The Inevitable Grid

By Patrick Cisler While working on a recent project with companies in the Advanced Manufacturing industry I couldn’t help but learn about a fast emerging market, the “Smart Grid”. I was surprised at how many of these maturing companies I was working with that had many...

A New Approach to Workplace Motivation

By Jami Gibson When it comes to workplace performance, so many business models are built on extrinsically motivated reward systems. It seems like the greater the reward, rather money or recognition, the more motivated employees are to complete the task at hand....

Plagiarism and the Flow of Ideas

By Dean Whittaker Our whole society is built upon the ideas of those who came before us. We are standing on their shoulders. To whom does an idea belong, and how do we gracefully, and sometimes with attribution, borrow the idea and apply it in a new way? We all are...

The Call Center Returns Home

By Patrick Cisler I’m sure you’ve been there. Stuck on the customer service line for longer than you anticipated, trying to resolve an issue you have with a product or service provider. You are either frustrated by the lack of a human on the other line, often being...

Webinar Recording: Shale Gas Revolution

On October 24, Trevor Smith, with the Gas Technology Institute, presented an informative webinar about the shale gas industry and how this “overnight success” thirty years in the making will transform our economy. We received positive feedback about the event! “It was...