Leadership - IT and Operational

Are You an In or an Out Leader?

2009-11-30T11:16:00.000-05:00

In Leaders:

* Focus on results and deliverables
* Coach and support their people
* Build team spirit
* Offer expert knowledge or share experience
* Monitor performance/quality control
* Are present and available
* Surface and deal with conflict

Out Leaders:

* Get involved in cross-organisational initiatives
* Build networks
* Delegate extensively
* Manage their profiles and visibility
* Engage with peers inside and outside their companies
* Look after their careers
* Engage in organisational politics
* Join committees
* Attend or speak at industry conferences

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From BI to Analytics: An Evolution In How Business Gets Done

2009-11-18T10:39:00.000-05:00

By Jay Morreale, Bank of America

As the amount of data gathered and produced within an organization grows daily, users are challenged to make decisions based on this information in shorter and shorter time periods. While traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools provide valuable access to this data and offer standardized reports that translate this information into key snapshots on the state of business, they are typically narrow in their application. Business users who have questions not covered by one of these reports must either rely on IT experts to help customize another one, or cobble together their own report through spreadsheets, user supported databases or other tools at their disposal.

Over the past 10 years, the growing demand to enable a larger swath of business users to accelerate their decision-making has made one thing abundantly clear: BI as we know it is not keeping up with the rapidly evolving user demands for faster, more flexible and more user-driven decision-making tools. It’s clear there is a widening gulf between what traditional BI tools deliver and the emerging market for true analysis capabilities.
To complicate matters, vendors across the spectrum—from BI to search to business process management—are using BI and analytic terms interchangeably to describe what are actually two distinct categories. To understand how they differ and how the emergence of analytics—part and parcel of BI—has developed to address a more on-demand, decision-making enterprise, we need to look at the genesis of BI, the forebear of analytics technology.

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Core Systems: Banking

2009-11-10T15:17:00.000-05:00

By Christine Pratt

To borrow an adage from real estate professionals, it's risk, risk, risk when it comes to core banking transformation.

Given the difficulty of converting a core banking system, it is not surprising that few U.S. bank executives are reluctant to take on the potentially career-ending risk of championing such a project.

Until recently there has been no real impetus for U.S. banks to change. Today, though, forward-thinking financial services institutions are exploring options, from rip-and-replace to service-oriented architecture and middleware, software as a service, outsourcing, and process improvement.

Many in the industry believe that even though technology has made great strides in the last few years, we have reached the point of diminishing returns. They see today's choices as allowing their institutions to compete effectively and meet strategic goals for the next 20 to 30 years. For most, it's finally worth the risk.

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IT Management Lessons from Bernie Madoff | CIO - Blogs and Discussion

2009-11-06T09:50:00.002-05:00

IT Management Lessons from Bernie Madoff | CIO - Blogs and Discussion

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Bernie Madoff was a lot of things to a lot of people—a once-trusted financial advisor, a man who always beat The Street, and, as it turned out, a felonious con-man who caused thousands of his clients to lose billions in their investments.

Relationship Management

2009-11-05T08:59:00.003-05:00

Relationship Management
Relationship Management is an art form that needs to be managed like any other discipline that you practice. When it comes down to it, it is very easy not to be involved in any professional groups, networking, mentoring, social networking and volunteering but the missed opportunities of not doing it far out way the aggravation of becoming a involved.

Marketing your personal brand
What I have come to realize is that we are own personal brand and in this capitalist market we all need to embrace this to ensure greater success for own growth and advancement. With the rise of all these social media outlets the opportunities exist today that were not even conceivable a few years ago. But with this comes risk of over exposure that may be harmful for your career development. So I feel there must be a blended use of social media that lends itself to marketing your personal brand.

Why Even CIOs Need Smart Friends - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

2009-11-04T10:18:00.002-05:00

Why Even CIOs Need Smart Friends - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

1. Build a strong professional network.

2. Meet the investor community.

3. Volunteer externally.

4. Volunteer internally.

5. Find a mentor.

6. Prioritize your team relationships.

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Leveraging Agile Development Methods to Speed Development Cycles by Bank Systems & Technology

2009-11-03T10:54:00.001-05:00

Leveraging Agile Development Methods to Speed Development Cycles by Bank Systems & Technology

Many banks are struggling to adequately manage the development of critical new systems because they are using 1.0 methods and technologies to address 2.0-era problems. To stay current, financial services companies must focus on two critical areas: 1) modular application design and 2) rapid, iterative development methods. By combining these two tenets, banks can create smaller, more manageable projects that can respond and adapt to market changes rapidly. By contrast, monolithic applications and projects and the use of traditional, serial methodologies are two of the biggest contributors to ballooning project costs and missed delivery deadlines -- the root causes of today's lack of alignment between IT and business.

