Management Consulting

Performing an organizational-wide performance assessment

May 17, 2010

Traditionally, companies and governments perform what is known as a risk assessment, to identify the likelihood and impacts of potential vulnerabilities, threats, and dangers. While this is a worthwhile management exercises to keep the risks on management radar, it often focuses on negative events such as internal control weaknesses, security, and disasters. photo credit: yomy17 [...]

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Prerequisites for Enlightened Analysts

January 17, 2010

photo credit: kevindooley In my journey to become a better consultant, I’m reading “Now you see it: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis,” by Stephen Few. Below are a few traits he listed for a good analyst: Interested Curious Self-motivated Open-minded and flexible Imaginative Skeptical Aware of what’s worthwhile Methodical Capable of spotting patterns Analytical Synthetical [...]

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Tech Support Cheat Sheet – How I Do It

August 26, 2009

People often ask me how I know so much about computers and how I get all these things done so fast. Webcomic xkcd just figured out my trick and made a flow chart. I rarely know all the shortcuts or where the buttons are in an application, it’s a matter of poking around and just [...]

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Traveling Consultant? There’s an App for that. 10 apps for business productivity.

July 8, 2009
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There’s an app for everything. As a traveling business consultant, I rely on my iPhone more than most people. I depend on a core set of apps that help me remain productive during down times: waiting at the airport, waiting for a meeting to start, and “shhhh…” while commuting home. My upgrade to the iPhone [...]

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Using Crowd Sourcing to Improve the Issue Management Process

June 28, 2009
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While issue management is not specifically addressed by the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), it is a key process necessary for effective project management. An issue is something that requires a decision made and associated actions performed. It is a situation that has occurred or will occur, as oppose to [...]

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Simplify Your Writing to Communicate Better

June 7, 2009

A short report, presentation, letter, memo, or document is often many times as hard to write than its long counterpart. Anyone can write a 20 page report, it takes talent to condense all that information in to a one page briefing. So why do you see such poorly written documents both online and offline? The [...]

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Google Wave Will Be the Future of Communication and Collaboration

May 30, 2009
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Earlier this week, Google announced the release of their new communication tool, Google Wave. It’s already available for the select group of developers who attended the Google I/O convention. I’m going to take a chance now and say that it’s going to be big. Up until now, Google has separately released a number of powerful, [...]

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