Hear me live on CRE West Radio Show with Jim West (1/07/2012)

I'm now contributing to Forbes on line. Read my first post, Should a Business Buy Its Own Building.

Hear a live interview with Dr. Bill Conerly and Bill Frank of Brainstormin (11/2/2011)

State Risk of Recession from Europe's Financial Crisis (10/25/2011)

President Obama's jobs speech (9/8/2011) stimulated lots of questions from the press. For links to the answers, click on Press Coverage.

11 Business Challenges for 2011 is a set of blog posts about businesses ignoring politics, going global, keeping talent, access to credit, the economy and sales reps, increased cyclicality, vendor performance, real estate, business analytics, prices and balancing tactics and strategy.

The Future of Banking is a topic I'm speaking about to bank boards of directors and management teams, as well as to banking associations.

Another interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.  You can watch the video or read the transcript.

Business Strategy for the Economic Recovery has occupied most of my time lately. The article in the link above is a summary, but I've also written about how the recovery relates to the global economy, management of sales effort, and luxury markets. 

The Businomics Blog is where I'm keeping my most up-to-date comments on the economy.

The Small Business Financial Crisis is a short e-book explaining how the world of credit for small and medium businesses has been changing, how the current financial crisis is accelerating the changes, and what businesses need to do now to get credit in the future.
 
New speech topic: The Next Decade: What Businesses Should Do TODAY to Prepare for Tomorrow.  What are the big changes coming in the next decade?  Demographics, globalization, finance and technology are covered with a focus on what businesses should do today to prepare for tomorrow.  More information about speeches is available here.

Conerly on the Economy for January. View the January charts. The Pacific Northwest version (includes U.S.) and U.S. version PDF files are available for downloading.

Businomics was published in May 2007.  More information is available here.

"Business Uses for Web 2.0: How Companies Can Help Their Customers and Their Employees While Cutting Costs" is transcribed from the Businomics Audio Magazine.