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Adam Cole (B. Math, I.S.P., ITCP, PMP) My wife and two young daughters recently took a last minute trip to visit friends in North Carolina. They flew via Southwest Airlines. Southwest was the first (successful) discount airline ,
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Adam Cole (B. Math, I.S.P., ITCP, PMP) Think of these tips as insurance. They'll help you transition to your ideal job when the time comes. As I start my job search and start cranking up the networking, many of the messages from my good friend Nick Corcodilos
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Adam Cole (B. Math, I.S.P., ITCP, PMP) Be decent to other people – always. This cannot be understated. You may have a secure job today but do you know where you will be tomorrow? If you are good to others you will be rewarded when you need it. I was downsized
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Adam Cole (B. Math, I.S.P., ITCP, PMP) My previous employer and I recently parted ways. After six plus years with the same company, my personal identify had become grossly comingled with my work identify. My friends, family, and professional colleagues
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Adam Cole (Toronto, Director of Specialty Technology Solutions for McKesson Canada) Recently I talked about the value of networking. Personally I do a lot of professional networking through CIPS (the association of the Canadian IT professional). For CIPS
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Adam Cole (Toronto, Manager Applications and Development for McKesson Canada) To enhance the flavour of a dish one technique frequently used is that of reduction . Reduction is a process of boiling-off the filling but flavourless water. We live
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A few weeks ago I received an email from one of our regular guest bloggers, Adam Cole . He came across a highly impassioned debate on IT's bad reputation and how IT departments are often thought of as hindering business progress, rather than enabling
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Adam Cole (Toronto, Manager Applications and Development for McKesson Canada) Are IT professionals doomed to become relics of the past? The author of an Info-Tech Research Group survey posits that "the future of the IT professional no longer lies in acting
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Adam Cole (Toronto, Manager Applications and Development for McKesson Canada) I have always been a proponent of "the user interface is the application". (That is, it doesn't matter what is happening behind the scenes, in most cases an application is judged
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Adam Cole (Toronto, Manager Applications and Development for McKesson & National Director for CIPS) “All very complex computer programs will, at some time, fail.” I can’t help but gawk as I drive by an accident, similarly I find I have a morbid curiosity
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I have been reading Baseline magazine for three years now and to this day I still look forward to their monthly case studies. These case studies tend to focus in depth on a single problem in a single well recognized business. This level of attention to
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Here is a link to a terrific article I just read in eWeek regarding traits of the ideal IT professional: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2002881,00.asp Spoiler warning: If you don't read the entire article, the CIOs interviewed identified the following
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Many factors influence the success of a company, but none so much as its employees. Of the three Ps, People, Product, and Process, which contribute to a successful project or company, it is the caliber and composition of the staff that provides the greatest
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Adam Cole (B. Math, I.S.P., ITCP, PMP) is a well recognized healthcare IT executive. Adam has been director of McKesson’s Specialty Technology Solutions (at $100B+ McKesson is a Fortune 15 company), CTO of Phase 4 Health (a national Life Sciences company),
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I received the follow post from Adam Cole and thought that it might be interesting from an IT Manager point of view. In reading through the document that Adam provided, I found that there were several shortcuts that didn't know about and certainly made
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