Main Culprit? Lack of Education in Science, Manufacturing, Construction, and Engineering Infrastructure and Education Project Idea: Learn, Build, Innovate USA The USA is 9th in the 2020 Bloombe...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2020/01/25/usa-falling-behind-in-innovation/
Public Training Offering — Getting Innovation Started Attention Michiana, NW Indiana, Chicago Establish Fundamentals and Avoid Pitfalls Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi) and The Society of Innovato...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2019/08/30/public-innovation-training-nw-indiana/
Manufacturing in America — Using the Past to Create an Innovative Future It’s heartening to learn about a small USA manufacturer who’s doing something creative, new, and interesting. Janus ...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2016/09/26/retro-motorcyles-signal-manufacturing-revival/
A short post to make an observation. Say what you will about the GOP debate last night — and there is much to say — there was no attention paid to manufacturing. Search the transcript, you’...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2015/08/07/gop-debate-no-mention-of-manufacturing/
Keep Punching, Stay True to Yourself and Trends, Make Things The demise of Radio Shack., it’s depressing. Much like Kodak you read the history of events and can point to several ideas not done ...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2015/04/09/three-sad-innovation-lessons-from-radio-shack/
We Can’t Get Serious About Manufacturing Soon Enough. I support RAMI. I read with interest a post on the congressional blog The Hill. In a rare example of cross party cooperation it would ap...
The concept of Black Friday has me thinking about what we reward as consumers. My idea of shopping has nothing to do with sharp elbows, crowds, or even bargains. The kind of shopping I like is w...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2013/11/29/a-new-idea-for-black-friday/
President Obama made mention in his state of the union address that he wishes to expand the National Netowrk for Manufacturing Innovation concept. I wholly applaud the idea, AND, there might be a...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2013/02/13/the-innovation-state-of-the-union/
Benton Harbor, Michigan, have you heard of it? It’s a big enough town that it shows up on the weather maps of Chicago TV stations. It’s directly across Lake Michigan from Chicago. It’s in t...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2013/01/29/innovation-in-michiana-how-whirlpool-creates-magic/
It’s a shame that the reshoring trend (of manufacturing back to the USA) will take years to be realized. I’m a fan of course, I’ve written about it here before. Like many trends, it’s eme...
https://greggfraley.com/blog/2012/07/12/reshoring-why-it-makes-sense/