21st Century Leadership: An Evolutionary Profile (Guest Profile: Forrest Breyfogle III) Forrest Brefogle III, is a Professional Engineer and ASQ Fellow who founded Smarter Solutions in 1992. Considered to be a thought leader in the area of Integrated Enterprise Excellence, the author of the IEE series of books is also a recognized figure on the… [Read more…]
June 27, 2009
What Would George Orwell Say About LinkedIn? I read an article today indicating that LinkedIn was going to suspend the accounts of members who contacted people that they did not know. As the pundit put (and I am paraphrasing), “if I go to a Chamber of Commerce Event the organizers do not tell me that… [Read more…]
June 26, 2009
Today’s PI Window on Business Show, “Emerging Giants: The New Titan’s of the SaaS World” is now available through the following link; http://ping.fm/pR1o8
June 25, 2009
By Dr. Olga Raskina, Lead Scientist, Emptoris, Inc. This article is the third in a three-part series of guest articles on optimization by Dr. Olga Raskina, Lead Scientist, with Emptoris, the supply and contract management solutions provider. In the two previous posts I have provided somewhat of a birds-eye view of optimization, particularly in terms… [Read more…]
June 25, 2009
In a recent segment of the PI Window on Business Show titled “Has Blogging Crossed The Threshold of Legitimacy,” an esteemed guest panel discussed the advent of Blogging and other forms of social media as a viable and reliable source of information. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that these emerging mediums… [Read more…]
June 24, 2009
21st Century Leadership: An Evolutionary Profile (Guest Profile: Bill McAneny) Bill McAneny, is an organisational psychologist based near London. As well as his international consulting work and design of online learning and assessment systems Bill is also the author of “Frankenstein’s Manager” which outlines why management training does not lead to better-performing managers. Bill is… [Read more…]
June 23, 2009
White Paper Excerpt: It is not often that I encounter something truly remarkable within a world of that which is commonly “known.” What is even more amazing is that it is often the seemingly obvious that delivers the greatest surprise. For many years and with funding from the Government of Canada’s Scientific Research and Experimental… [Read more…]
June 23, 2009
“The goal of a good translation is when the source and the target texts communicate the same message . . . Measuring Success in Translation, an industry axiom When I received an advanced copy of Next Level Purchasing’s press release announcing that they were about to introduce a Spanish Speaking version of their highly acclaimed… [Read more…]
June 22, 2009
The July 30th PI Window on Business segment will focus on the advent of virtual conferencing, webinars and of course presentation creation and management within this evolving digital realm. As part of my research I have signed-up for numerous trial licenses, sat through countless non-related “product” demonstrations in an effort to determine which virtual solution… [Read more…]
June 21, 2009
Multi-Enterprise Business Process Platforms (MEBPPs) and Multi-Enterprise Business Applications (MEBAs) have always been interesting to me from both a practical operational standpoint as well as a technological “architecture” perspective. With the former, I have always considered MEBPPs the sustaining grace for traditional enterprise applications and the clients who remained manacled to an IT-centric view of… [Read more…]
Relational Outsourcing Seminar
June 29, 2009
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