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What Business Leaders Should Know About Software Projects – Part 1
This two-part series first covers identifying and avoiding the most common risks we see in business technology projects. In the next post, we outline some of the most important aspects of getting started. Understanding the major risks and how to navigate them After...
How The Role of Finance Leaders is Changing
Gone are the days when a finance professional's only concern was finance. The fact that terms like "tech stack", “low code”, and “BI” increasingly fit into the CFO lexicon perhaps marks the change and emphasizes a maturing need for finance pros at every level to keep...
The Right Way To RPA – The First Time
Almost every business has a digital landscape into which various tools and processes fit. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is like a single tree in that landscape, growing next to all the others in the forest. But nearly half of RPA projects Fail. Why? Businesses tend...
Doing Big Things With Less Tech Spend
Reaching four months into the new year, it's already inarguable looking back that 2020 was a year of massive upheaval. The Great Pause. The Interminable Isolation. It was a long, stressful, often unbelievable year, most of which for many of us was lived out on Zoom....
The Truth About Spreadsheets
Business is all about process. Process is the container inside of which everything business happens. It makes things traceable, repeatable, versioned, controlled. This is the tightly structured, schematic landscape of IT. Business applications are built, live inside...
Balancing Big Box Apps with Custom Automation
Automation is a big industry. It can be intimidating to navigate the surplus promises and claims of added efficiency, easy of use, fast adoption, boosted profits, and any number of seeming miracles offered by the automation companies vying for your attention. Some of...
Waste Not, Want Not – A Data Story
Recent times have seen dramatic changes in how essential companies must operate. The importance of technology in Solid Waste is a key example. Waste collectors have reduced headcount, but no fewer collection routes. City budgets demand efficiency and responsibility...
The Spreadsheets in the Coal Mine: What spreadsheets can tell you about your technology
Nearly one year in and we have hardly a better understanding of how the Covid-19 pandemic has and will continue to affect us - neither in the waste industry specifically nor as communities and countries in general. We do know, as essential service providers, waste...
Kids Coding as a Catalyst for Vancouver, Washington
For this months blog I am reprinting a recent editorial I wrote for the local Vancouver Business Journal. There is so much opportunity in this town! The article link is here... https://www.vbjusa.com/opinion/op-ed/coding-kids-catalyst/ Vancouver, our beloved town is...
Turning off the Start Up Screen and Animations in Excel
It's been quite some time since I have contributed to our blog but it's time to get back at it! We have also been preparing to create short videos on topics related to data and Interject so check back later. I often get questions on Microsoft Excel as we help...