEAM? By Mike Novak It is inevitable that a CEO is required from time to time to pull the trigger to commit funds and begin a Capital Improvement Project (CIP). No doubt a painful responsibility as “CIP” translates to big dollars and an additional [...]

HOW MILITARY LEADERSHIP CAN SHAPE AND BENEFIT YOUR BOARDROOM By Gen. Donald “Don” Cook, USAF, Retired For the past six years, I have been fortunate enough to serve as a director on private, public and non-profit boards. When I began this ‘second career’ I had some misgivings that I could make meaningful contributions to the [...]

CONVERSATIONS ON CREATING COLLABORATIVE AND INNOVATIVE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EDUCATORS AND BUSINESS LEADERS By Paula Yoder What “assumptions” do educational institutions make about corporate business leaders?  What “assumptions” do corporate business leaders make about educators? Why should we be interested in the assumptions that one makes about the other? And what do assumptions have to do [...]