Minnesota Technology Magazine - Summer 2006
Summer 2006
Features
Green Power: Fuel prices are on the rise, and there’s no end in sight. Here’s a look at four innovative projects that are saving energy—and money.
Food for Thought: With the global food network a ripe target for terrorists, smart, well-trained people—including many in Minnesota—are looking after your well-being. Will their efforts be enough to protect us?
Chain Reactions: Looking for ways to boost your firm’s competitiveness? Look to your supply chain.
Getting Better: What’s really new—and what really matters—in continuous improvement?
Healthy and Wealthy: Health Savings Accounts promise lower health insurance costs and greater consumer control. Are they right for you?
Departments
Publisher's
Note
Let's Shift Into High Gear
MTI President and CEO
Wayne Pletcher on helping the manufacturing
engine shift into high gear.
MTI News
Good to Grow
With the economy heating up, many Minnesota manufacturing and technology
firms are ready to expand their operations.MTI can help.

Virtual Monopoly
A Minneapolis firm’s business simulation games pit executives against
each other in an online corporate contest.
4 Questions
Kent Kedl wants to help you do business in China.
Outsource to America
Duluth-based Saturn Systems offers a homegrown
alternative to offshore IT outsourcing.
Statbox
Arrowhead area appears to
be on the cusp of a new
wave of development.
Touched by an Angel
A new investor group is on the lookout for up-and-coming companies
in the Twin Cities area.
I Feel Pretty
Minneapolis-based Worrell turns its own design philosophy on
itself designs—and generates more business in the process.





