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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional and President of VANTUG ) The Opportunity to Spread the Word Last week Stephen Ibaraki (blogger extraordinaire – congrats on being named one of the top 10 in Canada ) and I attended the "Global"
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Stuart R. Crawford (Calgary, AB - Business Development Manager of IT Matters) We have all heard the saying that we must have the right employees on our business bus, but have you ever thought that you need to have the right clients on the bus as well?
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional and President of VANTUG ) The Traditional Role The traditional role for most UG's has been to hold technical events to inform and educate their members, promote networking between members and perhaps to run certification
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Stuart R. Crawford (Calgary, AB - Business Development Manager of IT Matters) Many small business professionals toss and turn in the middle of the night, losing valuable hours of much needed sleep worrying about making a difficult or in reality it may
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Stuart R. Crawford (Calgary, AB - Business Development Manager of IT Matters) How many times have you heard this at a seminar or trade show? You must be present to win. Has this ever happened to you? You bow out of a seminar earlier because you
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Don Spencer (Waterloo, ON, IT Professional) What makes for a productive IT environment? What can a manager do to keep staff fully engaged in their respective projects, collaborating with one another at an optimal level, efficient and effective most of
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Stuart R. Crawford (Calgary, AB - Business Development Manager of IT Matters) The small business communities in any city across the world are normally very small, tight and communicate with each other frequently. So when I hear of competition bad
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional) Leading VANTUG I have written here several times about running User Groups and the important part that I believe that they play in the IT Community. When I took over as Leader of VANTUG a little over 6 years
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Stuart R. Crawford (Calgary, AB - Business Development Manager of IT Matters) What do you mean by Butterfly catching? Can you picture it in your mind, as the owners of your own small business consulting business, are you running around from idea
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Stuart R. Crawford (Calgary, AB - Business Development Manager of IT Matters) In today’s world of instant gratification, short attention spans and lack of patience, the one-strike approach to dealing with business is becoming a main stream
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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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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional) Keeping Things Current As already stated in part 1 the quality of the data is paramount. Keeping the resource plan up to date requires organization and discipline. The frequency for doing this may vary by project
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional) Putting It All Together From a resource planning standpoint we need to see the total demand picture into the future by discipline. The components that make up that picture are: Project backlog, ie. currently
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Stuart R. Crawford (Calgary, AB - Business Development Manager of IT Matters) 2008 will be here before you know it - are you ready with what the market will throw at you in a couple of months? With 2008 just around the corner, now is a good time to start
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