Casual Friday: Two Videos

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Casual Friday: Two Videos

It’s a weird week, what with the 4th of July falling smack in the middle of it, but I’m confident the following two videos will: Be entertaining Contain moving images Whiten your teeth as we head into the weekend. Enjoy. Wes Anderson’s American Express Ad Considered to be his finest commercial. (Best line — WES:

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Happy 4th of July

My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!   — Thomas Jefferson Politics and polemics aside, America enjoys freedoms no other country can claim. Let’s think about that today, and celebrate it. We’re luckier than we know. Happy July

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‘You’ve Just Gotta Fight Your Way Through’

This quote is from Ira Glass, and it’s about working hard in creative endeavors so that your output can eventually match your ambitions, but this is worth hanging on your wall no matter what your business. If more people kept fighting, even when things are far from where they’d like, everyone would be so much

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‘Seven Minutes of Terror’

Team members share the challenges of landing Curiosity — the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL — on the surface of Mars. Suddenly, your ERP project doesn’t seem so daunting. ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.

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Recapping HIUG’s Interact 2012

The challenge of “preventive maintenance” is complicated in the healthcare market and one of the elements that was made clear to me at Interact 2012 was the distinction in healthcare between the maintenance crews for facilities (buildings and grounds) and the biomed machinery.  Folks we spoke to talked about the segregation between crews that have their

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Business Process Management

Chris Taylor over at Process Excellent Network has a piece about the damp world of  Business Process Management (BPM) gaffes that struck me as interesting. In it, Taylor riffs on his seven deadly sins of BPM, which are: Taking the word management in vain Working in process silos Reinventing the wheel Making it hard to

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The Road to Interact 2012: Keep (C)ALM and Carry On

If you’ve read our previous posts in this series, you’re up to speed (if not, here’s part 1, part 2 and part 3). You understand the risks associated with not having a strategic, coordinated and effective maintenance management program supported by an integrated software solution. You recognize the value of Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM), and

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The Road to Interact 2012: Risky Business

We’ve talked about the maintenance and operational challenges associated with successfully running a large and complex healthcare organization/facility, and we’ve talked about the exciting potential of Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategies and powerful programs like PeopleSoft ALM. “But what’s the big deal?” you might ask, “How much of a difference can a fully-integrated ALM really

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