How to Set Up a Server on a Local Intranet | eHow.com

2009-10-31T18:39:00.000-04:00

How to Set Up a Server on a Local Intranet | eHow.com

Why CIOs and IT Need a Vacation - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

2009-10-31T18:36:00.001-04:00

Why CIOs and IT Need a Vacation - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership

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Advantages of Situational Leadership

2009-10-28T12:11:00.000-04:00

Situational leadership is the dominant theory upon which supervisory-level leadership training worldwide today is based. Groundbreaking in its suggestion that managers should adapt their style to fit the demands of the environment, situational leadership remains the undisputed leadership training model, although research has not proven its effectiveness.

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How does Fatigue Affect Health?

2009-10-26T16:36:00.000-04:00

Science strongly suggests that fatigue can have a dramatic, negative impact on health. Although scientists don't yet completely understand this process, sleep deprivation seems to derail biological mechanisms that otherwise keep the mind and body healthy.

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How to Ace an Executive-Level Job Interview

2008-03-25T15:46:00.001-04:00

You've been contacted by an executive recruiter about an opportunity to interview for a position at a successful company. The job the executive recruiter describes sounds perfect for you. You want the position so badly, you dream about it at night. To make your dream a reality, you need to ace the interview.That's easier said than done. Job interviews are one of those occasions when you just have to be perfect. You need to spin a good story out of your work experience, but your story can't be too detailed or carry on too long. You need to appear relaxed, but you can't come off as too relaxed. You need to practice your responses to typical interview questions, but in the interview, your responses can't seem rehearsed. It's like Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Everything has to be just right. And it's tricky.

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Rate Lock Advisory - Wednesday Mar. 19th

2008-03-19T15:48:00.002-04:00

Wednesday's bond market opened well in positive territory but has since given back part of those gains. The stock markets are showing losses after yesterday's huge rally. The Dow is currently down 25 points while the Nasdaq has fallen 15 points. The bond market is currently up 17/32, which should improve this morning's mortgage rates by approximately .250 of a discount point. However, if bond prices continue to slip, we may see upward revisions to rates later today.

There is no relevant economic news scheduled for release today. The Conference Board will post its Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) for February late tomorrow morning. That index attempts to measure economic activity over the next three to six months. Current forecasts are calling for a 0.3% decline, indicating that economic activity will likely slow in the coming weeks. This would be good news for the bond market and mortgage rates.

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Honda Accord Tops The List for Quality Used Cars

2008-03-19T15:35:00.002-04:00

These certified used or certified “pre-owned” (CPO) vehicles have been inspected and refurbished by the manufacturer and are backed by extended warranties. The certified used car market isn’t one that automakers can afford to ignore. According to a recent J.D. Power and Associates study, sales of certified used cars have increased 46% since 2000. Auto experts estimate that 1.6 million certified used cars are sold annually, a number equivalent to 10% of new vehicle sales. This rapid growth started when the segment emerged in the 1990s. Luxury automakers like Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Lexus, looking for ways to unload vehicles coming off lease programs, introduced the certified pre-owned programs as a way to attract the discerning buyer who wanted a luxury car but didn’t want to shell out the big bucks. Other luxury and non-luxury automakers who found themselves in similar situations began offering their versions of these programs. Smart car buyers like them, too. Now, with this best-and-worst list of certified used cars from Forbes.com, smart buyers can be even smarter about this growing market segment.

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12 Business Skills You Need To Master

2008-03-14T10:22:00.002-04:00

Developing a small business into a successful enterprise demands more than passion. Unfortunately, facts speak for themselves. Over half of new businesses fail mainly because the entrepreneur is unable to translate their passion into practical business skills. Success demands more than hard work, resilience, and expertise in your field. In order to succeed, you need to understand and to become proficient in a set of fundamental business skills.

