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The Council's 2010 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index indicated that the U.S. ranks fourth in global competitiveness behind China, India, and South Korea, and is expected to fall to number five, much due to outdated manufacturing policies and a lack of investment. This year, China became the global leader in manufacturing output by dollar amount, ending […]

This paper captured the high level requirements and attributes that a public-private partnership to advance modeling and simulation in small and medium sized manufacturers must contain, as captured on August 31, 2010, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center summit. This document became the framework for what evolved into the proposal for the National Digital […]

Leaders in the United States and Brazil—the two largest economies in the Western Hemisphere—confront a global economy characterized as much by uncertainty as by a range of new opportunities that will underpin productivity, economic growth, and job creation in the years to come. In an effort to understand and shape an action plan and seize […]

This paper was written to frame the discussion at a summit that brought together over 50 participants. Held at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago, the goal was to discuss the necessary elements of a public-private partnership to support advancing modeling and simulation in the manufacturing supply chain. This discussion represented the […]

Prepare represents the thought leadership of a group of C-suite executives and resilience experts who met for a day and half at a Risk Intelligence and Resilience Workshop in Wilmington, DE, in the fall of 2009. Their key finding: The next new revolution in business will be in risk management and resilience.

The purpose of the Technology Leadership & Strategy Initiative (TLSI) a distinctive, leadership network of chief technology officers from industry, academia and national laboratories incubated by the Council on Competitiveness is to understand a range of changes, challenges and opportunities facing the United States and to design a new paradigm for public-private partnership necessary to […]

The Council on Competitiveness (Council) has been working on regional economic development since it launched its Clusters of Innovation project in 1999 in cooperation with Harvard professor Michael Porter. As a leadership body, the Council focuses on those issues that increase U.S. productivity, innovative capacity and global competitiveness, the key elements that drive the Council’s […]

The 2010 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index is a collaboration between Deloitte and the Council on Competitiveness (Council). The study gathered data from CEOs and senior manufacturing business unit leaders in late 2009 and early 2010. It is the first major report of a multi-year initiative by the Council exploring the issues of policy and capability […]

The Council looks back at its accomplishments in 2009 and provides an detailed look at all that is planned for 2010.