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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Reading Question: Community of Practice, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Kelly, thanks for sharing your experience. Don’t you find that while sometimes you get information from the group that is not what you really want to hear, it is more helpful than friends and family who want to offer support but just don’t know the right thing to say?
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruption of Abundance, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Vinay that is a great point about oil. The vast innovations that have come about in not only the auto industry but manufacturing and sustainable energy have blown up in the past 20 years. Innovation is not without controversy when you reference fracking, but it is innovation non the less.
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Case Question: Open Innovation, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Open Innovation, if launched properly, can have many tangible and intangible benefits for any organization. But, as shared in many of the comments, the needs to be a clear goal, measurable metrics, and participant feedback for it to realize the benefits. Many companies use employee surveys as a means for identifying internal areas of opportunity…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Reading Question: Community of Practice, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
This is why you don’t post from the iPad. Spelling corrections made in this version:
My oldest daughter was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease two years ago. As a result, my wife and I became members of CCFA (Crohn’s and Celiac Foundation of America). This group is not only focused on finding a cure for Crohn’s, but also provides a forum for discu…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Reading Question: Community of Practice, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
My oldest daughter was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease two years ago. As a result, my wife and I became members of CCFA (Crohn’s and Celiac Foundation of America). This group is not only focused on finding a cure for Crohn’s, but also provides a forum for discussion, advise counseling and consoling as well as eduction to treatment options. She…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Reading Question: Community of Practice, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Sam, you belong to one of the largest Communities of Practice my wife and I have ever belonged. Parents with older children are always willing to share similar experiences with new parents, love to give advice that will help make your life easier, and reassure you that what you are experiencing, we have all been through. They are, however, also…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Reading Question: Disruptive Change and Book Publishing, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
This question is quite timely. My sister-in-law is currently undertaking the process of self-publish a book and is wrestling with changing direction and working with a publisher. She and a co-author are recent graduates who have designed and educationally focused pop-up book that allows them to use the Art degrees as a display of their talents…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Case Question: Radiohead, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Digital music has not only had a profound impact on the music industry as a whole, but specifically in access to music on multiple levels. Records labels were afraid of the loss of control of distribution and of the artist themselves to some extent, but it has improved greatly the ability to get music to market sooner, get artists from whom they…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Case Question: Radiohead, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
LeRena, your point regarding Radioheads previous popularity is excellent. The have always marched to the beat of there own drum, so to speak and if you were to compare them to Weezer, another group of highly educated Alternative Rock musicians, they bring a deeper understanding of how to build their brand themselves instead of reliance on a…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Bruce, understanding that the contract price wins in dealing with the Government, do you think security has more to do with the decision than the resistance to BYOD? I have been in bids involving removable hard drives in copiers in the late 90’s up to highest security data erase on imaging systems recently and many of the specs I see are focused…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Bruce, we have those options, but with us it is more a lack of trust on behalf of ownership, and a means of cost control as well. There is a clear ROI, but despite the fact we provide Managed Technology Services to our clients, and our NOC personnel could handle the support, our owner does not see the benefit of investing in his own people in the…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Weekly Question #5: Complete by February 25, 2016, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Wyeth had, in their vision, a Data Warehouse that fed the ERP system. That, in conjunction with its Global initiative, were why the two items went hand in hand. If they were to integrate the ERP system from SAP successfully into global platform, then indeed the data would have to be integrated in the same fashion., They had recognized, as…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Amazon has focused their effort in twelve services, but the Infrastructure Web Service offerings are; Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, and Amazon SQS. S3 is a data back up and retrieval service, EC2 allows customers to use computing resources in the cloud, Simple DB allows for simplified look up of remote data and SQS allows developers to…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Joel, thanks for that perspective. It is interesting to see that the perception of all Microsoft services from those of us outside the IT Community, the reality may be that as a hardware / software organization that is competing with As a Service providers, they do indeed have some work to do.
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Case Question: Amazon Web Services, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Joel,
That is an interesting perspective regarding the Microsoft position in your use of AWS services. Maybe a bit harsh, but interesting none the less. My question for you is does Microsoft see Amazon, or Google for that matter, as competition in their core market segments? I would think, based on a high level view hat initially they…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Reading Question: BYOD, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
My company does not support BYOD. There a couple reasons for this and both are, in many ways, a poor reflection of the asset management capabilities we possess. We are a small, privately held organization and that brings with it a level of ownership control that limits open mindedness and trust. There are likely past instances that have brought…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Reading Question: The Cloud, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
I would explain the cloud by opening up the programs on someone’s computer that reside on the hard drive and then sharing that “in the cloud” those programs are linked to via the Internet. It allows many to access the program but also slows that access from anywhere you can log in and have Internet access. Most people are already using the cloud…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Case Question: Volkswagen – Critical Unfunded Project, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The lack of funds for the project come from, in my opinion, two directions. First, it was clear that the process was set to focus on the funding of business unit projects. Second, when you look at the chart in the case that ranks Project prioritization, Optimize the Supply Flow was ranked at the bottom. This in itself would have put the project…[Read more]
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Mike Nelson commented on the post, Case Question: Volkswagen Process Assessment, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
The new process is a vast improvement over the previous process, but it does have some drawbacks. Some of the criticisms are warranted as projects viewed as priority by the business units do not receive funding, but in some ways, those criticisms are self inflicted. In the validation of priority projects, there can be a self serving business…[Read more]
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