Recent Blog Posts
Manufacturing is America’s Strength
Once in a while, we get to work on something totally meaningful and fun all in one. For me, that’s this great new campaign, or movement if you will, started last year called Manufacturing
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Are You Ready?
Summer is here! Most of us are eager to enjoy longer days, more sunlight, and warmer weather, but summer also ushers in increased risk of weather related storms and damage. So my question is:
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Working to Keep Manufacturers Making it in America
I work at CONNSTEP, the NIST MEP center in the great state of Connecticut. I have the pleasure of working for an organization that helps Connecticut manufacturers improve and expand through services focused on
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Is It Realistic for an American Manufacturer to Raise Performance by Increasing U.S.-Based Jobs?
This article was originally posted on the Baldrige Blog. Guest blog post by Christine Schaefer The 2013 Baldrige case study features a fictitious, small, manufacturing business, Collin Technologies. The sample Baldrige Award application of Collin Technologies is being
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What’s In Your Garage?
The idea of the garage as an incubator for start-up businesses is as American as hot dogs, baseball and apple pie (although I like apple cobbler better). From Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniack,
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How Iron Man Can Help Make it in America
You may not believe this, but economic development has something to learn from Iron Man. When Tony Stark and his “super suit” enter a combat zone, his technology scans the environment: inhabitants, structural deficiencies,
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All Things Being Equal
All things being equal, we Americans prefer buying American-made products. That’s the case for 78% percent of us anyway…or so says the Consumer Reports National Research Center in their new survey. More than 80
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The Demand for Consulting Services
The most recent issue of the Economist contained an article regarding the increasing demand for consultants and consulting services among firms. The article suggests that while competition is becoming more intense among consulting firms,
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