Virtual engagement with customers and employees increased dramatically during the pandemic. And that change has stuck, to the surprise of some company executives.

It's not only employees who prefer a remote or hybrid setup. Companie...

Any corporate board member knows how to read a balance sheet or analyze an income statement. But how many can explain the nuances of cloud computing or the difference between a database and a data lake? Despite tech's growing centrality to ever...

After years of targeting and extorting high-value corporate targets, ransomware attackers have turned to more vulnerable prey - school districts. With less funding, less-than-mature cybersecurity defenses and limited (or even nonexistent) contr...

If voting with your feet is a form of protest, K-12 schools need to start paying attention to the steady drumbeat of footsteps. Across the country, schools are experiencing some of the biggest enrollment drops ever in what amounts to a crisis of...

With a nationwide shortage of tens of thousands of teachers, school districts are scrambling to find new ways to recruit and retain talent. But there's one underutilized solution: federal stimulus money from the national COVID crisis.

High school students today face the prospect of graduating into a world that immediately weighs them down with student debt and out-of-control product prices. Fortunately, there's a growing trend in American secondary education that can help them...

We've been addicted to cheap stuff for so long, you have to be a certain age to remember when we weren't.

Emerging from the pandemic, though, tectonic shifts in the world economy are signaling the end of that era. Globalized suppl...

On a recent visit to a school district, I was startled to find a procurement office with folding tables stacked with hundreds of paper purchasing orders that needed to be manually reviewed and approved.

What major industry still opera...

Just as it seemed that global supply chain disruptions were easing, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has now destabilised conditions for private equity-owned companies around the globe. I'm sorry to say this, but the environment is likely going t...

As a startup owner, you are forgiven if you feel powerless in addressing supply chain issues, lacking the financial clout and deep supplier networks enjoyed by the Walmarts and Procter & Gambles of the world.

In reality, though, b...

"Let's bring manufacturing home!"

This sounds like a straightforward solution to the disruptions currently plaguing the supply chain-which have only been amplified by the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

Unfortunately, the...

Public schools around the country could see some of the most exciting educational innovations in decades - if districts have the courage to quickly deploy a federal windfall to schools' best advantage.

It's a big if.

In the best, most stable of times, the job of forecasting and responding to demand is difficult at best. These are not the most stable of times.

In a 30-year career, I've never seen a more uncertain, unstable economic situation than...

Schools are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime windfall of federal money to recover from the pandemic, but weak management and labor shortages mean billions may go unclaimed and unspent.

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed a series of s...