Charles Harris

Good data is crucial in any environment. Especially, multi-part systems that have been patched together over time. The main system feeds the downstream systems and occasionally information flows backwards. The big decision is whether or not you want downstream systems to be able to overwrite the ERP system. Throughout my career I have seen bad…[Read more]

I think this question is too open-ended for 3-4 sentences. Any type of decision making process is applicable at all levels. I may be a bit older than the average college student, but does anyone else remember those paper fortune teller toys we used to make in grade school? If not, google paper fortune teller and click on images. It was used to…[Read more]

For my area of work, swimlane diagrams are the most effective. It can be a high overview that allows non-tech people to visualize processes. This also allows us to see inefficiencies in work flow. Despite our best efforts to automate, there is a ton of manual user intervention involved. ERDs would be more useful, but that would generally be at…[Read more]

This question poses a different meaning for me. I am in my 30s and already have a career in information technologies. Information systems have become the backbone of the world. What used to be card catalogs and filing cabinets have become robust databases that can query millions of records in seconds. Analytics is a also a large part of these…[Read more]