GUEST POST: How Small Businesses Can Build a Scalable Real-Time Customer Data Strategy
Real-time customer data has become the heartbeat of modern business operations. Whether you’re tracking online behavior, managing personalized offers, or monitoring service usage, the ability to act on data instantly can dramatically improve customer experience and business agility. But to make this power sustainable, small business owners need one essential component: a scalability plan. A scalability plan isn’t just about adding servers or software capacity, it’s about ensuring your systems, processes, and data models [...]
Strada Education Foundation Releases State Opportunity Index
The Indiana Chamber is grateful to the Strada Education Foundation for releasing the 2025 State Opportunity Index (SOI) and for shining a light on the shared responsibility we all have in advancing opportunity through education and work. We are especially appreciative that Strada highlighted the EARN (Employment Aid Readiness Network) program — an acknowledgment of Indiana’s continued leadership in work-based learning and employer engagement. The EARN program exemplifies how coordinated partnerships among employers, educators [...]
Collaboration and Competitiveness: Charting IEDC’s Next Phase
Indiana’s economic development practices have received heightened attention since the October 2 release of the “Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) Forensic Review.” While the audit identified opportunities to modernize governance, documentation and ROI measurement, it is important to recognize the IEDC’s pivotal role in shaping Indiana’s strong business climate and sustained capital investment growth. In recent years, Indiana has consistently ranked among the nation’s leaders in major project attraction. According to IEDC reports, the [...]
Federal Tax Changes Likely to Shape Early Session Agenda
Indiana lawmakers are expected to take up conformity with the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) as one of the first major items of the upcoming session. Because Indiana currently conforms to federal tax law only through January 1, 2023, legislators must decide which of the new federal provisions to adopt for Tax Year 2025. Governor Braun's administration has already convened an internal working group to assess fiscal impacts, and several provisions are [...]
Childcare Summit Coalesces Ideas Among Stakeholders
The Indiana Chamber recently held its very first Childcare Summit. We spent the first half of the day level setting with Adam Alson, director of the Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning. Alson provided attendees an overview of current Childcare and Development Fund vouchers allocations, staffing and contract reductions, and challenges on the forefront. We also received information from Early Learning Indiana, and Brittany Scott from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Linda [...]
