Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
“We live in a cynical world. A cynical world.” – Jerry Maguire. There are lot of skeptics out there, especially in the workplace, and who can blame them? Over the course of a working life, how many times have we been let down by our leaders – for promises not kept, changes that are never made, money that is never spent, or raises that never come ?
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 18, 2012
There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.” If you’re moving backward, who’s fault is it? Who is responsible? We all know the answer to this. The people whose careers seem to grow the fastest follow similar patterns of behavior. They understand competition exists, they recognize the steps they need to take to succeed, and they understand who is responsible.
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Change Starts Here
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
On this episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma, my guest is Dr. Trina Hess of The Humor Academy, who will help us answer the question, “What’s So Funny About Change?” Tune in to hear why it is important to laugh our way through change. Learn how to introduce humor into your initiative and explore its limitations. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): Be sure to visit the radio show page to listen to past episodes and subscribe to the show.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
Guest post by Micaela “Bubola” Passeri (learn more about the author at the end of this post). Home-based business professionals have challenges when it comes to keeping their work and personal space separate. In this new economic landscape, more and more people are working from home and attempting to create a balance between their personal and business lives.
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Steve Farber
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Every couple of years, I like to take out this old essay, brush off the dust, and shove it back in the spotlight. Maybe this time it’s because I’ve given up eating sugar, so it’s a way to satisfy my still abating sweet tooth. Whatever the reason, I hope you get a kick out of it. This was my very first published piece. Originally titled An Airport Story , it ran in Tom Peters ‘ old newsletter, On Achieving Excellence , and in The San Jose Mercury News.
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Ruminations of a Programmer
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
James Iry recently blogged on code density and tries to find out the meaning of "dense code". As an example he took upon the topic of regular expressions, which despite being dense are not frowned upon in coding and hardly get replaced for making the code fragment more readable. So the question is what makes code dense so that it's not acceptable to programmers and they complain about it's incomprehensibility ?
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Guest Post by Ginny Clarke (learn more about the author at the end of the post). You’ve put a lot of effort into a résumé, an elevator pitch, company research and traditional networking, but you’re still coming up short in your job search or career progression. You’re understandably disappointed, but here’s the good news: it probably isn’t the tools you’ve created, but the lack of a detailed job search plan or map that is inhibiting your success.
McCrory
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Having covered Data Gravity several times on this blog, I thought that it would be time to cover a derivative topic: Artificial Data Gravity. Recall that Data Gravity is the attractive force created by Data amassing and the needs of Apps and Services to leverage low latency and high bandwidth. Artificial Data Gravity is the […].
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know I’m a fan of Ford CEO Alan Mulally. He started in the top job at Ford about five years ago and, he has led the company to quarter after quarter of profitable growth. He’s accomplished that through any number of ways. Probably one of the biggest is by changing the. Click headline to continue.
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Six Disciplines
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
In the Best Companies for Leaders survey , management consultancy Hay Group identified the top 20 best-in-class companies as well as what makes these companies known for great leadership. Key findings of the Hay Group's research: When asked what organizations value the most in leaders, 83 percent of the best-in-class organizations as compared to others said “ execution.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
I was doing something decidedly none business yesterday (replacing my dead dryer) and the sales representative that was helping me was glued to his IPAD. Now I applaud the store for the use of technology to create a more accurate account of inventory, but to run a business you actually have to talk to your customers! The sales representative was great; he was friendly and knowledgeable and did everything he could do to help us try to find an appliance in stock to take home that day.
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Mistakes in payroll can be embarrassing and costly for small companies – as well as demoralising for their workforce. Small firms can ill afford to pay penalties for sloppy procedures. Many employees do not immediately check their payslips so it is important that errors are prevented before it is too late.
The Programmer's Paradox
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
The standard approach to getting a big project accomplished to identify the problem, come to an overall solution, then keep breaking it down into smaller, more manageable pieces. Once these are small enough -- specific tasks -- all that’s left is to march through them one-by-one and complete them. This is quite a reasonable way to approach problems where the problem isn’t heavily hierarchical in nature and the sub-parts are mutually independent or at least mostly independent.
