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  • Top personnel management mistakes

    Managers make disastarous mistakes when they fail to fire, give management responsibilities inappropriately.

    Blog posts | September 20, 2006 2:13pm PDT

  • IT computing back to the future

    The cutting edge of the computer world combines the PC's graphical interface (browser) with high-performance database applications. Are we rushing towards the centralized IT of the past?

    Blog posts | September 19, 2006 12:04pm PDT

  • NIMS: Planning in the real world

    National Incident Management System provides framework to respond to an incidents of any size, planned or unplanned, from a single organization to a national response.

    Blog posts | September 8, 2006 1:33pm PDT

  • How high are your employees' plates piled?

    I told myself I had created a safe environment and that it's employees' duty to tell me when their plates are too full. Then I looked in the mirror.

    Blog posts | September 7, 2006 1:14pm PDT

  • Sexy Tools + Zero Planning = Failure

    Lessons on running a webinar from the voice of experience.

    Blog posts | August 23, 2006 3:43pm PDT

  • Stop coddling the computer illiterate

    What's with this technology-ignorance badge of honor that people seem to wear so proudly? I, frankly, have never understood it nor understand why it is tolerated.

    Blog posts | August 9, 2006 3:37pm PDT

  • Hate your job? Look in the mirror

    There are no shortage of reasons why people are unhappy in their jobs, but much job unhappiness is self-inflicted. It's far easier to change your ways than to change your manager, organization or...

    Blog posts | August 3, 2006 8:39pm PDT

  • Vista: MS still owns the desktop

    By the time Vista is released, it will have been seven years since Microsoft made a meaningful OS release with Windows 2000. Linux developers have missed that gaping opportunity. Vista shows...

    Blog posts | July 11, 2006 2:51pm PDT

  • How essential are you?

    Continuity of operations plans require identification of 'essential' personnel. But who, and what agency, isn't essential? Actually, the question is, who is?

    Blog posts | July 10, 2006 9:41pm PDT

  • Performance evaluations: Love, hate, need, want

    Do you love them, hate them, need them, want them? To be honest, I'm a bit schizophrenic about them, because all of the above apply to me.

    Blog posts | July 7, 2006 12:32pm PDT

  • Is an MBA the only way to advance?

    In some circles, those three letters are a requirement for a C-level position, and while I will never say that going back to school is a bad idea, there are ways to learn your "business" without...

    Blog posts | June 13, 2006 12:04pm PDT

  • Feature-rich or hard to use?

    When asked the question "Who else is using it?" in relation to a product, the answer I want to scream is: "Who cares!"

    Blog posts | June 12, 2006 3:24pm PDT

  • How thin is too thin?

    I have been in several disaster planning sessions recently in which it has been stressed that you need to define who your "key personnel" are in the event of an emergency. I began to think about...

    Blog posts | June 1, 2006 3:04pm PDT

  • ¿Hablas español?

    Raise your hand if your website is multilingual. My guess is you probably do not have your hand raised right now. In fact, you are probably thinking that it is hard enough providing new services...

    Blog posts | May 24, 2006 1:04pm PDT

  • 50 Ways to Leave Your Vendor

    Leaving your lover just might be easier than leaving your vendor, particularly if you have developed a relationship over time and their products are intertwined throughout your organization and...

    Blog posts | May 16, 2006 11:23am PDT

  • No time to document?

    I have been getting comments recently that folks are just too busy to document what they do, and that their supervisors do not condone documentation.

    Blog posts | May 12, 2006 2:37pm PDT

  • ROI on a data dictionary?

    When it comes to the value of a good data dictionary, the ROI calculation is a simple matter of 'pay me now or pay me later.'

    Blog posts | May 8, 2006 1:40pm PDT

  • IT project success is all about getting buy-in

    Despite all the technological goodness in your project, if you don't sell it well and find the managers who will sell it to users, you ain't a goin' nowhere.

    Blog posts | May 4, 2006 11:58am PDT

  • MobiKEY: Poor man's VPN?

    Need a secure way for workers to access machines from remote locations? MobiKEY offers hardware-based authentication and validation. My interest is definitely piqued.

    Blog posts | April 24, 2006 9:55pm PDT

  • Survey says: We will cut off our nose to spite our face

    It's been one of those weeks where I have borne witness to a lot of decision-making that seems to be decoupled from logic. Actually, that's not true; there is logic behind this decision-making,...

    Blog posts | April 21, 2006 3:39pm PDT

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