April 24, 2009 5:25 PM
Posted by: ITKE
Office politics,
ProductivitySometime in 1995 I was talking to a small business owner about the importance of the internet and how will it revolutionize the way we do business, but he thought the internet was just a new toy; people will pay with it for a while and then move on. My views were different, I told him “the...
April 19, 2009 6:09 AM
Posted by: ITKE
Office politics,
UncategorizedIf it is not broken don’t fix it
This is how things are done around here
We have been doing this for generations
This is the American way
In Rome, do what Romans do
All the above are common phrases that we are all familiar with, if you notice one thing common to all these phases is the...
February 28, 2009 3:01 PM
Posted by: ITKE
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Office politics,
Project managementIn the early days of business applications programming, there was little interaction between programmers and other IT staff with the rest of the business units. The business people didn’t understand IT and IT folks didn’t understand the business process.
Business people wanted programmers to...
November 13, 2008 11:15 AM
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UncategorizedHow long do you think before sending an angry e-mail? Composing and sending an e-mail can take only few minutes but sending the wrong e-mail can have great consequences.
In the old days of pens and papers, sending an angry letter or memo would take time, you have to sit down and compose the...