October 2 was National Manufacturing Day

Manufacturing Day is a celebration of modern manufacturing meant to inspire the next generation of manufacturers. Although Manufacturing Day officially occurs on the first Friday in October—this year is October 2, 2015—any day can be a Manufacturing Day.

Here is a sampling of events:
*Ann Arbor, Michigan area…

Urban Land Institute Expects Expansion through 2017

The real estate market is projected to continue expanding at healthy and fairly steady levels for 2015 through 2017, according to a new three-year economic forecast from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Center for Capital Markets and Real Estate.

The latest ULI Real Estate Consensus Forecast, semi-annual outlook…

America's Largest Publicly Traded Employers

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Ben Taylor

About 70 percent of American companies have exactly one employee—an army of small, efficient businesses that usually do one simple thing well. Think plumbers, graphic designers and IT consultants.

Then there are the massive corporations. From fast food chains to department…

Create a Productivity Culture

By Eric Bloom

Six attributes to enhance your entire organization’s productivity.

What does productivity mean to you? To many, it means more time, money and resources to get other things done. For example, if you have five people working toward the completion of a specified task and can find…

Tech-Thirty 2015: Measures Tech Industry’s Impact Office Markets

New report from CBRE Group, Inc. shows office rent premiums as high as 87 percent in some of North America’s top tech submarkets, though discounts can still be found in emerging tech markets.

HOW WELL IS THE TECH INDUSTRY PERFORMING?
The high-tech software/services industry created 730,000…