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Millennials are igniting a transformation in B2B sales & marketing and becoming key purchase decision makers. In this session, we'll share results of our study of 2,000 millennial B2B buyers and learn what drives their B2B path to purchase behaviors.
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CEOs' plans for hiring and investment, and expectations for sales over the next six months jumped sharply, according to the Business Roundtable first quarter 2017 CEO Economic Outlook Survey.
The Business Roundtable CEO Economic Outlook Index - a composite of CEO projections for sales and plans for capital spending and hiring over the next six months - made its largest increase since the fourth quarter of 2009.
The Index jumped 19.1 points, from 74.2 in the fourth quarter of last year to 93.3 in the current quarter. For the first time in seven quarters, the Index has risen above its historical average of 79.8. Its highest level over the past 10 years was 113, reached in Q1 2011.
CEO plans for hiring increased by 18 points from the previous quarter, while expectations for sales and capital expenditures increased by 21 and 18.4 points, respectively, over the previous quarter.
CEOs project 2.2 percent GDP growth in 2017, a 0.2 percent increase over their projection for 2017 made last December.
"I am enthusiastic about the opportunity to enact a meaningful pro-growth agenda that will benefit all Americans. As these results confirm, business confidence and optimism have increased dramatically," said Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Chairman of Business Roundtable.
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Colorado Business Roundtable's Inner Circle gives our members access to the Colorado's top business women and men. #COBRTInnerCircle members share their leadership lessons and invite you to learn more about them and their organizations. We've be adding new members every week, so stay tuned in the newsletter and on social media as the COBRT Inner Circle continues to expand!
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Robin Wise serves as President & CEO of Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain. Since taking the helm in 1992, the organization has grown from reaching just 8,000 students during 1990/1991, to reaching nearly 135,000 this past school year.
Robin recently received the 2017 William Funk Award for Building Stronger Communities from the Colorado Nonprofit Association.
She was selected as one of the 2015 Top 25 Most Powerful Women by the Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce, and has received a number of local and national awards for her leadership and business savvy, including the Denver Business Journal's Outstanding Women in Business Award.
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Colorado is poised as a leader in STEM-related industries. Over the next five to ten years at least fifty-five percent of the state's top jobs will require STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) skills and degrees.
Colorado Succeeds is working to be certain that our students get a strong STEM education to prepare them for success.
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You've probably heard a lot about tax reform in recent weeks. And for good reason: Taxes are crushing our small businesses.
Two-thirds of small business owners say that high taxes
threaten the viability of their business. A new JPMorgan Chase study
shows that small business expansion is negligible, as many small businesses-the backbone of the U.S. economy-"operate on a tight budget and essentially live month-to-month."
As JCN President and CEO Alfredo Ortiz
recently wrote in The Hill, "Tax reform must be broader than just focusing on the country's anti-competitive corporate tax rate-it must focus on providing relief for America's 28 million small businesses and the 85 million Americans who owe their livelihoods to them.
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COBRT and ICOSA Media, through the sponsorship of
CAP Logistics, are pleased to join
Colorado Space Business Roundtable (CSBR), the
Colorado Space Coalition (CSC),
Citizens for Space Exploration (CSE), and the
Aerospace States' Association (ASA) for a day at the Colorado State Capitol. We hope you'll join us too!
You'll be in for a full day of networking and dialogue with our Colorado legislators, discussing how Colorado became one of the largest space economies per capita in our nation and how they can effectively support aerospace in our state.
Sponsorship opportunities are still available, or
register
as an attendee for no cost.
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Colorado Oil and Gas Association raised $100,000 on Friday, March 3 at their first annual Mardi Gras Ball, a charity event for Children's Hospital. The event also honored community impact award winners. Jan Kulmann from Noble Energy won the Individual Community Impact Award, Bonanza Creek won the Small Company Community Impact Award, and PDC Energy won the Large Company Community Impact Award.
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UK creativity and innovation will be on display at the Great Britain House Denver 14-18 March. Over the course of four days, the newly renovated McNichols Civic Center Building in Downtown Denver will go British, showcasing the very best that the UK has to offer in tech, creative, industry and culture and celebrating the special relationship between the UK and the U.S. The UK has historically close ties with Colorado and those exceptionally strong economic, educational, military and cultural relationships are only deepening. Since 2009, Colorado exports to the UK have increased 56 percent to $221 million, and Colorado services exports to the UK have risen 33 percent to $1.3 billion. The UK is the state's largest foreign direct investor, having created more than 15,000 jobs. The Great Britain House Denver will foster the continued growth of this special relationship.
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The CBO has released numbers for the Republican health care bill showing a reduction to the federal deficit of $337 billion and an increase of 24 million uninsured over ten years. (more)
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) recently introduced NSBA-supported legislation to require regulators to analyze the full impact of proposed rules on small business.
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The 2017 Western Pathways Conference is uniquely focused on an issue central to the future of our economy and society: how can we build an education and workforce development system that will prepare ALL young adults for careers leading to economic independence? This will be an action oriented conference in which teams from the participating states will work together to develop plans for addressing such issues as the skills gap, strengthening connections between business and education, providing high-quality career development and career pathways, and much more.
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