Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Tim Irwin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the transactional dimension of recovering your business post-pandemic, including being creative about your organization, including how you charge, bill, hire, fire and train your team.
Tim Irwin joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how to think about action-oriented steps like honest product evaluation, competitive acquisition or downsizing, and onboarding strategic new hires.
Holly Wade joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB’s Index of Small Business Optimism, which has delivered a response that is down from a year ago, but on par with the study average, and above the entire Obama-era average.
Holly Wade joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB’s Index which shows an overall drop in optimism because of hiring and sales, but boosted by compensation and capital spending.
Holly Wade joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the financial strength and operating courage of America’s small businesses and how this sector helped prevent a depression, instead of a recession.
Michael Fillios joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the concept of “tech debt”, which is a 3-factor condition of allowing the cost of technology to move in a direction that doesn’t serve your evolving business model.
Michael Fillios joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the existential potential in being slow to manage technology investment, application and maintenance, both from a cost and a performance standpoint.
Dr. Faith Whittier joins Jim Blasingame to report on how she sees the pandemic today, which is that we still have a long way to go before we’re out of the woods and back to any semblance of normalcy.
Dr. Faith Whittier joins Jim Blasingame to report on the current state of burnout for medical doctors – including the high incidence of suicides – and how technology can become a factor in minimizing this national problem.
Dr. Faith Whittier joins Jim Blasingame to report on the current crisis of managing medical records, and how blockchain could become the silver bullet technology, plus the pressure the advent of telemedicine will have on our broadband system.