Capacity Utilization

By Dean Whittaker Capacity utilization is one of the key measures for determining the need for companies to add new capacity. One of the more useful websites for economic development is www.economy.com.  This site offers an abundance of economic indictors and reports...

Featured Website: Business.com

By Jeff Vedders We’d like to introduce you to Business.com, Inc. (www.business.com).  Business.com is a web-based directory of businesses organized by industry.  This is a good web site to visit when looking for companies within a particular industry.  For example, by...

Featured Websites: EDGAR & Digital Librarian

By Jeff Vedders I thought this month I’d pass on a couple of web sites of interest: º    Many of you may already be familiar with the SEC’s EDGAR database.  EDGAR (which stands for the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) “performs automated...

Featured Website: Search Engine Watch

By Jeff Vedders Internet search engines aren’t the most exciting topics, are they?  But if you’re in the information business (and who isn’t these days?), if you use the Internet for any of your research, or if you rely on the Internet as a marketing tool, you must...

Featured Website: Gartner

By Jeff Vedders Perplexed about complex IT issues?  Has “IT solution” become an oxymoron?  Wonder what drives a company’s technology decisions?  Check out Gartner, Inc.’s web site at www.gartner.com. Gartner is a technology research and development firm.  According to...