marketing
I told my friend: "Since I managed to persuade some people to use our IT solution, I think I'm kinda good at selling". He asked : "Show me how u would sell some commodities (read: not so kool stuffs) ?" I told him some points about
capabilitybuilding
it's always interesting to read something and be able to link it to your work : ) What an IT executive might do to increase his influence and contribution to the business ? Make innovation real * The keyword is "real". It's easy to talk 'bout innovation,
capabilitybuilding
I just completed the 3rd annual IT audit for some distributor. In term of the capability to keep the daily operation smooth, their IT manager got it quite right. However, whenever I talk to the people there, I usually got these complains * How come our IT system always got issues
pm
Project Management survival tips some of my tips on how to be a lil bit more effective with Project Management {http://work.plonely.com}
data
There is a saying : "Lies, damned lies and statistics". It told us how easy to read the number and how difficult to really derive something useful from it. Just want to share some simple tips about this 1. Have a right context * For example, you might read : "
thoughts
During my work as an IT manager, there are 2 kinds of customer * 1 who doesn't realize the benefit of IT * 1 who over-confident 'bout the benefit of IT For the 1st group, we need to give them some real demo, some data, some endorsement from other
Work
quote from Internet Most people approach their work in one of three ways: as a job, a career, or a calling. If you see your work as a job, you do it only for the money, you look at the clock frequently while dreaming about the weekend ahead, and you
rants
it's non-sense to just talk 'bout "leaving the company". either you leave or you stop giving the signal that "I might leave" it's non-sense to make joke 'bout "who owns the majority share". the point is people dare
listenme
The first "audio player" component I used for ListenMe is Windows Media embed object. It simply just works. I later switched to Flash-based player since it will be supported on more browsers (e.g. those on *nix). The first one is DewPlayer, which is a nice looking and
tutorial
Background * Zing Mp3 is huge, damn huge in term of song database and song submitters * ListenMe.net (my hobby music sharing website) is (slightly) less huge and I'm more or less the only song submitter * I usually upload the song I like manually, but I also want to
businessintelligence
This is a follow-up post for this one. I want to share a simple approach to implement BI in your company. What is BI ? It helps the company to aggregate data, clean-up data, and present data (provide a way for end-user to analyze and then take action upon it) For
enterprise
I'm drafting up some training slide for IT, it's about how to utilize some free web-application for enterprise Basic * Tracking issues using Redmine * Doing survey using Google Docs (Form function) * Corporate email using Google Apps * Use Wordpress to maintain simple corporate website Intermediate * Implement workflow using