December 29, 2012 3:16 PM
Posted by: James Murray
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seattle IT consultingAs a Seattle IT Consulting company I get lots of help from the most unexpected sources. This morning I got an email telling me about this great CRM add-on. My friend knew that I was giving a talk on CRM on January 10th...
December 18, 2012 2:04 PM
Posted by: James Murray
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seattle IT consultingWhen I started my IT Career I heard this joke about developers…,
…A team of IT experts/developers are sitting together in a room bragging to each other about their skills. Then the...
December 11, 2012 11:13 AM
Posted by: James Murray
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IT Infrastructure,
It Projects,
Modern network management,
Mondern Network Architecture,
Operations rolesBack in the ‘60’s my father was an engineer working for a NASA contractor. His specialty was acoustics. At first this may seem like a strange thing for NASA to worry about. Acoustics is the...
December 11, 2012 10:44 AM
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seattle IT ServicesAs a business grows there is often a rebellion in IT departments. On the one hand, IT technicians become overworked. What I call
December 11, 2012 10:14 AM
Posted by: James Murray
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seattle IT ServicesIn working with clients between about $800,000 / year and 5 Million dollars per year, companies need to make a change. I started out as more of a
November 12, 2012 1:59 PM
Posted by: James Murray
Business continuity,
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business efficiency,
Cloud architecture,
Information Technology,
It consultant,
IT Consulting,
modern network archtictect,
modern network archtictureMost IT experts are thinking tactically. Our job as is to think about how to do things. How am I going to keep systems up and running? How am I going to fix something that failed? How am I going to do what I’m doing more...
October 8, 2012 12:57 PM
Posted by: James Murray
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Cloud,
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seattle IT consultingWorking as a Seattle business consultant
May 6, 2012 12:00 PM
Posted by: James Murray
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IT Consulting,
Modern Network ArchitectureIn technology there is an order. In business there is also an order. Business owners and technologists have one thing in common in that they tend to want to do things out of order. Business owners, CEO's and management teams in general know
May 6, 2012 11:57 AM
Posted by: James Murray
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Modern Network Architecture,
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new business ownersI find that there are a number of stages that a business will go through as it grows. The first stage is what I call enrapture. I call it enrapture because often this is the first stage in the business process. A business owner will be
