Despite some risks and challenges, small business owners in the Greater Chicago area are optimistic about new technology developments, such as all-digital payments and selectively exploring new emerging trends, like the internet of things and data analytics. This is just one of the findings in a recent survey of small business owners by Bank of America on a variety of topics. The generally positive outlook of local small business owners regarding technology aligns with their overall view of the economy and the outlook for their businesses. Chicago entrepreneurs are planning to hire more, with a majority anticipating long-term growth. As part of this effort, many local small business owners are investing in and embracing digital tools and emerging technologies, while still preparing for the risks and challenges associated with them.All-digital payments within the next five years One of the most significant innovations disrupting the small business marketplace is the digital payments … [Read more...] about Local small business owners cautiously optimistic about technology
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Use This Simple Technology Tool You Already Have to Strengthen Relationships With Your Partners
When was the last time you turned on your webcam? Stacey Hanke Published 2:00 pm CDT, Monday, August 6, 2018 Photo: Vgajic | Getty Images Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 Photo: Vgajic | Getty Images Use This Simple Technology Tool You Already Have to Strengthen Relationships With Your Partners 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Business is accelerating for companies across the globe. Opportunities are abundant, and so is the competition. More than ever, companies search for strategies to better connect with clients and prospects in hopes of building long-lasting relationships, ones that will endure economic change and competitive pressures. Executives know that consistent conversations with clients are vital to strengthening relationships and closing deals. They also know face-to-face meetings do it best. … [Read more...] about Use This Simple Technology Tool You Already Have to Strengthen Relationships With Your Partners
Technology helped America’s economy way more than we thought
At the end of July, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its blockbuster 4.1% economic growth rate estimate for the second quarter, few noticed another announcement from the statistical agency: A total revamp of its gross domestic product calculations, going back decades. Deep in the guts of what makes up the GDP, the agency had incorporated new information about cloud computing, cell phones, and other rapidly evolving technologies. And while the updated calculations only changed overall economic growth by a tiny bit each year, total business investments climbed by almost a whole percentage point on average for each year between 2002 and 2017. That's a big jump, and presents a brighter picture of economic activity after the recession than the one we had before last Friday, the agency said in a briefing with reporters. Related: The GDP report was great. Now what? Such adjustments aren't new. Every five years, the federal government's economic number crunchers announce … [Read more...] about Technology helped America’s economy way more than we thought
Sheffield’s ‘Women of Steel’ past and present prove engineering doesn’t have to be men’s work
0 Have your say To look at Kathleen Roberts and Ella Cheetham, you might not immediately think they had a lot in common. Yet despite the 77 year difference in age – there are more similarities than meet the eye.One of Sheffield’s now famous ‘Women of Steel’, Kathleen, aged 96, was just 19 when she started working at Brown Bayleys, rolling steel to be used in the huge war effort.Ella Cheetham is 19 now, and has been managing director of a Sheffield engineering firm for just under a year.The Telegraph brought these two pioneering Steel City women together to talk about the differences and similarities between now and then.And it quickly became clear that the challenges Kathleen faced in being a woman in a traditionally male dominated industry have not yet fully disappeared.When she first entered the steel works during World War Two, Kathleen recalls the men she worked with were ‘terrible’.“I have no idea why but they would … [Read more...] about Sheffield’s ‘Women of Steel’ past and present prove engineering doesn’t have to be men’s work
Engineering can be a woman’s world say Sheffield’s ‘Women of Steel’ past and present
0 Have your say To look at Kathleen Roberts and Ella Cheetham, you might not immediately think they had a lot in common. Yet despite the 77 year difference in age – there are more similarities than meet the eye.One of Sheffield’s now famous ‘Women of Steel’, Kathleen, aged 96, was just 19 when she started working at Brown Bayleys, rolling steel to be used in the huge war effort.Ella Cheetham is 19 now, and has been managing director of a Sheffield engineering firm for just under a year.The Telegraph brought these two pioneering Steel City women together to talk about the differences and similarities between now and then.And it quickly became clear that the challenges Kathleen faced in being a woman in a traditionally male dominated industry have not yet fully disappeared.When she first entered the steel works during World War Two, Kathleen recalls the men she worked with were ‘terrible’.“I have no idea why but they would … [Read more...] about Engineering can be a woman’s world say Sheffield’s ‘Women of Steel’ past and present