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Can Improving Emotional Intelligence Reduce Conflicts Between Business Managers and Software Engineers?
In our modern world, we need software engineers. We need them to work with us effectively and efficiently to help create competitive advantage in our operations. I am sure when you read this you may have stories of order of magnitude improvements because of great...
How to Dramatically Improve IT Road Map Outcomes
This is a story of how an effective IT road map helped a manufacturer reduce their production inventory from 29 days to 3 and changed their cash position. The discovery and consideration of human factors correlated to technology, such as communication and trust,...
Are You Struggling With Managing Remote Staff? You Have Lots of Company!
During most of the 30 plus years I managed teams, 20 of those years had staff working remotely. Years before the pandemic I was an early adopter of remote work. Since the pandemic forced many more companies into remote work a lot more is becoming clearer on its...
What could possibly go wrong?! Or you might want to wait to invest in AI for your business
One of the current limitations of the current state of artificial intelligence applications is that most of its applications still require human intelligence to update and modify, or in technical lingo ‘train’ them. This article identifies a significant problem. The...
How to Prevent 98% of Cybercrime Attacks (and not drain your cash)
FUD Business leaders are bombarded with cybercrime marketing. The marketing hammers on fear, uncertainty and doubt, or FUD, which has been the IT industry’s stock in trade since IBM perfected it in the 1960’s. You will go out of business unless you buy our complex...
Successful Forecasting and Scheduling Tools
Before you hire a programmer to build you a scheduling or forecasting tool, please consider this story. The Problem I once had a CFO ask me to create a resource forecasting tool. The industry was forest products, and the tool was needed to help the sawmill forecast...
