Intellectual Property – How to Protect and Mine Your IP
Intellectual property is a growing and increasingly important realm in the business world — but exactly what is intellectual property?
A short answer might be...
IDIE Awards 2015 – The Results Are In
The Alabama Chapter of the International Interior Design Association recently held its biennial IDIE awards, recognizing designers in 10 categories. The event was held...
Woodlawn Community: Birmingham’s Woodlawn Regenerates Itself
Tony Bayles, owner and chef of Bayles Catering in Birmingham’s Woodlawn community, gets to work early each morning — real early — usually around...
CCS: Company-Customized Continuing Education
A well-trained work force is essential in today’s competitive business environment. But it’s always a challenge to find the best training at the right...
Etowah and St. Clair counties Take The Spotlight
Etowah and St. Clair counties in north central Alabama have the enviable benefits of very easy interstate, rail and air access for business and industry,...
AU’s College of Business: The Roar of Entrepreneurs
Come one, come all — trendsetters, groundbreakers and changers of the status quo. Converging on the Plains this month are moderators, mentors, alumni and...
Asterisk Phone System: Riding Telecom’s First Waves
Youthful naïveté played to Mark Spencer’s advantage in 1999, when the 21-year-old, working out of his Auburn University dorm room, launched Asterisk — an...
Analytics In Business: Lessons in Real World Big Data
There is a scene in the movie “Moneyball” — about the Oakland Athletics’ innovative plan in the early 2000s to use advanced analytics to...
BP’s “Well from Hell” and a Very Big Class Action
April 20 is the fifth anniversary of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which began spewing over 200 million gallons of BP crude...
Shipbuilding;: LCS Sails Through Hearings as Balkan Challenges Eyed
Reading between the lines a bit from reports of congressional budget hearings involving U.S. Navy shipbuilding plans, it appears shallow-draft warships of the kind...