ATTOM’s newly released Q4 2022 Opportunity Zones Report found that median single-family home and condo prices decreased from Q3 to Q4 2022 in 56 percent of qualified zones around the country, and went down at least 5 percent in almost half. The report noted those declines closely paralleled drops in neighborhoods outside the zones as prices fell across the broader U.S. housing market during the second half of 2022, following a decade of almost continuous growth. According to ATTOM’s latest opportunity zones report, some signs emerged during the fourth quarter, however, revealing that designated zones targeted for redevelopment, were withstanding the national market retreat better than other neighborhoods. The report mentioned this happened just as they outperformed nationwide increases by some measures during the boom period. The report also noted that larger portions of opportunity zones saw typical values rise by at least 10 percent both quarterly and annually compared to the rest of the nation during the last few months of 2022. The report found that typical home values in opportunity zones remained well below those in most other neighborhoods around the nation in Q4 2022, as median prices fell beneath the nationwide figure of $321,500 in 79 […]

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Feb. 17, 2023 — Washington, DC — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $80 million, provided by the Office of Science, to support fundamental research to drive the innovation cycle in support of the Accelerate Innovations in Emerging Technologies (Accelerate) initiative. The program announcement can be found here . A webinar on this opportunity will be held on February 27th at 2 p.m. EST, registration is here . Total combined planned funding is up to $80 million over two years, with outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. The funding anticipated for each award is $2M to $4M per year. Applications are open to the DOE national laboratories. Partnerships with other institutions, including academia, other national laboratories, not-for-profit organizations, or industry, are strongly encouraged, especially partnerships with emerging research institutions, including Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Accelerate seeks to integrate novel concepts and approaches into fundamental research that could accelerate the innovation process, greatly reducing the time from discovery to product, which can take years to decades. Accelerating the innovation cycle requires identification of key gaps that need to be overcome at the early stages of basic research so these innovations can enter […]

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Written by Summary ILPT is trading at a very deep discount to its peers, due to various reasons, including the bad reputation of the company’s external manager. The company is very leveraged but tries to keep financing costs down by securing interest rate caps. I believe that the high debt issue will be tackled by a combination of asset sales and share offerings. The external management deal has clauses that link the manager’s remuneration directly to market cap, in a positive manner. Thus, a speculative investment in ILPT could make sense, at least until the P/FFO gap closes by 200 bp. gremlin It is no secret to people that have been investing for more than 15 years that the stock exchange is full of stories of greed and conflict of interest. Future readers should specifically read the story of Industrial Logistics Properties Trust (NASDAQ: ILPT ). It is a story of a high quality industrial REIT that is caught in the storm due to an unwise decision: The decision to get severely leveraged. And when a banker knocks on your door, the first thing to do is to slice your dividend. A few months ago, I had written an […]

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Source: Shutterstock Does the February share price for UP Global Sourcing Holdings plc ( LON:UPGS ) reflect what it’s really worth? Today, we will estimate the stock’s intrinsic value by taking the forecast future cash flows of the company and discounting them back to today’s value. Our analysis will employ the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. Don’t get put off by the jargon, the math behind it is actually quite straightforward. We generally believe that a company’s value is the present value of all of the cash it will generate in the future. However, a DCF is just one valuation metric among many, and it is not without flaws. For those who are keen learners of equity analysis, the Simply Wall St analysis model here may be something of interest to you. Crunching The Numbers We are going to use a two-stage DCF model, which, as the name states, takes into account two stages of growth. The first stage is generally a higher growth period which levels off heading towards the terminal value, captured in the second ‘steady growth’ period. In the first stage we need to estimate the cash flows to the business over the next ten years. […]

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Hear about the latest in grant funding opportunities as well as how the North Central Regional Planning Commission can partner with your community or organization to build a successful future by attending one of three community connection events in the region. According to the organization, the events will be an opportunity to get to know the NCRPC staff and learn about available project assistance that can help bring community or organization goals to reality. There are three options to attend as follows: • March 7 in Washington, Kansas, at the KSDS Meeting Room located at 702 D Street from 6 to 8 p.m. • March 9 in Beloit, Kansas, at the NCRPC Basement Meeting Room located at 109 N. Mill Street from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. • March 14 in Ellsworth, Kansas, at the High Jinks Rec Club located at 301 N. Main Street from 6 to 8 p.m. “There are so many funding options that communities can access, but they are ever changing and sometimes have very short application windows. This is a chance for communities to visit with us so that they can be prepared to capitalize on these opportunities,” said NCRPC Strategic Development Advisor Deb Ohlde. […]