Running a small business requires that you become a jack-of-all-trades. It is important to know early on which skills that you have and those that you will have to learn or delegate to others. When it comes to the skills that you lack, you can learn these skills over a period of time by yourself, you can hire employees who are strong in specific areas, or you can engage the help of a professional business advisor.

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GE, Wal-Mart chiefs renew ‘green’ vows

2008-03-14T08:28:00.003-04:00

GE’s Jeff Immelt and Wal-Mart’s Lee Scott fend off conservative attacks on their environmental policies.Jeff Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric (GE, Fortune 500), was getting defensive - and for good reason. “Look,” he protested, “I’ve never voted for a Democrat!” Immelt went on to insist he’s getting a bum rap. “I work for investors,” he said.Speaking Thursday at a Wall Street Journal conference on business and the environment, Immelt had come under attack for what was called a “big government” solution to climate change, namely mandatory federal regulation of greenhouse gases.Kimberley Strassel, a columnist for The Journal, criticized Immelt for taking tax subsidies for GE’s wind turbines. And the leader of a conservative think tank, the Competitive Enterprise, accused him of being insufficiently committed to free markets.Sure, that’s Jeff Immelt: Tree-hugging, pinko boss of a $173 billion industrial giant.The Journal’s first ECO:nomics conference, held this week at spectacularly beautiful seaside resort in Santa Barbara, Calif., has had its bizarre moments.A star-studded lineup of CEOs - Immelt, Lee Scott of Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500), Jim Rogers of Duke Power (DUK, Fortune 500) and Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical (DOW, Fortune 500) - all showed up to say that they are strongly committed to federal action to cap greenhouse gas emissions. They argue that restrictions will unleash entrepreneurs and big business alike to move America towards a clean-energy economy.”This is the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century,” said venture capitalist and clean-tech evangelist John Doerr.This can-do attitude was met with grumbling from conservatives who warn that federal carbon regulations will drive up energy prices for consumers. They are right, of course. But the higher prices for oil, coal and gas are exactly what’s needed, the CEOs argued, to spur innovation and reduce America’s dependence on imported oil. Besides, they said, how can the market work properly if there’s no cost for emitting greenhouse gases, which cause global warming, into the air?It was a stark reminder of how decisively the climate policy debate has shifted in the last couple of years.Today, those favoring government carbon regulation include of big business (even a few oil and auto companies), environmental groups (as expected), Republican governors like Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Charlie Crist of Florida, and the three leading U.S. presidential candidates, whose policy advisors all came to Santa Barbara to argue for a cap-and-trade system to manage a greenhouse gases.And who’s against regulation? Well, there’s the lame-duck Bush administration. The free-market think tanks like CEI. And the Journal’s editorial page, which runs the risk of becoming irrelevant if it won’t engage in the debate about how to deal intelligently with climate change. (To quote Rupert Murdoch, the Journal’s new owner: “Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can’t afford the risk of inaction.”)Climate-change legislation “is going to happen,” Immelt said, and he plans to be at the table when the law is written. “I think our country could have a great competitive edge if we don’t put our head in the sand,” he said.Immelt said GE’s EcoMagination campaign, a marketing effort built around selling products like energy-efficient jet engines and locomotives that help solve environmental problems, has driven GE’s revenues, created jobs in the United States and spruced up the company’s image.

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Forget IT-business alignment — it's all about fusion now

2008-03-13T15:25:00.001-04:00

CIOs are rethinking alignment and are looking for a deeper business sense.

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10 Ways to Get New Content for Your Website

2008-03-13T15:24:00.001-04:00

One of the biggest frustrations I see with people who are interested in earning money using a blog is content creation. The most successful blogs are ones that focus on a niche. Unfortunately writing a minimum of 50 articles a year requires lots of content. I write about 400 articles per year. Here are 10 places I go to keep new content flowing.

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Are You Losing Control of Your Business?

2008-02-21T10:08:00.002-05:00

Networks and resources for startups abound, but small companies managing expansion need help, too. No. 1 on your to-do list? Make a "stop doing" list

If you started a three-month sabbatical today, what would your business look like when you returned?

Small business owners may shudder at the thought. But entrepreneurs whose young companies are graduating from the startup stage need to move from running the show to building an organization that can sustain itself, experts say.

