Maybe it just goes with this time of the year; businesses are reflecting on their past year and refining their plans for the next 12 months. Companies are making assessments on all sorts of things: their product offerings, their current employee teams, if they have people in the right seats, what’s good, what’s bad, or what needs improvement. And as part of those assessments, there’s almost always a discussion around…
sphere3
Kansas City-based Sphere3 Consulting announced its acquisition by Critical Alert Systems, a nursing software company in Jacksonville, Fla. The agreement between the companies is expected to be finalized near the end of February. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Through the acquisition, Sphere3’s current service-delivery staff will be augmented by Critical Alert’s engineering and operations teams. Sphere3’s CEO, Kourtney Govro, will join the Critical Alert executive team as vice…
I-corps profitable business workshop classroom
Missouri University of Science and Technology has created an entrepreneurial education program for those interested in generating ideas, devices, processes or other intellectual activities. Missouri S&T is first to host an Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site program in the state. Funded by the National Science Foundation, I-Corps was created to provide business and technical information to rising entrepreneurs and technological innovators. For more than four weeks, participants can gather valuable details from…