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Successful digital transformations start with getting the basics right. Digital transformations are notoriously hard. In Forrester’s Business And Technology Services Survey, 2022 , nearly all services decision-makers have or anticipate challenges in executing their digital transformation. But this does not mean that there is some secret sauce that only a chosen few digital natives possess that remains hidden to the rest of us. Akin to fitness plans, there’s a new program revealed regularly, presenting the latest “celebrity secret” to finally getting the transformation results you seek. But as with exercise, the foundation for a successful digital transformation starts with getting the basics right. And our data shows that most transformation journeys are still struggling with the basics. Don’t get me wrong: To truly excel at transformation, advanced concepts are crucial. At Forrester, we apply these daily to help clients push the envelope toward becoming future fit enterprises. But those concepts won’t help as long as the basics are not in place. In Forrester’s Business And Technology Services Survey, 2022, we asked more than 1,300 services decision-makers to tell us about the main challenges they encounter when executing digital transformation initiatives. Here are the ones that made the podium: Winner: […]

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Todd Pruzan, HBR Welcome to the HBR Video Quick Take. I’m Todd Pruzan, senior editor for research and special projects at Harvard Business Review. Accenture, a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital cloud and security, recently partnered with Bosch, a German multinational engineering and technology company, on Bosch’s Digital Fluency Program, to deliver a sustainable digital transformation. Today, I’m speaking with Manish Chandra, Managing Director of Strategy and Consulting, the Supply Chain and Operations Lead in India, and Zero-Based Transformation Lead for Growth Markets, to talk about Accenture’s role in Bosch’s Digital Fluency Program and the areas where digital can deliver sustainable value for automotive and industrial companies. Manish, thank you so much for being with us today. Manish Chandra, Accenture It’s my pleasure. Todd Pruzan, HBR Manish, Accenture recently led a digital transformation study across industries and geographic regions. What were the key insights from that study? Manish Chandra, Accenture We covered close to 900 companies across geographies, and what we found was that the overall digital maturity has moved from 39% to 48% over the last two years, which is pre-Covid and post-Covid. However, there has been a significant bi-polarization between the leaders and […]

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HCLTech has released the 2023 edition of its Tech Trends report aimed to offer an assessment of the technologies that will shape digital transformation and enable modern enterprises to stay ahead of the curve. The seventh edition of the annual report from HCLTech’s Enterprise Technology Office names the trends that are expected to play a crucial role in accelerating three critical characteristics – flexibility, speed and scale – for businesses in the post-pandemic digital-first era. Democratization of AI: 2023 will witness wide-scale democratization of AI – from enabling chatbots to integrating into the chip industry for developing AI-ready hardware. Accelerated shift to multi-cloud: Progression to multi-cloud will accelerate significantly in 2023. Sovereign and industry clouds will be more widely accepted, with more than half of the enterprises using industry cloud solutions by 2027. Cybersecurity transformation driven by quantum technologies: Industrial applications of quantum technologies will be realized in quantum-secure communications and optimizing machine learning models with the help of quantum machine learning. Low-code, no-code platforms for super-app development: By 2024, low-code development will account for more than 65% of application development activities. 5G applications go mainstream: 5G will become the de facto standard in the coming years, with increased […]

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Sharareh (Sherri) Kermanshachi Sharareh (Sherri) Kermanshachi, a University of Texas at Arlington associate professor of civil engineering, has partnered with Modii (formerly known as Spot Parking), the UTA Department of Parking and Transportation Services and the North Central Texas Council of Governments and secured a $500,148 two-year grant to develop and evaluate a digital map for UTA parking lots that will allow motorists to electronically access available parking spaces. The team will use accumulated UTA data to digitally transform parking management across the campus and evaluate the effectiveness of the new system. This project will provide immediate benefits to the campus by enhancing sustainability practices because motorists will use less fuel and increase efficiency of existing parking assets on campus. The project also will seek to improve users’ experiences and establish an artificial intelligence-based system to predict future demand. “Parking has become a major challenge for campuses across the country,” Kermanshachi said. “The search for parking spaces leads to a daily waste of time and gas and more emissions by students, faculty, staff and visitors.” Kermanshachi also is the director of the Resilient Infrastructures and Sustainable Environment Lab, assistant director of research initiatives in the College of Engineering, and […]

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Lacy Martin CommerceHealthcare has released its fifth annual Healthcare Finance Trends report, and its insights range across regulatory, financial, technological and supply chain considerations. The report includes an in-depth analysis of research combined with practice experience and identifies consideration for the industry given multiple intersecting challenges in the year ahead. One trend that will continue to carry importance for health care leaders is the need for a digital transformation. Digital transformation is fundamental to changes in the health care business and care delivery model. IBM’s website succinctly captures the goal: “Digital transformation means adopting digital-first customer, business-partner and employee experiences.” A leading forecaster believes 70% of health care organizations will rely on digital-first strategies by 2027, according to an International Data Corp. report titled Futurescape: Worldwide Healthcare Industry 2023. Transformation efforts need to accelerate. One study by Huron Consulting showed that “digital, technology and analytics strategies exist for nearly all organizations, yet only 30% have begun to execute on those plans.” However, one functional segment ramping up digital transformation is finance. According to a recent survey by Black Book Market Research, 94% of chief financial officers and senior leaders stated that such efforts will be at the forefront of […]

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