Feature Articles

ASSOCIATIONS

"The beef with interstate meat sales"
Small processors fear new legislation would impose unnecessary federal inspections on regional meat companies

"Beer wholesalers drink a birthday toast"
The National Association of Beer Wholesalers marks its 70th anniversary

"Change of Plans: Anthony Scaglione"
Association for Financial Professionals Practioner Profile

"Competitive Nature: Adrienne Urban"
Association for Financial Professionals Practioner Profile

"Encore Performance: Katria N. Kowal"
Association for Financial Professionals Practioner Profile

"Farm to Finance"
Association for Financial Professionals Practioner Profile

"Know Your Board Members: Ferdinand Jahnel"

"Know Your Board Members: Jeff Johnson"

"Organic Trade Association: Tending the harvest"
The Association is working to educate the public on organic food benefits, and its members on new first-time Canadian regulations

"Outdoor Convention Wields Big Stick"
The Outdoor Industry Association may cut its support for a major trade show in Salt Lake City unless Utah improves its wilderness protection efforts

"Practioner Profile: Johanne Gauthier"

"The Global Treasurer"
An interview with the well-traveled Winston Cummins

"Up in a Puff of Smoke"
City officials in Rochester, Minn., this year lost what would have been the first national meeting of the American Veterans Association in their city...














"Ways and Means"
Rep. Lynn Jenkins brings her treasurer background to Congress


BOOK WRITING

KPMG Retiring Partners: Profiles in Professionalism 2011 & 2012






BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION

"Achieving True Star Power"
Nothing wows your customers like providing a killer home theater. But be warned: there are ways to really bomb on the silver screen

"Better with age"
The Active Adult Market Is the Fastest Growing Market in the Housing Industry, and Your Best Market for Selling Home Tech"

"Connected Home by Design"
Showcasing home technology affordable to the common man

"The Home Tech Leaders"
The Annual Innovative Housing Technology Awards Honor the Best Providers of Technology for Home Building and of Home Technology Products and Services (with Tom LeBlanc)

"Just-Right Home Tech by Design"

"Scaling back the dream home"
With house prices on the decline, and construction costs on the rise, builders are putting the brakes to behemoth single family homes


CORPORATE STRATEGY

"Mergers Made In Heaven"
CEOs that live through multiple corporate acquisitions may find they get easier as you go. But as merger consultant Robert Sher warns, no deal is a small deal

"The Ultimate Insiders"
Facilitators are the ultimate insiders in your joint application development groups. We got them together to reveal what really goes on when users and IT work together to build new systems. Here's how managers sabotage their own projects, and how these pros somehow keep them on track


EDUCATION

"Choosing a cloud"
Entire counties and states are moving away from locally hosted e-mail and document-sharing software. The big question they have to answer: Google Apps of Microsoft 365?

"Google Vs. Microsoft: Choosing Cloud Apps for Schools"
Is Google Apps for Education or Microsoft Office 365 for Education the right choice for your school? Learn from these two examples.

"Training Was Key to Oregon's Statewide Google Apps Implementation"

"What Is Cloud Robotics?"
Robotics researchers are leveraging cloud collaboration tools and seemingly unlimited storage potential, among other benefits ripe for adoption.


ENERGY

"Bring biodiesel to the Berkshires"
State and local forces team up to help bring a new $50 million biodiesel fuel plant to Western Massachusetts

"Power Play"
Google is installing the largest solar energy system in the country, and with it, repositioning itself as a utility as well as consumer. In the process, they are learning some valuable lessons for other executives who have their eyes set on solar

FINANCE & FINANCIAL SERVICES

"Act NOW: 2012 is the Year of the Corporate Bond"

"Aim HIGH"
CFO Alison Cornell, CTP, sets high goals for herself and others

"Charitable Contributions"
Treasury and finance executives find success at nonprofits

"China and Asian Outlook 2013"

"Dancing with venture capitalists"
VC companies have become more fickle on whom they will partner with. National Venture Capital Association President Mark Heeson reveals the best ways to still catch their eye

"The Eurozone Debt Crisis: "In Case of Emergency"
Treasury and financial professionals prepare for the breakup of the euro

"Hands-On Exprience"
Companies increasingly are hiring CFOs with operational experience

"In Case of Emergency"
Treasury and financial professionals prepare for the breakup of the euro

"Office Politics"
Treasurers increasingly are holding higher political office

HEALTHCARE

"Affiliation mania"
A proposed partnership in Massachusetts is part of a larger national trend

"BYOD in healthcare brings new mobile device security strategies"


MANAGEMENT

"A Mutual Understanding"
Computer literacy isn't enough. IS manages and pros need emotional literacy to build teams and work well with users. The Myers-Briggs method of deciphering personality types can help IS and users achieve ...

"Gold Medal Effort"
Mississippi native Robert Neal worked for NASA and played a key IS role at IBM. Now, with the lighting of the Olympic flame in Atlanta only weeks away, neal is directing the largets IS effort for the '96 games. Computerworld's David Weldon spoke with him recently.

"Loving your Consultant"
Customer and consultant relationships can be as rocks and challenging as any marriage. But there are easy steps to making the partnership work

"Mind Your Manners!"
Corporate executives are frequently insensitive and even offensive in how they engage others. The problem is not having confidence in how to properly behave, says behavioral consultant and author Judith Bowman

MARKETING

"Building Brand Online"
A growing number of homebuildes are learning how to use their website to promote the advantages of living in their homes


RETIREMENT PLANNING

"Addressing the Needs of Female Clients"

"Americans Keep Pushing Off Retirement"

"Ask the Advisor: Asset Allocation & Portfolio Rebalancing"

"Ask the Advisor: Engaging and Involving Customers"

"Ask the Advisor: Guiding Self-Employed and Entrepreneur Clients"

"Ask the Advisor: Long-term Care Advice"

"Avoiding Pitfalls When Retiring in Paradise"

"Best Retirement Dates for Federal Employees in 2014"

"Congressional Committee Addresses 'Retirement Crisis"

"Congressional Hearing Tackles Long-Term Care Funding Woes"

"Health Care a Critical Part of Retirement Strategy"

"Health Savings Accounts Gain In Popularity"

"Helping Clients Time Their Social Security Benefits"

"How Can We Keep Social Security Solvent?"

"Making Dollars and Sense Out of Roth IRAs and 401(k)s"

"National Retirement Planning Week Offers Critical Tools for Advisors"

"Obama's MyRA Plan Still Irks Some Retirement Planners"

"Retirement Readiness Crisis Still Looms Despite Some Improvement"

"The Importance of Explaining Medigap"

"Successfully Educating Your Clients on Long-Term Care"

"The Best Time to Begin Collecting Social Security: Ask the Advisor"

"Unemployed Boomers Struggling with Recovery, Retirement Options"

"U.S. Faces Severe Racial Divide with Regards to Retirement"

"What to Think of The Affordable Care Act"

"Will Delaying Social Security Benefits Be a Tough Sell to Clients in 2014?"


TECHNOLOGY

"Buzzing Beyond iOS, Android"



(Note: The above list is a sampling of feature and trend analysis articles that I have written. Contact me for more information on these aticles.)