By focusing on innovation -even with technologies developed outside its walls- General Mills keeps pace with a grocery industry hungry for more new products.
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Former Lawson Software CEO Jay Coughlan wanted to get back behind the wheel of a company. He found Xata, a fleet management software company needing the right direction.
If you don't know your strategy, any option will get you there!
Small-business leaders discuss the strategies they're using to weather this economy.
Bill Cooper on the financial crisis and his bank.
What Minnesota must do to regain its competitive edge in biosciences.
After 22 consecutive years of losing money, the company now known as Clearfield is profitably supplying connectivity products to smaller telecoms.
The floods may have an effect, but North Dakota could be the state least likely to be wracked by the recession, thanks to an economy built primarily upon agriculture and energy- along with a helping of high technology.
An animated block of wood teaches us lessons in how not to invest.
Create internal cash when outside credit is tight.
Now a buttoned-up marketing, trademark, and entertainment attorney at Fredrikson & Byron, there was a day when Stephen Bergerson was an entertainer himself, rocking the Arkota Ballroom in Sioux Falls,
Best Buy is using social networking and a philosophy of openness to change the way it interacts with employees and customers. Along the way, it's learning new ways to sell its products.
The long-time Minnesota construction company's first sports project was the Target Center in 1987. Now working on the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium and the Minnesota Twins' Target Field, it has become one of the nation's largest sports-facilities builders.
For marketing, PR, brand, and design firms too small to catch the big jobs they want, Dan Mallin and Scott Litman have an answer: Join forces and split projects with other small firms.
To: Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglas Shulman
Myths about TARP and bank lending
Service-oriented architecture can make your company's IT system function seamlessly for users.
Why did a group of U.S. farm cooperatives decide to become a global grain merchant- and a Fortune 500 company? For CHS, it was a matter of staying ahead in the increasingly complex agribusiness market.