Alysha Schertz

Greg Rucinski
President and Chief Executive Officer
Tricast Inc.
Wauwatosa
www.tricast.com
Employees: 40
Revenue: $5.9 million

Strategy and business development have become even more crucial in the post-Great Recession economic landscape. According to Deborah Seeger, co-founder and vice president of operations at Brookfield-based Patina Solutions, the new normal has forced many companies to reconsider their business development goals and strategic initiatives on a problem solving level.

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa recently made news when a team of geneticists sequenced the partial DNA of a young boy suffering from a rare stomach disease, in the hopes that the sequencing would lead to a diagnosis.

Niceware International Innovation: New cellular therapy labeling product www.healthcare.nicewareintl.com Employees: 15 The International Council for Commonality...

Today, job satisfaction is at an all-time low, which creates a disengaged workforce with lower levels of productivity and service.

Criticare Systems, Inc. Address: N7 W22025 Johnson Dr., Waukesha Innovation: Device that detects peripheral arterial disease. www.csiusa.com Employees: approximately 300 ...

Rick Thrun, creative director at Milwaukee-based marketing firm Propeller, started fly fishing with his father when he was 12 years old. He lost...

According to author Saul Berman, companies in nearly every industry are susceptible to disruptive forces "breeding a culture of free." In his new book, "Not for Free: Revenue Strategies for a New World," Berman discusses how opportunities can emerge when business products and services are more popular than ever, but consumers have an expectation of "free."

The three brothers, all over the age of 80, walk into the new Glorioso's Italian Market, where they embrace and greet each other with kisses on each cheek, a tradition they say will never die.

Several cities across the country are tapping into their technological elite and opening Hacklabs, Hackerspaces or Makerspaces in their communities. These locations are loosely defined as member-based facilities where individuals interested in computers, technology, science and all things digital can meet to collaborate, work on ideas, inventions, new applications and new media strategies.

Businesses are more reliant on computers and other high tech tools than ever before. The storage of their files, information and data depends on computer equipment functioning properly.

Last September, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Waste and Materials Management issued a rule that banned certain types of electronics from being disposed of in landfills or incinerated. At the same time, counties and municipalities must decide whether or not to continue their recycling programs since Gov. Scott Walker has proposed an elimination of the recycling program mandate and state funding for recycling.