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Credit: FedTech This year’s FedTech Startup Studio Program, which is a multi-month course that brings together entrepreneurs and government researchers to develop startup companies around technologies created in federal labs, recently came to a finish with the 2021 cohort. Throughout the program, the teams worked with business mentors and federal researchers on developing business plans,

Fast Food Company Charged for Public Disclosure Violations The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Stephen J. Easterbrook, former CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, with making false and misleading statements to investors about the circumstances leading to his termination in November 2019. McDonald’s also was charged for shortcomings in its public disclosures related to Easterbrook’s separation

Credit: Horoscope/Shutterstock What are the leading-edge, strategic, and competitiveness challenges that you are facing in your organization/industry (or seeing in the organizations with whom you work)? What changes have there been to the long-standing drivers of success and sustainability? For more than 30 years, organizational leaders have depended on the Baldrige Excellence Framework® to help them reach

Supply chain benchmarking is important because managers need to: understand how their supply chains compare to competitors’, evaluate “as is” conditions before they can determine what to fix,  encourage innovation, compare performance across business units, and leverage data for restructuring and change. APQC defines benchmarking as the process of comparing and measuring your organization against