[6 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Life Just Got Better For iPhone/Andriod/BB Users

Blue Elephant Consulting Fans,
It has been brought to my attention that the AccPM blog’s appearance on touch-based smart phones was, shall we say, poor at best.
I think that I may have found a way to solve this problem. I’ve installed some new software that should change the Blue elephant Consulting site  into an iPhone application “looking” site, complete with Ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device.
As with all great experiments, we’re going …

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[8 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
6 Ways To Break A Negotiation Deadlock (Plus One More)

So how many times has this happened to you: there you are happily negotiating along and then all of a sudden *bang* you run into an immovable deadlock. Some issue or some condition that neither you nor the other side of the table seem to be able to see eye-to-eye on just brings everything to a screeching halt. Hmm, what’s a negotiator to do? All too often negotiators bump heads for awhile trying to convince the other side to change their minds and then give up when this turns out …

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[6 Mar 2010 | No Comment | ]
Life Just Got Better For iPhone/Andriod/BB Users

Blue Elephant Consulting Fans,
It has been brought to my attention that the AccPM blog’s appearance on touch-based smart phones was, shall we say, poor at best.
I think that I may have found a way to solve this problem. I’ve installed some new software that should change the Blue elephant Consulting site  into an iPhone application “looking” site, complete with Ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android or BlackBerry touch mobile device.
As with all great experiments, we’re going …

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[22 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Is It Time To Say Goodbye To The CIO?

So you want to be a CIO someday. Great. However, there may be a bit of a problem with your goal — the position of CIO may be going away. In fact, in about 10 years or so (is that when you are planning on seizing the reigns of IT control?) the position may look completely different from how it looks today. Hmm, a moving target. Maybe we should talk with some current CIOs to find out just what’s going on here…
Do CIOs Still …

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[22 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Dr. Jim Anderson Hosts Engineering Banquet

On Friday night, February 19th, 2010, Dr. Jim Anderson served as the Master of Ceremonies for an Engineer’s Week Banquet in Tampa, Florida. Over 400 local engineers and guests attended this event making it the largest professional engineering event held in the area.

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[8 Feb 2010 | No Comment | ]
Stop Giving Your Customers Too Many Choices — They Don’t Want Them!

As product managers, we have somehow convinced ourselves that our customers both want and need more choices when it comes to our products. This thinking has allowed us to heap on more and more choices for our customers to make: colors, pricing plans, features, etc. However, it just may be the case that the one thing that our customers really don’t want is to have to make more decisions in order to buy our products.