Cynthia Kincaid (November 2011)
The cost of skilled labor is always at the forefront of concern for corporate executives, and the 2010 survey respondents confirmed this fact. Labor costs were ranked as the second most important factor in Area Development’s 2010 Corporate Survey, with a 91 percent importance rating, although this was a 5.7
percent drop from 2009.
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Mali R. Schantz-Feld (November 2011)
No matter what the type of business, workers are the heart of any company — from customer service to assembly line production. In fact, availability of skilled labor was ranked seventh among the site selection factors in Area Development’s 2010 Corporate Survey.
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Dave Claborn , Director of Development and Community Relations, Ohio State University, Marion (November 2011)
If the nation’s unemployment crisis is to be solved, education as well as on-the-job experience must now be combined with the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing business environment.
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Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute (10/17/2011)
Up to 600,000 skilled positions are now left unfilled in the manufacturing industry, reveals the surprising new survey "Boiling Point? The skills gap in U.S. manufacturing."
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Woodruff Imberman, Imberman and DeForest (Fall 2011)
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is continuing its pro-union agenda with all the enthusiasm of a cat chasing a canary.
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Michael Alt, Director, Eastman Business Park (Fall 2011)
The consortium, known as the Innovation and Materials Science Institute, includes organizations across a range of disciplines to help middle-stage technology companies fast-track new products to market.
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Bill Knotts, Senior Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (Fall 2011)
When it comes to real estate strategy and implementation, the CIO’s role has become indelible and has fostered a new level of partnership with commercial real estate service providers.
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Patrick O. Gottschalk, Chair, Economic Development Team, Williams Mullen (Fall 2011)
Utilizing the resources of nearby universities will help a company to engage in R&D, acquire best practices for business, and enhance work force development and recruitment.
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James T. Berger (July 2011)
Organized labor — in industries that are a vital part of the U.S. supply chain — is worried that the three FTAs currently on the table won’t deliver on their promises to create jobs and increase U.S. competitiveness.
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Joseph F. Monaco, Assistant Communications Director, University of Kansas (July 2011)
The Bioscience & Technology Business Center (BTBC). It’s one of the Midwest’s most promising new business incubators, and it has corporate leaders nationwide adding Lawrence, Kan., to their short list of potential business sites.
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Jim Romeo (July 2011)
While unionized workers typically earn more than their non-union counterparts, some may argue that good labor-management relationships are more important to a company’s bottom line.
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Area Development Online Research Desk and Lauren Picariello, Vice President, Director of Occupier Research, Jones Lang Lasalle (7/7/2011)
Recently Jones Lang LaSalle released the results of its inaugural Global Corporate Real Estate Survey.The survey revealed four major trends expected to impact CRE for the next 12 to 24 months—if not longer. One largely under-reported trend: the rise of the "workforce mobility program" around the globe.
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Area Development Online Research Desk and CNBC (7/5/2011)
America's deepening economic crisis is changing the way states market themselves to business, reveals data in CNBC’s fifth annual study of America’s Top States for Business.
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The Council on Competitiveness, Compete.org (6/14/2011)
Ignite 2.0 provides recommendations on improving U.S. manufacturing competitiveness via talent-driven innovation, education and advanced skills development, as well as research, science, technology, innovation and full life-cycle commercialization.
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Robert Hess, Partner Strategic Consulting, Newmark Knight Frank (Spring 2011)
With completion of it's $3.7b, 7 million square-foot Calvert, AL complex, ThyssennKrupp met and exceeded environmental compliance standards while achieving it's goal to come on-line by the end of 2010 while overcoming numerous obstacles.
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Dana Olson, President and CEO, Ecodev (Spring 2011)
Companies seeking to lower their operating costs and grow their businesses may find the grass is greener outside of urban areas
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David Paeper, AIA, CID, Principal, HGA Architects and Engineers and Rebecca Greco, AIA, Principal, HGA Architects and Engineers (Spring 2011)
Recent changes in the economy, improvements in technology, and generational shifts in the workplace have made the planning of corporate workplaces anything but business-as-usual. A combination of new forces that are fundamentally reshaping the workplace.
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Phillip M. Perry (Spring 2011)
An impressive benefits package is one way to woo top talent, but employers must carefully weigh benefit costs with the company’s bottom line.
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King R. White, Founder and President, Site Selection Group (Spring 2011)
The United States is uniquely positioned to gain back the jobs in this now more knowledge-based sector that have been lost over the last decade.
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John Hampton, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, Regus Americas (Spring 2011)
The virtual work force is rapidly expanding. Don’t let it lead to growing management problems.
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