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Outside Consultant: As I Start Working for My Family Business How Can I Help the Company Find New Opportunities to Grow? Where Do I Look?
Outside ConsultantThis "Outside Consultant" column by David Deeds, a professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship, the Schulze Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship and research director of the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship, ran in the Star Tribune on May 9, 2022. Searching for, finding and successfully exploiting opportunities for growth is critical to sustain a business. Markets evolve as new…
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Outside Consultant: What Are Some Best Practices for Intellectual Property Law Firms to Use Artificial Intelligence?
Outside ConsultantThis "Outside Consultant" column by Manjeet Rege, PhD, director of the Center for Applied AI, ran in the Star Tribune on May 2, 2022. Artificial intelligence has led to numerous breakthroughs that have disrupted the usual way we do many things and have improved our lives in several ways that we could only have imagined in the… -
Outside Consultant: What Are the Best Practices for Fostering Creativity in a Hybrid Work Environment?
Outside ConsultantThis "Outside Consultant" column by Glenn Karwoski, adjunct faculty member at the Opus College of Business, ran in the Star Tribune on April 25, 2022. All the rules about working have changed and most of us are in some form of hybrid work environment. What does that mean for creativity? Many leaders believe that people physically being… -
Outside Consultant: How Do I Create a Healthy Business Ecosystem?
Outside ConsultantThis "Outside Consultant" column by Dan McLaughlin, senior executive fellow at the Opus College of Business, ran in the Star Tribune on April 18, 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced most industries to reimagine their business models. For Minnesota’s health care systems, the necessity of implementing new models of care has accelerated change; these changes are now… -
Outside Consultant: What Does it Take to Successfully Run Two Organizations Simultaneously?
Outside ConsultantThis "Outside Consultant" column by Joel Johnson, University of St. Thomas women's head hockey coach, ran in the Star Tribune on April 11, 2022. Numerous high-profile executives have run organizations at the same time – think Elon Musk (Tesla/SpaceX), Jack Dorsey (Twitter/Square) and Jeff Bezos (Amazon/Blue Origin). Most of us will never be as well-resourced… -
Outside Consultant: Why Is Self-awareness and Caring for Others Important in the Workplace?
Outside ConsultantThis "Outside Consultant" column by Chad Brinsfield, PhD, an associate professor and chair of the Management Department at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business, ran in the Star Tribune on April 4, 2022. When I was in college, we had classes on leading others, but we didn’t have classes on leading ourselves. This… -
Outside Consultant: Has Dealing With the Constant Changes Due to COVID-19 Impacted How Businesses Communicate With Employees?
Outside ConsultantThis "Outside Consultant" column by Mike Porter, EdD, a faculty member in the Marketing Department at Opus College of Business, ran in the Star Tribune on March 28, 2022. Employee communication always comes with challenges, but COVID-19 magnified those issues in numerous ways. This created an opportunity to see extreme versions of common employer/employee communication… -
Outside Consultant: What Steps Should Business Leaders Take to Counter Ransomware and Other Cyberattacks?
Outside ConsultantThis "Outside Consultant" column by Manjeet Rege, professor and chair of the University of St. Thomas' Graduate Programs in Software and director of the Center for Applied AI, ran in the Star Tribune on March 21, 2022. Technology is the brain behind the success of most companies, organizations and countries. Often, people in the technology… -
Outside Consultant: How Can Businesses Make an Impact With Climate Change?
Outside ConsultantThis "Outside Consultant" column by John Abraham, professor of thermal sciences, ran in the Star Tribune on March 14, 2022. Climate change is happening, humans are the cause, and we have not done much to stop it. That’s the bad news. But there is good news too. It turns out we can do something about… -
Outside Consultant: How Can Organizations Create Equity in Their Structures?
Business & LawThis "Outside Consultant" column by Ernest Owens, an assistant professor of management in the Opus College of Business, ran in the Star Tribune on March 7, 2022. When the handbook/policy defines DEI, it is de facto predicated on a binary cist (male/female) majority system. When you have substructures throughout the organization that govern the outcomes, but each…