"CEOs in growing companies have to think about creating innovative systems that allow them to have control, but they don't have to be the one looking over the shoulder" of employees, says Dino Signore, who runs leadership programs at the Edward Lowe Foundation, a Michigan nonprofit dedicated to helping second-stage entrepreneurs, which it defines as those who head up companies with about $1 million in annual revenue that are beyond startup stage but not fully mature.

Winning with Infrastructure

Signore says business owners need to understand the changes that come with running a larger organization (BusinessWeek.com, 8/1/07). "They have to start working on their business instead of in their business," he says. While support networks and resources for startups are abundant, much less attention is paid to helping small companies manage their expansion. Edward Lowe, the entrepreneur who made kitty litter a household name when he created the Tidy Cat brand, supports these enterprises with leadership training and peer roundtables through the Lowe Foundation.

The stakes are high. Companies beyond the startup stage thrive or fail based on their organization, according to Eric Flamholtz, a management consultant and co-author of Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm.

"You ultimately win with infrastructure," says Flamholtz. "Most people think you win with markets and products. You're looking in the wrong place." He says there are some key signals that should tell companies they need to change: when many workers don't know what others are doing, for example, or when sales rise but profits stay flat.

Distressed borrowers get more aid when insolvent

2008-02-07T08:31:00.001-05:00

The news isn't good as we start the year: It isn't just the big financial companies that are suffering from their debt colds.

More than 2 million homeowners are in trouble with their debt payments. And a new study shows that more than half of homeowners who become delinquent on their loan payments ultimately go into foreclosure.

The new Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, signed into law at the tail end of December, is supposed to provide some relief to those who sell their homes short -- that is, sell for less than the mortgage amount. It is valid only for 2007, 2008 and 2009, according to Eric Smith, a spokesperson for the IRS.

EBay's New Tough Love CEO

2008-01-24T15:37:00.000-05:00

Author: Catherine Holahan

For three years, as the stock of eBay (EBAY) has slid, Chief Executive Meg Whitman has asked investors for patience. On Jan. 23, when the online auction site announced that John Donahoe would take over the top job, he had a clear message for investors: 2008 isn't going to be your year, either.

Managing eBay is one of the toughest jobs in the tech industry. The CEO at the online auction site has the daunting responsibility of trying to keep happy three vocal, and often opposing, factions: eBay's investors, shoppers, and sellers. While Whitman did a stellar job of balancing the conflicting interests for years, she struggled more recently to keep any of the groups satisfied. Buyers and sellers are trying out rival Web sites, and investors' ire has grown as the company's shares have lost half their value over the past three years. "The market is saying that they are in real big trouble," says analyst Tim Boyd of American Technology Research.

Investors Will Need Patience

Donahoe made it clear his first priority as CEO will be revitalizing eBay's core business, even at the expense of investors. He plans to slice some of the fees that eBay charges sellers on the site to draw in more users and to persuade them to offer a greater array of products. He's also planning major investments in technology, including ways that will make it easier for buyers to browse and find goods. "We need to aggressively change our product, our customer approach, and our business model," Donahoe said in his first conference call as CEO designate.

The strategy will put a damper on eBay's financial results, at least for the short term. The company says it expects revenues of $2 billion to $2.05 billion for the first quarter, below the $2.1 billion to $2.2 billion that analysts had expected. After the financials were released on Jan. 23, eBay's stock dropped 6% in post-market trading, giving up almost all of the day's gains.

Donahoe may have no choice but to rankle investors as he focuses on the long-term health of the company. EBay reported solid results for the fourth quarter, with net income rising 53%, to $531 million, while revenues increased 27%, to $2.2 billion. But much of that growth came from its newer and smaller businesses, particularly the PayPal online payment operation and the Internet calling service Skype.

Expansion Queen

The core auction and retail businesses, which account for the majority of revenue, are showing signs of weakness. The number of active users has been flat for three quarters, at 83 million. The number of new products listed on the site has inched up only 4% from a year ago. And the number of stores selling goods at fixed prices on eBay has actually declined from a year earlier, to 532,000.

