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Manufacturing Innovation Blog

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Stacey Wagner

Guest blogger Stacey Jarrett Wagner has more than 20 years of experience in workforce development, conducting research and providing strategic thinking and technical assistance on workforce development issues.

Lunar Manufacturing In The 21st Century

England, in the 1760s, was the birthplace of the western world’s Industrial Revolution, initiated by a group of men who made “manufacturing” the purview of the

Breaking Badly

In March 2013, a Manufacturing Leadership Council survey was conducted by Frost & Sullivan with 226 manufacturers.[1] The survey’s intent was to understand

Why We Have No Reason to Gripe

A recent survey by Harris Interactive © on behalf of CareerBuilder describes the hardest-to-fill American jobs, basing their findings on the inability of

The Big M

When discussing employment in The Big M, parents, teachers and mentors often take great care to ensure that the child/student/mentee understands the rigors of a

How To Fish

Approximately half of the 704 employers participating in a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education and American Public Media’s Marketplace said they have

The Make-Over

Have you ever stepped out for a night of fun and bumped into an old acquaintance? Someone you rejected way back when as not quite up to your standards, only to

What’s In Your Garage?

The idea of the garage as an incubator for start-up businesses is as American as hot dogs, baseball and apple pie (although I like apple cobbler better). From

A Whole Lotta Training Going On

I read three daily newspapers and subscribe to a news aggregator service, so I feel that I have my finger on the pulse of not only daily events, but trends over

Don’t Bet on The Dinosaurs

There’s nothing I love as much as a paradox. So there’s a lot for me to get excited about with America’s current manufacturing paradox, which is whether U.S