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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

New Book Review: "Borrowing Brilliance"

Recently posted book review for Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others, by David Kord Murray, Gotham Books (Penguin), 2009, reposted here: The assignment given to Murray by Intuit that led to this book involved coming up with new ideas and teaching

New Book Review: "Project Decisions"

Recently posted book review for Project Decisions: The Art and Science, by Lev Virine and Michael Trumper, Management Concepts, 2008, reposted here: Reading this text was a follow-up by this reviewer on reading "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?", by Patrick Leach, and "

RSNA 2010: Quality Improvement? - MRI Workflow

As posted recently, I had the opportunity to spend the day at the RSNA 2010 trade show at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago the Sunday following Thanksgiving Day. Rather than discuss statistical control as in my recent post, since the exhibit being discussed here offered no control charts, I present

RSNA 2010: Quality Improvement? - MRI Wait Time

This past Sunday I had the opportunity to spend the day at the RSNA 2010 trade show event at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago. Following my attendance at RSNA 2009, I posted some observations that I made about a p-chart (a type of statistical quality control chart) on display at

Google Analytics: 14 Months

Google Analytics was set up for this blog 14 months ago (refer to the posts I submitted over the past year to see how traffic has grown over this time period). Since the last related post 2 months ago, the number of countries of origin has increased by 10 to

Personal Reading List: 1Q2011

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2011. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others, by David Kord Murray, Gotham Books (Penguin), 2009. Bridging the Silos: Enterprise Architecture

New Book Review: "Information Systems Transformation"

Recently posted book review for Information Systems Transformation: Architecture-Driven Modernization Case Studies, by William M. Ulrich and Philip Newcomb, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010, reposted here: Since the marketplace is largely absent of texts discussing the modernization of software systems architecture, this reviewer did not know what to expect from authors William

Treadmill Maintenance: Rear Roller Replacement

While running on my Smooth Fitness 5.25 running treadmill in the early morning hours a week ago, the rear roller completely blew out. The Smooth Fitness 5.25 was replaced by the 5.45 and most recently the 5.65, so you may want to take note of this

New Book Review: "Mastering VMware vSphere 4"

Recently posted book review for Mastering VMware vSphere 4: Install and Maintain VMware vSphere 4, Create and Manage Virtual Networks, by Scott Lowe, Sybex, 2009, reposted here: In case the potential reader of this text is wondering to what extent VMware vSphere 4 is covered, the subtitles explain a majority

New Book Review: "Making EIM Work for Business"

Recently posted book review for Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business: A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset, by John Ladley, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010, reposted here: John Ladley indicates at the outset that the necessity of this text is threefold: (1) because the reader is already doing