Manufacturing and Business Related Articles

Articles related to business and manufacturing.

PROFITABILITY – 13 Virtues of Innovation Engineering

Added: July 13th, 2010

The overt benefit of pursuing innovation is increased profitability. Research by Georgia Tech finds that companies who pursue innovation as a core business strategy realize a 50% higher profit margin. This occurs because innovation helps you escape the marketplace forces that seek to make all offerings commodities - that can be purchased at the lowest price. (read more...)

Kennon Products of Sheridan Works to Solve Other Businesses’ Problems

Added: July 1st, 2010

When it comes to solving business problems, Kennon Products in Sheridan has it covered. (read more...)

Insight Mining – 13 Virtues of Innovation Engineering

Added: June 30th, 2010

Ideas at their most basic are sparked by making connections. Insight Mining feeds the brain with customers based stimulus to spark fresh ideas. (read more...)

Energy and Cost Savings through Green IT

Added: June 29th, 2010

Information and communications technology (ICT) has become a significant source of energy consumption. ICT equipment now makes up about 5.3 percent of global electricity use and more than 9 percent of total U.S. electricity demand. (read more...)

That Dirty Word — “Creative.”

Added: May 26th, 2010

“I needed my appendix removed so while being wheeled into surgery, I told the doctor I only budgeted $200 for the operation but if I liked his work, I had other organs he could remove down the line at a higher fee. I asked if he wouldn’t mind if I had a few people look over his work and make some suggestions on how he performed the operation.” (read more...)

Wyoming and Kansas Lead MEP in Sales, Growth

Added: May 10th, 2010

On February 25, Wyoming Growth Services coaches, Rick Rothwell and Barry Bruns, learned how to run a Eureka! Jump Start program. By April 1, they had sold 20 of them, in a state with a population of only 500,000. That’s right, twenty in a month. (read more...)

Why Innovate and what stops you

Added: May 6th, 2010

I did some work with Scottish Enterprise yesterday and they showed me the results of a recent survey on what drives innovation in Scotland and the EU. It’s from a massive survey of SME companies. Four charts in particular were particularly revealing. (read more...)

Remarks by the President at the Export-Import Bank’s Annual Conference

Added: April 30th, 2010

On March 11, 2010 EXIM City State Partners Larry Stewart and George Rex attended the Export-Import Bank’s Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. Read some excerpts from President Obama’s full speech. (read more...)

Bridging the Manufacturing Gap

Added: April 20th, 2010

One of New Hampshire's critical economic engines is facing a widening gap between the best practices it needs to compete globally and the practices NH companies actually employ. (read more...)

Not the Time to Unhook the Engine

Added: January 26th, 2010

In the first half of the 20th century the chewing gum magnate, Mr. Wrigley, was riding on a train. The woman in the seat next to him asked why he continued to spend so much money on advertising when he had the chewing gum market cornered, had made huge sums of money, and continued to make even more money. (read more...)

Protecting Wyoming Workers in the Winter

Added January 14th, 2010

December 21 marked the winter solstice, the shortest, darkest day of the year for the northern hemisphere. Make sure that all employees are safe, visible and warm when working outside in the cold weather. (read more...)

Precision Industry – A diverse base of manufactures is drawn by Wyoming's many advantages

December 17th, 2009

Special Operations has been designing and amking emergency-operations equipment for 22 years in Wyoming. With clients around the world, the Cody-based company could set up shop anywhere, but chooses to remain in Wyoming for multiple reasons.

Read the full article by Wyoming Business Images Magazine…