Defense Industry Websites

By Jeff Vedders Since the U.S. military is a key component of many communities, and with the current attention to homeland security and defense, targeting companies that supply to the military and defense industries has increasingly become a major economic strategy...

Featured Website: Google.com

By Jeff Kelley We love Google. We all use it here at Whittaker Associates and have found that it is the most useful search engine for finding whatever it is we are looking for. It looks like a straightforward search engine, but there is a lot more to Google than the...

Featured Website: MckinseyQuarterly.com

By Jeff Vedders An interesting web site we came across recently was The McKinsey Quarterly at www.mckinseyquartlerly.com.  The McKinsey Quarterly is an on-line journal with articles on business strategy, published by McKinsey & Company, a management consulting...

Attracting the Creative Class: Part II

By Katie Terpstra Last month, we discussed author Richard Florida’s theory that creativity is the driving force behind economic growth and that “cities should stop worrying about attracting companies and start worrying about attracting members of this...

Featured Website: Knowledge@Wharton

By Jeff Vedders Last month we introduced you to The McKinsey Quarterly which was an online journal containing articles on business strategy. Another interesting site with in-depth business information is Knowledge@Wharton published by The Wharton School at The...