So what does the business future hold for us? Well, for openers there are deep labor shortages, wink-of-the-eye product and job obsolescence, and a tempest of ever-escalating changes, futurist Ed Barlow told IAMC's St. Louis Professional Forum last week. And the good news? If we're agile enough, we might just ride out the storm. A Mechanic from the Fast-Tense Future: "The change that's coming," futurist Ed Barlow (pictured) told IAMC, "will be like rebuilding a car from the ground up – and rebuilding it while the car is already running at top speed." This issue brings you new and exclusive stories from the September 2007 issue of Site Selection, including: Quebec Spotlight: "Quebec Has the Right Prescription for Life Sciences" India: "Elephants in the Room" (Expanded Web Edition) Asian Automotive: "Homegrown Heft" Special Advertising Section: Biotech Location Strategies THE SITENET DISPATCH IS SPONSORED BY: Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corp. and North Carolina's Touchstone Energy cooperatives.

Oui, Quebec: Boehringer-Ingleheim is expanding its R&D center in Laval (pictured), one of the pharmaceutical giant's four major global research centers. There's more expansion news online in global project coverage from London-based partner Oxford Intelligence. This week's installment includes: "Futaba Plans New Plant in India" "Handelsbanken Opens Branch in Latvia" "Stadler Rail Decides on Hungarian Location" "T-Systems Creates 100 Jobs in Madrid" "Cordea Savills Launches Office in Sweden" Copacetic clicking, Jack Lyne Site Selection Executive Editor of Interactive Publishing

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