When Ecolab began looking at telecommuting as a way to boost the productivity and satisfaction of employees on its information technology (IT) service desk, one of the first resources it
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All Seasons Wild Bird Store celebrates 20 years—and five locations—under its current ownership.
Cultivate the art of gamesmanship with a day at a hunting preserve.
Kevin Baartman, vice president of information services, Lund Food Holdings, Inc. Mary Connor: So how long has the company been in this office? Kevin Baartman: I started in 2001. Lunds and Byerly’s
The conventional wisdom in call centers is, ‘I want to get you off the phone as quickly as possible,’” notes Bob Denman, president of Bloomington-based communications IT firm Avtex. But
Tweed Jacket The Twin Cities’ ever-changing weather makes the transitional fall temperatures a wardrobe predicament. One solution: pairing the tweed jacket’s classic silhouette with a crisp button-down shirt and impeccably
The new U of M president faces a punishing budget, a legacy of top-down management, intense demands to grow research, and a sports and marketing machine on a Big 10 scale he’s never seen before. What makes him the right catalyst to take the university out of rough idle?
iBuyOfficeSupply.com is taking the low-cost route to fast growth.
Benefit managers talk shop—what works and what doesn’t—about delivering employee benefits information.
“A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work.”
Business leaders from across Minnesota are showing signs of confidence in their own operations, despite their pessimism about economic conditions. Nearly 43 percent of 625 executives responding to a survey
Twin Cities entrepreneur and inveterate cyclist Dan Cleary loves to ride wherever he travels. But he was finding that shlepping his bike with him on airplane trips was like pedaling
The second annual Minnesota Idea Open tackles issues of water quality, inviting the public to submit ideas for improving the state’s water supply and awarding $15,000 to help implement the
Summer is the season to mix business and fun, American style. Here are some ways to be a good sport.
U.S. venture capital investments in water treatment technologies—still a small segment of VC overall—doubled in 2010 over levels in 2009 and 2008, according to a MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and
DesignWise Medical uses a social enterprise model to develop medical devices for small children.
Effective employee orientation, or “onboarding,” reduces early-stage turnover and boosts day-one productivity.
Ever so quietly, Shock Doctor has been growing annually at double-digit rates for the last decade. But according to Tony Armand, who became the Plymouth-based sports gear manufacturer’s CEO in