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Coalfire
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
HIMSS12 is in full production in Las Vegas this week. Over 40,000 healthcare IT professionals and service providers have descended upon a conference that will set the direction for a new wave to technology innovations for the healthcare industry. Almost every booth has a sign that extolls the benefits of cloud-based services delivered through mobile devices.
The Accidental Successful CIO
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
'Feedback sessions need to be done more often with younger IT workers…. A part of a CIO’s job is to let those people who report to him or her know how they are doing. At most companies, this is done once a year during an annual employee review. I’m not sure about you, but have you ever asked yourself if this is the best way to do this kind of thing?
McCrory
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Having covered Data Gravity several times on this blog, I thought that it would be time to cover a derivative topic: Artificial Data Gravity. Recall that Data Gravity is the attractive force created by Data amassing and the needs of Apps and Services to leverage low latency and high bandwidth. Artificial Data Gravity is the […].
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
Social media - hired or fired because of it? Public social media is now a part of many people's every day life, and as time goes by, increasingly it is being used as a tool against individuals. With many organisations publicly encouraging people to "g.
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Coalfire
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Healthcare organizations have been working towards HIPAA and HITECH compliance for a few years now. “Surprise” HIPAA compliance audits conducted by the OCR have begun and at Coalfire we’ve come across some gaps that have led organizations to fall short of their compliance initiatives.
Six Disciplines
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Executive Summary. Customer Profile. Bluffton Motor Works, located in Bluffton, Indiana is a global leader in custom-engineered fractional motors. Bluffton Motor Works serves a wide variety of OEM manufacturers and industrial production facilities. The Challenge. Bluffton Motor Works (BLMW) needed help identifying highly important, high-impact initiatives for their business.Read the entire Bluffton Motor Works client success story here.
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Turbulent economic times typically require budgetary constraint and even cutbacks. As business slows and revenues decline, executives demand managers reduce spending and increase production efficiency. Waste cannot be tolerated and must be rooted out. The text above is only a small portion of this article. Become a StrategyDriven Premium Member to gain access to the entire article and the over 100 StrategyDriven members-only articles, whitepapers, models, and tools and templates.
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Is twitter a waste of time? Is it? Sure there are people that use twitter in very diverse ways - and that is a good thing. I know many people that have multiple accounts, some for "business" others for "very personal" uses. But the stats show that a.
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As a SaaS leader, you know that the more metrics, insights, and analytics you add to your products, the more engagement you’ll have – and the stickier your product will become with customers. At what point do you decide to keep building your analytics in-house or invest in an embedded analytics solution? Read our Build vs. Buy Analytics guide to learn: Top 4 benefits of embedded analytics A quick cost comparison of in-house analytics development vs embedded analytics 10 considerations to help yo
Nutanix
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
How do we manage a very large and complex product that could potentially have hundreds or thousands of entities?
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
RapidBI in Evan Carmichael’s Top 100 Productivity Experts Many of you may know Evan Carmichael’s site. Using a range of tools Evan measures and publishes top blogs and tweeters on a range of business related topics. I am pleased to say that @RapidBI is increasing in the top 50. In this list we have increased from #36 to #25 [.].
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
SoLoMo or SoEnCo? Which is the sustainable future? Is it one, the other or are the very different things? SoLoMo Social, Local & Mobile - is certainly the "next big thing" but is it sustyainable, or a sign of the technology and social/ economic ti.
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 19, 2012
Change Curve Debunked? Some time ago I read an interesting post by Rob Robson on the change curve at his blog (Now defunct). This sparked some thoughts which I share below. Change Curve debunked. really? Rob asks is the Kubler Ross change.
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In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
When an employee hands in the resignation should we make a counter offer to retain them? Human capital retention is the key strategy to talent management.
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
How Blogging Can Help Business Increase Sales Those of us that blog know this stuff works, but it is useful when we come across small prices of research which support and reinforce our actions. Interestingly while blogging for B2B is not as effecti.
Rapid BI
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
Increase Communication Between Your Colleagues The pace of work is increasing, we have less people to do the same, if not more work, and the irony is that it is in times like this that we need to spend more time on smarter communications between our p.
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