Scot Herrick over at CubeRules had a very interesting post today titled “Innovating Like Crazy; Executing Like Crap“. Great title and great thoughts in his post, including this one: Innovation is essential to your work. Yet delivery of the innovation is the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual grace that you provide [...]
Saturn Aura Problem – Update #4
December 27, 2007 By Leave a Comment
IT and Business Alignment – Survey Results
December 18, 2007 By 3 Comments
Diamond Consultants released the results of their Digital IQ Survey recently (download the full survey here) that provides some very interesting (and surprising?) insights into Business and IT Alignment. Before we dive into the results, let’s set the stage with some basic info about the survey: 456 executives surveyed with about half the respondents being [...]
First semester is complete
December 16, 2007 By 4 Comments
Cube Rules – A journey
December 16, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Check out Scot Herrick’s Cube Rules blog, especially the new series that started with “Laid Of — A new journey begins.” Scot and his wife were both laid off at Washington Mutual last week and Scot has started a series on the subject with some very interesting insights into the mindset of someone going through [...]
Verizon FIOS goodness
December 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Saturn Aura Problem – Update #3
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Saturn Aura Problem – Update #2
December 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment
For background, see here and here. Received a call Monday afternoon (December 10) and was told that the tool that the dealership was waiting on had arrived and they have narrowed the problem down to the PCM. They ordered a new part for overnight delivery and would be installing it today (Tuesday). I’ve been promised [...]
Google & Resource Diversity & Immobility
December 10, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Read an interesting article on GigaOm yesterday titled “Google’s Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage” (go read it if you haven’t). This post, and Google’s strategy, is a great example of using Resource Diversity and Immobility to build an advantage in your market. If you’ll recall from my previous posts (here, here and especially here), using [...]
Saturn Aura Problem – Update
December 8, 2007 By 2 Comments
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