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Dr W Edwards Demings – Seven Deadly Sins

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

When Dr. W. Edwards Deming went to Japan in the early fifties, he found a nation that was largely destroyed. He shared with Japan a vision of management that helped to transform the Country into a world leader. As well as identifying 14 points he also identified 7 Deadly sins.

Lack of constancy of purpose
Emphasis [...]

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Dr. W. Edward Deming’s 14 points

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

When Dr. W. Edwards Deming went to Japan in the early fifties, he found a nation that was largely destroyed. He shared with Japan a vision of management that helped to transform the Country into a world leader.
Today in the West, we see huge corporations bankrupt and crumbling. We believe the Fourteen Points of Dr. [...]

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IBM Lotus Foundations for Small Business

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

IBM Lotus Foundations presents a real choice for Small Businesses vs Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS).
Foundations provides small businesses with an easy to use, turnkey collaboration solution. Foundations offers file storage, advanced backup and recovery, connectivity and security, collaboration and email and application services in one integrated package. Some of the things that set it [...]

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Why small businesses find IT people so inwood looking!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Article: IT standards are failing SMEs in Computer Weekly that provides a good summary as to how the IT community continues to be inwood looking.
The IT industry has many standards covering topics such as software asset management, IT service management, disaster recovery, business continuity, information security… there’s a long list of BS/ISO/IEC documents running into [...]

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ITIL Challenges – Organisational change is too hard

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Number one reason that ITIL implementations fail as cited by the The Enterprise Computing Institute .
Guess what? Organizational change is hard, and, as is the case with the process and technology pieces of ITIL implementations, it will vary greatly based on your size, structure, and culture. Are there then some common threads that will enable [...]

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Chain of custody training in Honduras

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Training a group of users in the Rain Forest to use a chain of custody system developed by UK Company Helveta.

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Mobile apps and the New Google Phone

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Some interesting information about the Google Android G1 Phone available through T Mobile. There is an on going debate as to how open this is, it being a Google initiative, however that might be a case of not seeing the wood for the trees. Reality is that this gives developers and [...]

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