Kansas City Michael Raynor is a director at one of the world’s largest consulting firms, Deloitte Consulting, where he works with executives of world-leading companies across a variety of industries. His résumé doesn’t stop there though, as he's also written multiple best-selling books on innovation, including “The Innovator’s Manifesto,” which he published last year. Ten years of consistent study tend to make a person knowledgeable on a subject, and Raynor showed that in delivering … read more

Kansas City If you were to guess the location of some Kansas City and the Midwest’s best developers and designers over the weekend, a golf course may not be your first choice, unless you knew about Hack The Midwest. Saturday morning nearly 100 hackers filed into the clubhouse of the Heartland Golf Club and set up shop to participate in the inaugural rendition of the 24-hour hackathon. The event kicked off with breakfast and API talks by representatives from MapQuest, SendGrid, Mashery, Dwolla and Ordr.in … read more