Ingram's || July 2011

Features

Kicking it Around
Soccer coaches, players and organizers from throughout the region—and some well outside this area—assess the state of youth soccer in Kansas City.

Degrees of Change
Area universities are meeting the needs of regional businesses and responding to a changing economy, fine-tuning their graduate programs and processes.
by Dennis Boone

Corporate Report 100
For a 26th year, Ingram’s showcases the 100 fastest-growing companies in the Kansas City area.

Amending Lending
Some borrowing requirements may have changed, but banks are still lending, a look inside the FDIC’s figures show. The challenge for business: How to tap into those funds?
by Dennis Boone

Out from Under the TARP
Nearly two years after its creation, most of the nation’s biggest banks have repaid their TARP money, and many of the Kansas City region’s banks didn’t need it. Now comes the Small Business Lending Program.
by Dennis Boone

COLUmns

BUSINESS & COMMERCE

Sales Moves
What’s wrong with kids these days? Maybe the problem is in the question itself; it might not be about them.
by Jeffrey Gitomer

Sales and Marketing
In a good economy, when the sales just keep pouring in, companies may go lax on assessing the underlying metrics. That’s a bad move, as tougher times show us.
by Casey Coffman

Wealth Management
Top-line revenue growth, as we see each year with the Corporate Report 100, is a great problem to have. But it can’t be one that takes your eye off bottom-line results.
by John Fager

Of Counsel
Another Dodd-Frank surprise emerges with new whistleblower enticements, and financial institutions would do well to start factoring them into their operations.
by Bob Monroe and Mike Campbell

General Editorial

PERSPECTIVES

Editor's Note
The American Royal’s decision to move its rodeo to Sprint Center is troublesome.
by Joe Sweeney

Between the Lines
Smoking bans are but one example of how government intervention defies reason and creates unintended consequences.
by Jack Cashill