The following stories and articles provide resources and
technical and business information for the small and mid-market
companies participating in the manufacturing value
chain.
Manufacturing Business educational videos
from the 2009 Business, Braves and Bottom Line™ seminar
series
Topics include: Braving the New World of Labor Law - Bert
Brannen, Esq.; Being a Crisis Leader during the Economic Downturn -
Bruce Blythe; How Carbon Emissions Cap and Trade Will Affect Your
Business - Eric Taub.
One Georgia Authority: Entrepreneur/Small Business Outreach
Services
The goal of the OneGeorgia Authority is to offer financial
partnerships with rural communities to create strong economies in
all business sectors, allowing new and existing industries, both
large and small, to flourish. Contact Jack Burnett at TwinEngines
to find out more about the program.
Georgia
Retraining Tax Credit Guide
information for employers that are interested in earning state
income tax credit for eligible types of employee retraining
programs.
How to
Build a Business Case For SharePoint
Building a business case for SharePoint poses specific challenges
because much of its ROI is intangible: SharePoint deployments can
lead to process improvements, but it's not always easy to quantify
the dollar value of those process
improvements.
Georgia Tech Helps Alabama Manufacturer Diversify Product
Line, Fight Foreign Competition
The Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute helps companies,
entrepreneurs, economic developers and communities improve their
competitiveness through the application of science, technology and
innovation.
Alabama Tax
Incentives for Industry
The Alabama Department of Revenue administers several tax
incentives available for existing industries, expanding industries,
and new industries locating in Alabama.
Southeastern Trade Adjustment Assistance Center
(SETAAC)
SETAAC helps manufacturers develop and implement turn-around
strategies to compete better with imports, serving the eight-state
region of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. You can use the SETAAC
program to pay for half of your cost of business and engineering
consulting services (up to $75,000 to you for $150,000 of total
consulting costs).
Thought Leader -- Reducing the Supply Chain
Footprint
HP's Christian Verstraete brings a systems engineer's eye for the
big picture to managing the supply chain's "ecosystem."