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  1. Advanced Talent Management - a Next Generation Manufacturing Strategy

    by Mary Isbister, President, GenMet Corporation, Mequon

    Mary IsbisterMotivated, highly engaged, passionate talent holds your best opportunity for innovation and is the key to sustainable business success.  This type of talent is hard to come by and hard to keep if your organization does not have a culture that recognizes how to keep the current and next generation of employees challenged and engaged.

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    Posted on: Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 6:38am
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  2. WANTED: Manufacturing Champion

    by Buckley Brinkman

    Senator Kohl and BuckleyWhen U.S. Senators Herb Kohl and Olympia Snowe leave the U.S. Senate in January, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program will lose two of its strongest advocates.

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    Posted on: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 5:51pm
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  3. Streamline access to new markets with exporting

    By Roxanne Baumann, Director of Global Engagement, WMEP

    Roxanne Baumann

    Exporting allows manufacturers to tap into new sales in foreign markets - breathing new life into existing products and spreading research and development costs over an extended product lifecycle. By selling to domestic markets alone, manufacturers are competing for a dwindling market pie that gets fiercely more competitive every day. 

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    Posted on: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 9:25am
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  4. Sullivan's right on track, but in the meantime .. .

    By Buckley Brinkman, WMEP CEO

    Buckley BrinkmanFormer Bucyrus International Inc.

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    Posted on: Monday, September 10, 2012 - 2:21pm
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  5. Fact vs Fiction:

    What Employers Need to Know About The Affordable Care Act

    By Michael Gotzler, General Counsel of The QTI Group and Jane Clark, Chief Operating Officer of QTI Human Resources

    On June 28, 2012, the United Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (“Affordable Care Act” or “ACA”).  

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    Posted on: Monday, July 16, 2012 - 5:17pm
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  6. Manufacturers – the backbone and future of Wisconsin’s economy

    Buckley BrinkmanBy Buckley Brinkman

    Executive Director/CEO Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership (WMEP)

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    Posted on: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 10:08am
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  7. Manufacturers must step in and drive the change that they need

    Manufacturers must step in and drive the change that they need

    Steve Dyer

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    Posted on: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 8:41am
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  8. Manufacturing - The Key to Economic Growth

    Lee SwindallLee Swindall, VP for Business and Industry, WEDC

    As I leave WMEP to take up my new role as VP for Business and Industry with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, I wanted to impart a few final words to our clients, our many partners and our supporters in Wisconsin.

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    Posted on: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 1:40pm
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  9. Are you a Leader or a Laggard?

    Buckley BrinkmanAre you a Leader or a Laggard?

    Buckley Brinkman, WMEP Executive Director

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    Posted on: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 10:11am
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  10. Sustainability – It’s Not Just for “Greening” Anymore

    Buckley Brinkmanby Buckley Brinkman

    WMEP Executive Director

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    Posted on: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 12:00am
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