January 2024

Cover Story

Chips, Climate, Culture, College, Construction: The New ‘5 C’s’ of Our Economy

Arizona’s early economy was based on the strength of what it famously called the “5 C’s”: Climate, Cattle, Copper, Cotton and Citrus. Some of those continue to infuse strength to the state’s economy, some have morphed into a broader category, … [More]

Features

5 B2B Marketing Trends for 2024

This time a year ago, marketers planning their 2023 budgets were bracing for a recession. A common motto might have been, “Fasten your seatbelts, folks, we’re going to be in for a bumpy ride.” The same passengers now might be viewing blue skies … [More]

Tech for Good: Emerging Sustainable Growth Markets

As Tech for Good becomes a wider field with broader applications, the related sustainable growth markets are being unlocked and discovered. New sustainable tech areas are popping up and growing rapidly where solutions are urgently needed. Tech areas … [More]

Cybersecurity Risk Controls Remain Key to Risk Mitigation, Resilience & Insurability

With technology increasing in sophistication year after year, business owners and executives must stay more vigilant than ever when it comes to preventing data breaches and cybersecurity threats. A cyber-attack can cost a company millions of dollars … [More]

Shapiro Law Team’s Commitment to Community

In the dynamic world of business, where success is often measured in profit margins and market dominance, the story of Shapiro Law Team stands out as a beacon of corporate citizenship. This Arizona-based personal injury firm, formerly known as David … [More]

Roundtable

Women Are Changing Jobs Left and Right to Access IVF Coverage

Businesses are talking about it. People are changing jobs, and even taking on second jobs, in order to access family-building coverage. Talent is … [More]

Economy

Food as Medicine: Venture Capital’s Appetite for a Healthier Future

For decades, venture capital chased the next tech innovation or disruptive platform. Today, a new wellness sector is garnering attention: the … [More]

Legal

New Year, New … Privacy Program?

January is a time of renewal, providing an opportunity for new focus. With Data Privacy Day almost upon us, and the expansion of data privacy … [More]

Nonprofit

If You Build It, They Will Give

An effective employee engagement program is a vital component of any company’s corporate social responsibility strategy. According to re:Charity, 71% … [More]

From the Top

Darin Roberge: Innovator in Collector Car Marketing

From a young age, Darin Roberge has loved all cool things on wheels. Fueled by his passion for classic and exotic cars, Roberge began his career journey in 2014 at top collector automobile auction … [More]

By The Numbers

What Is the Future Shape of Work?

The study recently released by Adzuna, the smarter job search engine, unveiled insights into the trajectories of hybrid and remote work. The data shows that the proportion of new jobs posted for both … [More]

Startups

De Respino Packs Experience into Dispute Resolution

With a passion developed over 36 years of experience in evaluating and litigating complex disputes and the strategic decisions that are required for risk analysis, Laurence J. De Respino, Esq. … [More]

GoX Wearable Tech Advances Workers’ Safety

GoX Labs provides the world’s most advanced all-in-one enterprise safety solution to prevent future heat, fatigue, musculoskeletal, slips/trips/falls and fitness-related injuries. It was co-founded in … [More]

Healthcare

Facing the HR Challenges of Employee Suicide

Traditionally, mental health has been a taboo topic in the workplace, until COVID happened and a shift occurred. The business world realized as the pandemic unfolded that having discussions about mental health was an important part of workplace … [More]

Technology

How Businesses Can Manage Personal Devices in the Workplace

Personal technology or personal devices have become an integral part of our daily lives, including the workplace. While the use of personal devices for work can enhance productivity and flexibility, these devices also come with risks. To mitigate … [More]

Semi Insights

How Phoenix Is Rebuilding America’s Semiconductor Sovereignty

The past few years have been a roller-coaster ride for the semiconductor and electronics industry, particularly in the United States — coming out of a slowdown into a pandemic that created shortages, to a boom year that has the industry talking about … [More]

Phoenix: The New Frontier for Global Tech Trade Shows

Phoenix is increasingly becoming a magnet for semiconductor trade shows thanks to its booming semiconductor industry. The recent attraction of high-profile events like SEMICON West and the 49th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis … [More]

CRE

How COVID Changed Arizona’s Commercial Construction for the Better

From high-tech new semiconductor factories to the bumper crop of warehouses and logistics facilities popping up across the Valley’s ever-growing outskirts, Greater Phoenix’s light-industrial real estate sector is red hot. In fact, Phoenix’s … [More]

East Valley’s Most Sustainable Multifamily Apartments Opens in Mesa

The recently completed ECO MESA apartment building has transformed a “postage-stamp”-sized infill parcel of land in Downtown Mesa into a community that boasts some of the most sustainable features in the industry. The community of 102 residential … [More]

LEED-Certified Industrial Planned for Goodyear

Diversity and sustainability-focused industrial real estate firm DIV Industrial plans to develop Sarival Business Park on 47.35 acres it recently acquired in Goodyear. Groundbreaking is scheduled to commence late Q1 2024, with total project … [More]

Briefs

Tips for Announcing Bad News

Here are a few aspects organizations need to consider when there is some hot water for an organization or an individual: Who will be the speaker? — Will the individual represent him- or herself or get a spokesperson? For an organization, the … [More]

Arizona’s Clean Energy Scorecard

Honeywell Aerospace recently hosted a roundtable event — “Powering Arizona: Maximizing Historic Federal Investment for a Clean Economy” — at its Advanced Air Mobility Lab in Phoenix. With representatives from Honeywell, Microsoft, Lucid Motors, KORE … [More]