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Noticing What No One Else Notices
I attended a conference this week put on by Automation Alley, a technology business association located in Oakland County, Michigan.  The conference attracted many types of businesses, including commercial lenders and brokers, and was one of the reasons I attended as a representative of Stewart Title.
One of the keynote speakers of the event was Tim Bryan of GalaxE Solutions, an IT services company.  Mr. Bryan spoke about "outsourcing to Detroit", a phrase I found amusing, especially when considered with Chrysler's "imported from Detroit" campaign.  As a Michigan resident, Detroit doesn't seem foreign to me!  But what Mr. Bryan expounded upon was the hidden opportunities in the metro-Detroit region- how the combination of a willing, talented workforce along with the region's resources make for a great corporate location.  Indeed, the number of technical workers (IT, software, social media, etc.) working in the metro-Detroit area now exceeds the number in Silicon Valley!
Listening to Mr. Bryan, I was reminded of a book my children read in elementary school called The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau.  The father of one of the main characters tells him, "Notice what no one else notices, and then you'll know what no one else knows."  How true!  And how ... more

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