INSIGHTs & INTUITION

What’s at the top of your list of company goals for progress in 2017?

2017 will be an exciting year as we complete the Fargo project and begin work to upgrade our other plants throughout the network. Our recently completed digitization project will clear the way for gigabit capacity for both residential and business customers. Headend and field operations upgrades have begun in several of our key communities, and that should all complete in 2017. We expect to close on our recent acquisition of the cable telecom system in Lawrence, Kansas, and plan to expand our data center operations.

While the list is ambitious, thanks to our extraordinary team, we will accomplish it without taking our eyes off our primary goal. We remain committed to creating a Midco brand and culture that embodies high performance and commitment to our customers.

Brent Wavra

COMMISSIONING SOLUTIONS FARGO

At Commissioning Solutions (CxS), we have three main goals for the 2017 calendar year. We have a new service we launched in 2016 that will undergo rebranding so that we can market it across the nation. In addition to that, we put a heavy focus in 2016 on getting our new building commissioning and retro-commissioning processes down pat so that we could grow CxS staff in our satellite offices in 2017.

Looking forward to 2017, Lake Area Tech will continue to push innovative and effective ways to recruit, retain, graduate and place our students in the region’s high-demand and high-paying technically skilled workforce. Being ranked as one of the top community colleges in the nation for seven consecutive years has solidified our efforts to be the best two-year college available, and as a result, aim to achieve our 14th consecutive year of record growth. Our end goal is to have a record number of graduates whose wages surpass the high marks set by previous classes as they pursue their careers.

We will look to build on our “people first” approach in our interactions with our customers, employees and communities. We strive to live our core values while we are at work and in the community.

Two of our core values are bettering the places we live and embracing change. This requires employees who are flexible, innovative and understand that it is not our products first, but our people first approach that is making a difference in their communities throughout North Dakota.

So look for us to continue to create, build, volunteer and be even more charitable in 2017 and beyond.