Innovative Business Results

Larry Eiler speaks with Lou Glazer this week on the Innovative Business Results podcast. Lou Glazer is the President of Michigan Future, and speaks with Larry about both the future of Michigan as well as his own company. Michigan Future, Inc. is a non-partisan, non-profit organization. Their mission is to be a source of new ideas on how Michigan can succeed as a world class community in a knowledge-driven economy. Its work is funded by Michigan foundations.

Michigan Future's goal is to be a catalyst for recreating a high prosperity Michigan. A place with a per capita income above the national average in both national expansions and contractions. Their basic conclusion: What most distinguishes successful areas from Michigan is their concentrations of talent, where talent is defined as a combination of knowledge, creativity and entrepreneurship. In a flattening world where work can increasingly be done anyplace by anybody, the places with the greatest concentrations of talent win.

For more information regarding Michigan Future, visit http://www.michiganfuture.org/.

On this week's edition of Innovative Business Results, Larry Eiler talks with Clint Arthur. Clint has a very innovative program that he's invented which has to do with making this the last year of your life. It is a group of people from around the country and other nations that participate once or twice a week in various programs according to the syllabus.

Men and Women of all walks of life are invited to join Clint Arthur and a self-selected group of like-minded individuals around the world as we consciously live out the last year of our lives together, using the topics presented below as a guide to ensure that the experience of our final 12 months of life as we know it will be rich and fulfilling... And unlike any other year we’ve ever lived.

For more information regarding "The last year of your life program", visit http://www.thelastyearofyourlife.com.

Larry interviews Rob Fowler for this week's Innovative Business Results. Rob is the President and Chief Executive of the Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM). SBAM focuses soley on helping small businesses, which is a trait that helps seperate them from other organizations.

Rob has come on the show to discuss how to succesfully develop a business in michigan, specifically about "economic gardening." Economic gardening is a concept for growing businesses from the ground up as opposed to bringing in business from outside of the organization. The term "economic gardening" is useful as a strategy aimed more at people that want to start a company, & how SBAM reacts and supports those who want to start a company.

For more information regarding the Small Business Association of Michigan visit http://www.sbam.org/.

Larry Eiler talks with Marisa Smith on this week's Innovations in Michigan Business. Marisa Smith is the President of the Whole Brain Group. The Whole Brain Group derived their name from the idea of combining their complimentary skill sets into one collective "Whole Brain."

Larry & Marisa also discuss the Whole Brain Group's past work doing work flow automation. Over the years, the Whole Brain Group has established a presence in Michigan by providing custom web-based software for academic institutions like The University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Marisa talks about specific examples including the General Counsel Office for the University of Michigan.

Larry and Marisa also talk about "AccreditStation." The Whole Brain Group introduced their AccreditStation product in 2004, and began to expand their reach beyond Michigan, and have now gained a national reputation among research institutions as the leading provider of accreditation management and automation software. AccreditStation helps educational institutions, community hospitals, healthcare systems, and VA facilities manage successful AAHRPP accreditation projects by automating and streamlining the application process.

They also discuss "Press Room", another product that The Whole Brain Group offers. Press Room is another web based system that stores articles, press releases and videos, in a searchable archive.

This week's Innovations with Eiler and Pasick have Larry Eiler & Rob Pasick both discussing their own Michigan businesses.

Robert Pasick is a Ph.D from Harvard, and has been an executive coach in the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan. For the past 30 years, as an Organizational Psychologist and Executive Coach, he has helped leaders and their teams to perform well in challenging circumstances. Rob briefly discusses his new book, "Balanced Leadership in Unbalanced Times", & goes into depth talking about his clients, qualifications, & past.

Larry Eiler is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive of Eiler Communications, a public and investor relations and marketing firm in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The firm’s business expertise is in five core competencies – Positioning, Writing, Media Relations, Corporate Communications and Periodic Events.

Larry explains social media and how it can be used to market effectively, especially in a down-economy. He also discusses how new techonology is quite effective at reaching out to people & how it's a necessary tool to use as a business.

In this week's Innovations with business, Larry Eiler interviews Joe Miskovich. Joe is the President, CEO, & Founder of Triton Stormwater Solutions. Joe spends a minute giving an introduction of Triton Stormwater Solutions, including some of the basic services that they provide.

Larry and Joe then discuss some of the innovative ideas & plans that Joe was able to implement with Triton Stormwater Solutions. They also discuss a new commercial project for Joe, in Kaiser WV. They are able to touch on many of the successes that Triton has celebrated within the last year.

Larry interviews Bill Worzell for this week's Innovations in Michigan Business. Bill Worzell is the CEO of "Genetics Squared." Genetics Squared is a life science company, founded in 2001 and located in Michigan, that is currently working on developing a new diagnostic test for Cancer. Larry and Bill discuss the positives and negatives of developing a bio-tech type company in the state of Michigan.

Genetics Squared is primarily focused on developing molecular diagnostics. Molecular diagnostics are tests that use genes, and differences in genes, to provide information. The information that they find can then be used to predict the course of a disease, and the likelihood of a disease to respond to a particular therapy.

Larry interviews Michael Rogers for this week's Innvations in Michigan Business. Michael is Vice-President of Communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM). Michael talks about SBAM, including it's history, location and the different services that they offer.

SBAM focuses soley on helping small businesses, which is a trait that helps seperate them from other organizations. Michael also elaborates on some future events that SBAM is holding in the future, and explains how these events help bring different small business owners and entrepreneurs together. Larry also has Michael talk about "Power Suites," which is a program that SBAM uses to help provide professional services to small business owners.

For more information regarding the Small Business Association of Michigan visit http://www.sbam.org/

This week Larry Eiler talks with Jesse Bernstein, President of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, on the "Lucy Ann Lance in the Morning" radio show. They speak about how businesses in Michigan have been successful in part to the facilities of higher education. There is a good concentration of a highly educated workforce that helps to keep this area vital for businesses, new and old.

Larry talks about how the funding of technologies and life sciences getting better in Michigan, and how this is helping compliment the region's businesses, and also help to bring in new company. He also talks about some of the new funding that goes into Michigan's automotive design engineering capabilities. They finish the discussion by touching on some of the other companies that are active and doing positive things in the south-eastern region of Michigan.

This podcast has Larry Eiler speaking with Mike Gould about the new and different ways for businesses to communicate with customers. Larry talks about a lot of the new media out there, including podcasts, webcasts, and blogs, and how Eiler PR of Ann Arbor, Michigan, utilizes these different types of media to reach their customers.

Larry also discusses different internet-related ways that companies can target their very specific audiences. He cites examples of different ways to optimize Google to help pull up your company for your potential audience and ways to refine this. There is also discussion of this podcast, and how this podcast has been able to focus on Michigan economy specifically, and Larry has been able to talk directly through this means about the different flourishing businesses in the state of Michigan.

They also discuss the different methods and tools that will utilize and facilitate these different technologies.