This is a short one….lots going on this week.
I got a lot of great feedback on a post I wrote titled “Consultants – Do we need them?“. In that post I argue that consultants are necessary…not a necessary evil mind-you…but a necessity for modern day IT organizations.
One of the lines of that struck a chord [...]
I ran across an interesting post today titled “Why you don’t need Social Media Consultants” on the Brains on Fire Blog. The main thesis of the post is: “social media consultants provide little value…they do nothing more than you already know how to do so you don’t need them”.
In the article, Spike Jones says:
If you [...]
When did common sense get removed from the corporate technology selection process?
For those that don’t know what it is, technology selection is the process by which an organization decides which technology platform (software, hardware, etc) will be used for a particular application and/or piece of the business. For example, selecting an organization’s Content Management [...]
So here I am….a consultant. I’ve been operating independently for a while now and have come to the following conclusions:
The ‘problem’ is very rarely the problem.
Consulting is an art, not a science. Of course, this applies to most careers, but I think some people lose sight of this. There are many people say ‘do x,y [...]
Everyone wants to work with the ideal client, but how many consultants and entrepreneurs out there can afford the luxury of holding out for this mythical ideal client? Read on.
Anne-Marie Nichols at The Write Spot has an interesting post titled “Identifying your ideal client” that I found interesting. In the article, Anne-Marie [...]
Rajesh Setty at Life Beyond Code has been posting “Quought for the Day*” posts for the last few weeks (see the end of this post for the definition of Quought). These “Quoughts” are very thought provoking and interesting and are included in my daily blog reading. The “Quought for the Day” for January [...]
Trusted Advisor Associates has an interesting post today about trust titled “Bad Marketing 101: Trust Me!” I thought the article was worth linking to. An excerpt from the article is below.
Why does saying “trust me†accomplish the opposite? Because it violates social norms, and because it is self-contradictory.
More importantly, “trusted advisor†is something [...]
The recent IEEE Engineering Management newsletter had a link to an excellent Case Study reference guide…thought I’d post it here for everyone else:
http://college.hmco.com/business/resources/casestudies/students/
There is an interesting PDF file that describes the process of writing case studies that looks very interesting.
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