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Strategies

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  • Mark Gordon
  • November 8, 2013
Look again

Change doesn't come easy at a 98-year-old business. A key tactic at one statewide department store chain, says an executive, is to recognize 'value is not just about price.'

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • November 1, 2013
Corporate Report: Nov. 1

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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    By
  • Denise Federer
  • November 1, 2013
The challenge of agility

Among all the obstacles business leaders face, agility can be the toughest. But for the long-term health of a company, it might also be most important.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Traci McMillan Beach
  • November 1, 2013
BriefSkate

While skateboarding between his graduate astrophysics classes, Alexei Novitzky decided he was sick of juggling his backpack and skateboard around campus. So he started to experiment.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • November 1, 2013
Defender Pad

The idea behind DefenderPad, a laptop radiation shield and heat protector, isn't necessarily new.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
Stability Steps

Eryk Hardwick, a Naples-based remodeling contractor, was working for an elderly client who complained about being unable to use his walker to get onto the beach.

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    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
Sandy Sail

John Jenkins was at the dog beach on Fort Myers Beach one day when he saw a man set up a blanket on a pole for shade. That's when he dreamed up Sandy Sail, a sunshade that doesn't blow away like umbrellas do when the wind picks up.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • November 1, 2013
CorTemp Ingestible Body Temperature Sensor and the CorTemp Data Recorder

The firm's main products are the CorTemp Ingestible Body Temperature Sensor and the CorTemp Data Recorder. The sensor is a pill that transmits a body temperature while it travels through the digestive track.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Traci McMillan Beach
  • November 1, 2013
KeriCure

Keriann Greenhalgh was researching healing chronic wounds for her Ph.D. in organic chemistry when she discovered something much more practical for the everyday user: an elastic polymer technology that resembled a second skin.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Traci McMillan Beach
  • November 1, 2013
Teburu

When St. Pete's Gondolier Pizza approached Leon McIntosh and Greg Ross-Munro's software engineering company to create an online ordering system, the pair quickly recognized an opportunity.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
AquaRamp

A group of engineering and business students at Florida Gulf Coast University undertook a project in fall 2012 to help Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida design a pool ramp for disabled people at their nature camp. The result: AquaRamp.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • November 1, 2013
IntelligentM wristband

The IntelligentM wristband, which monitors doctors' hand hygiene, is based on staggering medical statistics.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
A class app

Got 10 minutes to spare? MassiveU's learning applications for mobile devices are for busy adults and young, tech-savvy students.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
Pegged together

Frank Schooley created a shelter you can assemble with just a hammer and pegs. It could help solve the global housing crisis as population swells and provide shelters in disaster or war zones.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Traci McMillan Beach
  • November 1, 2013
Gambling gamers

Former Raymond James IT wiz Landon Bass says he knows nothing about video games. That didn't stop him from joining a company to build an online fantasy league for gamers.

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