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May 27, 2008
McKinsey on Responding to Competition

Interesting study released by McKinsey has just been released titled "How companies respond to competitors: A McKinsey Global Survey." The study, which is

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May 23, 2008
Technology Selection Revisted

If you didn't believe my ramblings in "Common Sense and Technology Selection", I've got a nice anecdotal (and funny) story that backs up my assertion that

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May 22, 2008
Factors affecting Productivity – IT, Management and Process

Interesting analysis today over on Jeffrey Phillips' Thinking Faster Blog in an article titled "Productivity Barriers". Note: if you have an interest in

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May 20, 2008
Aligning Business and Technology with People

Aligning business and information technology by hiring the right people. Implementing Human Capital Management practices to ensure alignment.

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May 19, 2008
A Thought on Employee Engagement

Employee engagement has been seen as a 'buzzword' for some time but also been touted as something that every organization should focus on. It appears that

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May 16, 2008
Website Updates

Just an fyi to those that visit my site occasionally....I've just made a change on the 'look and feel' of the site. Hope you like it. Changes: Moved to a

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May 16, 2008
Simplicity equals Success

Interesting story in the Wall Street Journal's Business Technology Section titled "Keeping it Simple Pays for a Champion Coder". The article points to the

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May 14, 2008
Blu Domain: Poor Service Defined

It's been a while since I've railed against bad customer service....namely because I've not been too upset with the various services that I've received.

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May 13, 2008
Common Sense and Technology Selection

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

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May 8, 2008
Cost is a fact, Price is a decision

I had the following stated to me today in a meeting: "Cost is a fact, Price is a decision" What a great quote and very true. The cost of a product or

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May 6, 2008
Improving Knowledge in Projects

This post is an excerpt of a recent paper titled "Improving Knowledge in Projects."

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May 3, 2008
When half an hour is greater than 14.5 hours

Heard a wonderful story last week from a developer friend of mine and thought I'd share (with commentary of course!). He had taken a full-time job at an

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May 2, 2008
Five Customer Retention Tips That Really Work (Guest Post)

This is a guest post written by Heather Johnson, who regularly writes on the topic of career exploration. See her byline at the end of this article for

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May 1, 2008
Flexible working hours revisted

Management issues had posted another article (see the previous one here and my comments on the topic here) topic titled "Still suspicious of flexible

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Apr 30, 2008
Specialization within Project Management

Over the last few years I've started noticing a trend toward specialization within the field of project management. These specializations seem to break

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