Does a company really need to innovate? This is one of the questions I am asked on a fairly regular basis. There are many folks who firmly...

While most people pay for coffee by pulling out the wallet, swiping a card and entering a few numbers, that’s not how it’s done in Rapid...

Is an innovator born or made? That question prompted authors Hal Gregersen, Clayton Christensen and Jeff Dyer to take on an eight-year...

The Russian car wash industry has potential investors looking at the market as a possible next investment in major growth in the car wash...

Innovation experts tell us that failure is part of the innovation process. But companies with fewer innovation failures succeed more often...

As featured in last Spring’s cover story, “Smarten Up,” car wash operators have joined the broader business-intelligence (BI) movement,...

Tech giant Google already has been credited with changing the way we think about, search for and process information. So why shouldn’t it...

David Begin

Wild Blue Car Wash, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Q: Tell us about your business.

Small business owners may wonder what, besides lowering prices, can be done to get ahead of the competition. But the history books are...

This year is a special one for the ICA. 2014 marks the 100-year anniversary of the car wash industry, which in itself is a pretty surreal...

When California Gov. Jerry Brown declared an emergency drought in the state in January, car wash owners and operators in the state had...

In a few years, dirty cars may be driving themselves to the car wash — and their owners may not even need to go along for the ride.

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