Management (228)
To Outsource or not Outsource... That is The Question
- Monday, 18 July 2011
- Management
- Written by Marlow Atticus
With the economy still struggling, retailers continue to postpone investing in new store openings. However they are investing in new systems, upgrading existing ones, or are implementing new processes to help manage the current business more effectively. System changes or new implementations mean massive interface changes between the new systems and existing ones. Many companies hire contractors to manage this spike in IT needs where others take the opportunity to join the "cloud computing" wave and look to outsourcing processes instead of managing the change/upgrade.
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Done with 2011 - Ready for 2012
- Monday, 12 December 2011
- Management
- Written by Marlow Atticus
Well, it's another year come and gone. In a couple of weeks most companies will close out their fiscal year end. It's been an interesting year to say the least. Uncertainty around global economies being the biggest concern. However there are signs of good things that have happened during 2011, one of those being the change in mentality for companies to take a deeper look into their processes and implement several cost saving or efficiency measures to work smarter. Below I've recapped my observations -
Read more...How Is Your EDI Department Attached?
- Sunday, 13 June 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
What I thought I'd touch on today is a topic that's been discussed in the past on the site: where does the "EDI Team" belong in your organization? I have a pretty good perspective on this one, since we experienced almost the entire gamut of organizational possibilities during my tenure.
Read more...What Can Go Wrong? Anything!
- Saturday, 26 June 2010
- Management
- Written by Harold DeWayne
The Impact of a Big Project
- Friday, 02 July 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
How do you like it when the boss lets you know that the EDI team has an important piece of a big, highly visible project that may take up a lot of your time? Do you see it as a major disruption of your work, an inconvenience you'll deal with reluctantly, or as a wonderful opportunity? As someone whose team went through several, I come down firmly on the side of responding to it as a chance to not only show 'em what you've got, but to also learn a little something.
Read more...What's It Cost?
- Wednesday, 21 July 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
Here's to You!
- Tuesday, 10 August 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
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Getting Bigger and Stronger
- Wednesday, 01 September 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
Project Pitfalls
- Monday, 18 October 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
I was involved in a lot of implementations throughout my career and can truthfully say that, although almost every one was different, there's commonality across them that can be exploited. I've mentioned in the past that most of the implementation work we did at my previous employer was related to customer EDI and eProcurement/marketplace connections, but that we also supported our nearly-all-electronic supply chain as well.
Read more...Look to Your Future
- Monday, 22 November 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
Last month, I attended the Hall of Fame induction ceremony for the alumni association at my alma mater, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. My wife, Carole, was one of the inductees. It was a fine evening, with drinks, a nice dinner, and speeches from honored guests (most of which exceeded their allotted time limit). Normally, when captive in an audience, I tend to quickly zone out, daydream, think about our next vacation, or nod off. However, the first speech was pretty good, the next was very interesting, the third entertaining….. heck, every one of the first 16 until they got to Carole’s (which was the best, of course) were excellent. I never got the chance to get bored.
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