Do they realy, really want to though? There's a fairly good body of work being built up by people like John Seddon at http://www.lean-service.com/home.asp that shows how thinking from the customer's point of view, which often means getting skilled folk to answer the call quickly generally equals better service.
In case anyone thinks this is rubbish (apologies - crap in american), there's a smallish company called Toyota that started this. Apparently it's doing rather well...
ps. I've nothing to do with John's company, but I do think he's onto something
Drucker.
Go read, think and then think again.
Then go read about the Stevenson family (hint: click here)
Oh - and by the way, the geeky stuff will soon be what you do after hours.
Hacking people is much more fun, and the best challenge you'll ever get.
Alternatively:-
Add up the number of hours spent running optimisations on compiler flags, deduct actual time savings, times hourly rate and then see if it would be cheaper to add (scrounge) some more processors....
The big sources of greenhouse gasses aren't power plants so much as factories, the ones that make the things than we use to maintain our standard of living.
So having SUV's and consuming (and wasting) more resource than anyone else is a good way to keep a standard of living?
Wrong! (well almost)
You work for your customers, you report to your boss/supervisor/pointy haired fiend from hell.
Both need to be kept happy.
My experience is that meeting their real needs usually results in them being happy at the nd of the day, though you may need thick skin and a storng dose of personal integrity (spoken like a true blue corporate wage slave).
For a method and technique to help, you could do worse than look at http://www.wizoz.co.uk and the 7C's of Consulting method (I've no commercial connection, just a v. happy user). Provides a framework and some handy tools. Don't be put off by it being rooted in Sales and Marketing - it's got some big real life experiences and history behind it...
And now we have the US trying to force the EU to let Monsanto sell GM seeds and produce. Obviously a good thing - I mean, how else are our farmers going to get the wonderful benefits of GM in return for selling what's left of their individual rights...
ps - anyone else find it ironic that it was a Monsato product the farmer was using to id these crops....
How about https://www.cclondon.com/index.shtml - The central London (UK) system. Anecdotal, and personal comments are that it is taking the traffic out - but London does have a rather good public transport system that on the whole works well.
For a techie pov - a simple combination of SMS and cameras seems to be providing a good m-commerce solution.
You missed off taking the children (kids for you non English English speakers) to school. Ask any UK commuter when it gets quiet on the roads...
Oops sorry I forgot - when else do you get to take out the great big 4x4.
Ah - so that's why the US is trying to force the rest of the world to accept GM crops (http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/us_f iles_wto_gm_complaint0.html)- once all the IT jobs have been outsourced the US makes sure it the food production is beholden to US giants, and anyway, after a generation or half their farming systems will be in the state as the US...
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So they are not buying Oracle then - settling for JBoss must be a bit of a dissapointment.
Do they realy, really want to though? There's a fairly good body of work being built up by people like John Seddon at http://www.lean-service.com/home.asp that shows how thinking from the customer's point of view, which often means getting skilled folk to answer the call quickly generally equals better service. In case anyone thinks this is rubbish (apologies - crap in american), there's a smallish company called Toyota that started this. Apparently it's doing rather well... ps. I've nothing to do with John's company, but I do think he's onto something
Drucker. Go read, think and then think again. Then go read about the Stevenson family (hint: click here) Oh - and by the way, the geeky stuff will soon be what you do after hours. Hacking people is much more fun, and the best challenge you'll ever get.
Alternatively:- Add up the number of hours spent running optimisations on compiler flags, deduct actual time savings, times hourly rate and then see if it would be cheaper to add (scrounge) some more processors....
So having SUV's and consuming (and wasting) more resource than anyone else is a good way to keep a standard of living?
"..the essential concepts of the original and dense article."
I must be missing something - why does a short (2 page?) article need summarising into a mere 1 and a bit pages.
Mind you - there is always a real piece of work like TinyOS to look at.
ps. TinyOS has some real articles about it - ones with abstracts and long words. Probably needs a summary or two.
Wrong! (well almost) You work for your customers, you report to your boss/supervisor/pointy haired fiend from hell. Both need to be kept happy. My experience is that meeting their real needs usually results in them being happy at the nd of the day, though you may need thick skin and a storng dose of personal integrity (spoken like a true blue corporate wage slave). For a method and technique to help, you could do worse than look at http://www.wizoz.co.uk and the 7C's of Consulting method (I've no commercial connection, just a v. happy user). Provides a framework and some handy tools. Don't be put off by it being rooted in Sales and Marketing - it's got some big real life experiences and history behind it...
And now we have the US trying to force the EU to let Monsanto sell GM seeds and produce. Obviously a good thing - I mean, how else are our farmers going to get the wonderful benefits of GM in return for selling what's left of their individual rights...
ps - anyone else find it ironic that it was a Monsato product the farmer was using to id these crops....
How about https://www.cclondon.com/index.shtml - The central London (UK) system. Anecdotal, and personal comments are that it is taking the traffic out - but London does have a rather good public transport system that on the whole works well. For a techie pov - a simple combination of SMS and cameras seems to be providing a good m-commerce solution.
You missed off taking the children (kids for you non English English speakers) to school. Ask any UK commuter when it gets quiet on the roads... Oops sorry I forgot - when else do you get to take out the great big 4x4.
Ah - so that's why the US is trying to force the rest of the world to accept GM crops (http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/us_f iles_wto_gm_complaint0.html)- once all the IT jobs have been outsourced the US makes sure it the food production is beholden to US giants, and anyway, after a generation or half their farming systems will be in the state as the US...