After talking to many people across all different industries at the recent MicroStrategy World conference, this was my biggest takeaway: Grid is still number one for business users. The biggest challenge IT practitioners face is trying to convince business users to view their data as
I was having coffee recently with one of my team members and the coffee conversation soon became a coaching session on career progression. These conversations come up often and I have given the same advice (or variants of it) many times. I wanted to share some of it here. You need to
21 January 2015, Toronto, On – Project X Ltd announced today that is has entered into a reseller alliance agreement with New Zealand-based Theta for the promotion, sales and support of its Six Degrees enterprise planning software in Canada and the United States. Six Degrees is a
Last week we talked about Project Plans and the SDLC and touched on the waterfall model of project plans. In case you missed the first post you can read it here. This week we will talk about other project plan models… The fountain model recognizes that although some activities c
As we all know every project starts with a plan. It is crucial to have a roadmap to guide you on any endeavour that you plan to undertake. As it is said, if you don’t have a plan then you plan to fail. Of course, we need to have a plan that depicts your objectives and incorporates
Many people have criticized business and engineering schools for not teaching any courses on how to wins friends and influence people. Tom Peters and Dale Carnegie come to mind. However the key success factor for people to be successful in taking a leadership role is their abil
A great technique which can help us change our future is called future pacing. The steps are very simple but extremely powerful. Select a future outcome that you desire. Describe it in detail. Test whether you really want his outcome by asking. What will happen if outcom
I was recently asked by a person doing a PH D research project to complete a questionaire about my use of Self Help books. I realized that I have bought and read many. I think I have bought more than I have read but still I have read many on many subjects. I was asked wh
Cause of Anti-social Behavior When I exhibit anti-social behavior, I do it because I am feeling discouraged. I have low self esteem. However I am completely in control of my own self esteem. How can you say that, Jim, what about all these terrible things that happ
Ever wonder why you do the things you do? We do not learn things by reading them or by being told. We learn from life's expereinces. We develop a model about how the world is and remember things that reinforce that belief. We form most of our world view by the
