Project Risk and the Project Progress Assessment (PPA): Keeping Your Project on the Straight and Narrow

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Project Risk and the Project Progress Assessment (PPA): Keeping Your Project on the Straight and Narrow

In our last blog about project risk, we made mention of our Project Progress Assessment Workshop which supports risk identification, management and mitigation. PeopleSoft implementations can be complex and challenging with many projects running within the core project. Ensuring that all activities, obligations, project structure and deliverables are met on time is a challenge unto

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CFO: ‘Pay Freezes Are Melting’

Good industry trend news from CFO.com: If your employees’ salaries are still frozen or reduced from where they were in the premeltdown days, your company is behind the times. A noticeable thawing is in progress, according to new research from Towers Watson. Among 381 U.S. organizations that were surveyed, only 9% have frozen salaries for

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‘Days Are Getting Shorter’

“You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 3/18/11

Know This Gmail power user?  If so, check out Smart Labels, new from Google Labs.  This is the logical extension of Gmail Priority Inbox, released last year. The iPad 2, after two and a half days of being on sale, is sold out everywhere.  (I can testify to this personally.  Over the past weekend, I

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‘PeopleSoft Is Still Going Gangbusters’

Back in January of this year Chris Kanaracus of IDG observed that PeopleSoft is still going gangbusters.  As we continue into 2011, we’ve seen a similar trend. Kanaracus notes that the current 9.1 release of PeopleSoft is being adopted at a rate four times faster than any other edition.  Pretty impressive for an application that

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The iPad 2

Apple announced the new iPad 2 right on schedule.  Typically Apple introduces product upgrades on an approximate 12 month cycle and the new iPad is no exception, coming in squarely at the 11 month marker. Upgrade highlights of the new tablet include an all-new design, evolutionary but not “marginal” improvements.  The new unit is dramatically

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11 IT Innovations for 2011

Pete Swabey over at Information Age interviewed analyst and author Vinnie Mirchandani (@dealarchitect on Twitter) and others to compile a list of 11 ideas to shape IT strategy and spending in 2011.  The ideas range from iterative (#1) to fairly revolutionary (#4, #9): 1. Use the Internet as your WAN 2. Allow staff to use

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 3/11/11

Know This Vanity Fair’s A. A. Gill has posted a downright funny (and thorough) review of L’Ami Louis in Paris, which he has decided is the worst restaurant in the world. Anthony Atala, a tissue engineer, prints a dummy (but biocompatible) kidney model onstage at TED 2011. The Reddit community interviews a 4 year old

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Beat a Computer at Something

Not liking your chances at beating Deep Blue at chess or Watson at Jeopardy?  Here’s your chance to beat a computer – which learns as it goes – in Rock-Paper-Scissors.  There are two modes, Novice and Veteran, the latter being considerably tougher because the computer draws on a historical database of known human patterns to

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