We all know the situation – you’re working on a technology project, and while it would be great to do something the “right way”, time and budget constraints force you to take a shortcut, [...]
One of the most common tasks in IT today is the creation of reports. More often than not, a skilled report developer is required for this, because reports are generally written in a reporting [...]
1. They use technology to implement and monitor business initiatives Have you ever wondered why your recent sales, marketing, or operations initiative failed to have the impact you hoped? Is it [...]
A lot of people probably have heard the IT guy in their company mention a “data warehouse” before, but exactly what is a business data warehouse? The easiest way to put it is there are [...]
In today’s work environment, we all know workers get tons of emails. However, what many managers may not realize is that their treatment of emails (which are business records after all), may [...]
When a business looks at creating an information dashboard, there are two main options: either create a custom dashboard from scratch, or purchase a 3rd party tool and design your dashboard using [...]
When computers were first installed in most major corporations, the buzz at the time was that we would then witness the dawn of “the paperless office” – an office were all information [...]
As I’ve discussed in previous posts, there are several key requirements for implementing a digital dashboard successfully in your company. In addition to displaying actionable data that has a [...]
In the last few years, we’ve noticed quite a lot of growth in the Cincinnati technology industry, which doesn’t often get mentioned in traditional media. So, this article is the first in a series [...]
As a student of human workflow systems, I was intrigued a while back to read about Chipotle’s investment of millions of dollars in new “burrito heaters” that heated the tortillas in half the time [...]
In the realm of rich internet applications, Adobe has been the leader for quite some time with their Flash platform. However, Flash has seen very little use inside of major corporations for [...]
Someone sent me a link to an interesting use of data for a hospital data visualization today – the Detroit Medical Center’s Emergency Room wait time dials. There are a few things that I [...]
In my last post, I spoke about the importance of actionable data to a business intelligence dashboard for your company. In this post, I’ll address another key aspect that’s needed for a [...]
When your company has a great deal of paper that it needs to convert into electronic form, one problem that often rears its head is how to properly index the documents so they end up in the right [...]
Is your office surrounded by stacks of paper orders, invoices, briefings, policies, and other paper documents? With today’s modern paperless filing system technology, there’s no reason to be [...]
Once your organization has implemented an electronic document storage solution (storing documents, paper images, and/or emails in a repository) what can you do with all this new-found data? [...]
A big problem that has started to occur in many “wired” organizations is data overload. Every Monday, we are flooded with reports for this financial metric, this workflow performance number, not [...]
When developing software, there are three main options you have when it comes to coding a feature. They are: Hard-coded, Parametric, or Soft-coded (this term was invented by the guy who runs the [...]
If you’ve worked around software engineers before, you probably have heard them talk about things such as “source control”, “object-oriented design”, or “Agile project management”. If [...]