Some sellers have discovered it's often easier and more efficient to sell their wares on rival sites such as Amazon.com (AMZN). Amazon's investments in technology have made it easier for buyers to find what they want from sellers. There's also more of a sense of trust among its users because Amazon stands behind most third-party transactions. On eBay, it can be extremely difficult to get your money back if you're burned by a seller or buyer. "Sellers are growing like crazy over [at Amazon]," says Scott Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor, which helps sellers manage their merchandise on eBay, Amazon, and other e-commerce channels.

Whitman's focus on expansion and profits pushed eBay's stock to its earlier heights. During her 10 years at the helm, she transformed the San Jose-based company from a simple auction site into a global e-commerce giant by pushing into foreign markets and high-growth businesses related to shopping.

Making eBay "Easier and Safer to Use"

But expansion and diversification have their limits. As Whitman looked for new opportunities, rival Web sites, particularly Amazon, made inroads into the core e-commerce business. "Competition has eroded much of the advantage that eBay once had," says Derek Brown, a research analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald. Whitman has made some of the investments that sellers and buyers want.

Late last year, eBay began rolling out new search technology in certain categories that enables shoppers to look for specific items based on relevancy and to narrow their results by color, brand, size, and other features. The site also launched a new photo-focused service that allows users essentially to window shop for things, rather than read through long descriptions beside small thumbnail images.

Donahoe will certainly benefit from those investments. But he will have to build on them to bring the old vibrancy back to eBay's marketplace. EBay plans to announce additional steps in coming weeks, including a loyalty program for sellers. In addition, Donahoe says eBay will come down hard on fraudulent sellers and offer buyers more protection. "We are going to get very aggressive about making eBay easier and safer to use," he says. "While we have made strides in these areas, we need to do much more."

Source: Business Week

A Blueprint for Strategic Leadership

2008-01-23T10:36:00.003-05:00

by Steven Wheeler, Walter McFarland, and Art Kleiner

How to build an organization in which executives will flourish.

The challenge of leadership is not what it used to be. For the past few decades — at least since the genre-defining book Leadership by historian James MacGregor Burns was published in 1978 — writers on business and society have understood that the quality of a leader’s character makes all the difference. Burns, for example, wrote that civilization depended on its “transforming” leaders — those who didn’t just solve the problems handed to them, but who helped to raise society as a whole to higher levels of motivation and morality. Other business writers picked up the theme: Corporations, as Warren Bennis put it, also needed leaders who could not just “do things right” but also “do the right thing.”

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Slide: The $500 Million Widget

2008-01-23T10:36:00.001-05:00

Author: Sarah Lacy

After cashing in big with PayPal, Max Levchin could be at it again with his social network tool. The latest funding values Slide at a half-billion

When Max Levchin started Slide, the popular tool that lets users create slide shows and other bling for social network pages, it wasn't because he felt passionately that photos needed to be surrounded by animated hearts and glitter. It was because Levchin, who co-founded and later sold PayPal, wanted to prove he could do it again—this time, generating more than the $1.5 billion PayPal fetched from eBay (EBAY) in 2002. As of Jan. 14, Levchin was about one-third of his way to his goal—at least on paper.

Valley Girl has learned that Slide has raised $50 million in a round of funding that values the company at more than $500 million. In this fourth round, the investors are not your typical Silicon Valley funding crew, either. This time, Wall Street heavyweights Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price (TROW) are getting behind so-called widgets, applications like those made by Slide that are all the rage on social networks and other sites these days. If you know Levchin at all, you know he's building Slide with an eye toward an initial share sale, not a quick flip. Engaging Wall Street names drives the point home.

No doubt the valuation will revive talk that we're in the midst of a bubble. How could a widget company be worth half a billion dollars? What is the revenue model? How could it ever make a profit on slide shows running on other people's sites? The naysayers have a point, but I've long thought Slide was a far more valuable property than the Silicon Valley masses gave it credit for.

Potentially Compelling Ad Vehicle

Widgets raise doubts in large measure because they're not bound to any one site. While sites like YouTube (GOOG) and Facebook are struggling to wring revenue from the millions of people who come to their sites, they at least can run standard banner and display advertising to buy them some time; they control their own sites. Widgets are grabbing real estate off of everyone else's pages. That's an inherently riskier proposition with far fewer ways to make money. Levchin understands that risk, having built PayPal on top of eBay. But this time, he has several eBays (BusinessWeek.com, 8/23/07)—in the form of MySpace (NWS), Facebook, Bebo, and even more niche personal blogs and sites.

