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Pork Barrel Software

If you have read any of my previous blog posts, you’ll know that I’m all about business process management and efficiency. For better or worse, I spend quite a bit of time thinking about how organizations produce work. A common framework for many businesses to produce software releases is to have both a capital projects [...]

Simplifying business processes to accomplish more

The concept of eliminating things from our lives in order to have more in life is one that I’ve seen in several self-help, personal productivity, and spiritual guides.  Michael Card wrote a song about it named Things we leave behind in which he says “It’s hard to imagine the freedom we find from the things [...]

Takeaways from eTail West Day 2

The prevalent theme in the early discussions on day 2 of eTail West was multi-channel strategy.  Seems like a no-brainer that you need to operate as ONE company. However, based on the questions from the attendees, you can see that challenges *and* opportunities exist within organizations for how to allocate revenue and control channel rivalry.

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Takeaways from eTail West Day 1

I have the opportunity and privilege to attend the eTail West conference in Palm Springs this week. This is a large industry conference for Internet retailers that provides tactical and strategic studies, networking, and salesengagements. To knowledge share with others at the event and the community at large I’m providing a few of the highlights [...]

Secure your identity with password storage software from PassPack

I finally forced myself to sit down and come up with a better management plan for password management this past week. As online identity theft grows, it’s becoming more common place for media and bloggers to write about security best practices, password protection, and other topics related to online identity. Unfortunately,  password management is one [...]