LET THE SPARKS FLY ¬† Innovation needs a culture that fosters fireworks Charles D. Morgan, CEO, First Orion ONE OF THE paradoxes of modern business is that success tends to stifle the innovation that made a company successful in the first place. If you think about it, that’s not all that hard to understand: Innovation […]
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ANOTHER PIECE TO THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT PUZZLE The Jr.2Sr. program is a solid step into the future Lonnie Emard,¬†ACDS Apprenticeship Director ON FEBRUARY 26, ACDS will begin an unusual cohort of apprentices. These apprentices aren’t new to the working world, and in fact they aren’t new to the companies they’re apprenticing with. Instead, they’re technical
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A Brief History of Big Data Just because cavemen didn’t have computers doesn’t mean the data wasn’t there Bernard Marr THE HISTORY OF “Big Data” as a term may be short, but many of the foundations it is built on were laid long ago. Many decades before computers as we know them today were commonplace,
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“BE PRO, BE PROUD” ¬† WHERE DID JANUARY and February go? The jonquils are popping up, meaning Spring is right around the corner here in Arkansas. And of the many, many things that we associate with Spring in our state, the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce’s High School Draft Days program—with the tagline “Be Pro,
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas РThe Arkansas Advanced Energy Foundation, the Arkansas Apprenticeship Alliance, the Arkansas Office of Skills Development, and Greentech Renewables are proud to announce the first annual emPOWER Arkansas Expo, held on March 13th, 2024, 10am-3pm at the Saline County Career and Technical Campus in Benton, Arkansas.  At this Arkansas advanced energy industry
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