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Aspiring Edisons

Aspiring Edisons

For more than 50 years, the Minnesota Inventors Congress has lured lone-wolf tinkerers and garage gadgeteers to Redwood Falls. For some, the event has provided a springboard for starting a business. But with attendance shrinking, can it reinvent itself and stay relevant?   
Can Eric Kaler Retool the Engine?

Can Eric Kaler Retool the Engine?

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?
The CIO View

The CIO View

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
Call Centers 2.0

Call Centers 2.0

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