For the strategy to work, Slide needs to build a jaw-droppingly huge audience—so huge that advertisers will see Slide as a way of advertising across the hottest Web sites in one move, versus advertising on each of those places. In that scenario, Slide almost becomes like a huge ad network, only one that's delivering advertising in a far more compelling way. It's not in a banner ad that people routinely tune out. It's ideally worked into a very personalized slide show of your memories.

According to comScore (SCOR) data for October, Slide ranked ninth in terms of its reach on the Web, right after Amazon.com (AMZN). Its applications had 150 million unique users, an increase of 142% over the previous year. The figures were outlined in a presentation for Slide investors that was obtained by Valley Girl.

Darwinian Fight Ahead

As much as Levchin works tirelessly to achieve his goal—believe me, he tweaks and alters his business focus constantly—Slide faces quite a different challenge from that of many Web 2.0 sites such as Digg and TechCrunch, which focus on catalyzing loyal niches. In its own way, Slide is trying to build the next Yahoo! (YHOO). This is not a safe bet. It's a big, gutsy, swing-for-the-fences play, and those typically take a lot of money. Counting this round, Slide has raised at least $75 million.

But let's get back to the question of whether Slide is worth $550 million, its evaluation including the most recent funding. At this second, the answer has to be no, by any normal valuation math. But if Levchin's plans succeed, Slide will be worth far more. And obviously, investors are paying a premium for the team. The barriers to entry for building a widget are so low it is a Darwinian fight, and Levchin thrives in that type of situation. Levchin is one of the only people I know in Silicon Valley who actually grew more intense, more hungry after the huge Web 1.0 windfall bestowed on him and PayPal co-founder Peter Theil. That's a big reason Slide is backed by some of the best investors in the Valley already, including Thiel and Vinod Khosla.

For whatever reason, Slide has never been the media darling that Digg, Facebook, YouTube, and others are. I'm betting 2008 is the year that starts to change.

Lunch with the Vice President of TheFlagOutlet.net

2008-01-08T15:37:00.000-05:00

Recently I had lunch with John Ranieri, Vice President of Sales for TheFlagOutlet.net. John recently was promoted to this role after serving as the President of East Coast Mortgage Services, where under his management the business grew exponentially. He was recruited by the TheFlagOutlet.net to grow a business portal for the parent company East Coast Flag and Banner selling various offerings of flags and banners. The business has been serving high quality products and services for the last 25 years and until recently never used the internet to sale its products.

John has first hand knowledge of sale cycles and forecasting experience, that he has developed through managing and operating a mortgage company , and now is expanding that experience with a full service e-Commerce offering. While the site is still under development John has successfully launched the TheFlagOutlet.net this past December and has a business plan in place to have the site live early first quarter 2008 and is estimating a increase in market share of 5% annually and has many plans in the pipeline that will ensure the success of this business.

I will be following this organization very closely and wish John all the success with this endeavor!!!!

2007-12-18T15:03:00.004-05:00

Social networking has taken off and many different spaces are being developed to work and play in. Such as OpenSocial, Facebook, Linkedin, and various other platforms. Businesses and individuals are looking to leverage these channels to develop and expand brands. One individual comes to mind, Scott Jones. I am amazed at the diversity and creative ability that Scott has. Scott's latest adventure in entrepreneurship is ChaCha.com.

ChaCha.com is offering the idea of ‘social searching’ which is not new but has never really taken off. I think there is a lot to improve but I am excited to see more. I would encourage others to visit this site and comment on what they see the key advantages and disadvantages are.

Something about me!

2007-12-14T16:34:00.000-05:00

This is just a brief background of who I am.
I am a results-driven Director, Information Technology, with over 11 years of industry experience. I strive to strategically manage IT from both a functional and transformational capacities while also providing tactical expertise when needed.

About this blog

2007-12-14T14:04:00.001-05:00

I have been thinking for sometime about starting a blog and finally have taken the time to start one. I work for a law firm, Kimmel & Silverman (www.lemonlaw.com), and have seen my role change dramatically over the last couple years. I have started out as a function head for the department but as time went on I have expanded this role into operations and marketing. I plan to use this blog to post career and personal development opportunities while also discussing industry trends.

I may do reviews on current technologies

Stay tuned.