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Erik Gfesser

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New Book Review: "Employees First, Customers Second"

New book review for Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down, by Vineet Nayar, Harvard Business Press, 2010, reposted here: Putting employees first is an idea with which most are probably already familiar, the idea that putting employees first will bring benefits to customers. Putting customers first is

Personal Reading List: 3Q2010

My personal reading list for July, August, and September 2010. Color Key: Special Notes, Currently Queued, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. Amplifying Your Effectiveness: Collected Essays, edited by Gerald M. Weinberg, James Bach, and Naomi Karten, Dorset House Publishing, 2000. Bridging the Silos: Enterprise Architecture for IT Architects, by

New Book Review: "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?"

Recently posted book review for Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?: An Executive's Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and to Make Better Decisions, by Patrick Leach, Probabilistic Publishing, 2010, reposted here: If all executives and managers had backgrounds in statistics, this

New Book Review: "The Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 (Revised Edition)"

Recently posted book review for The Data Model Resource Book Volume 1 (Revised Edition): A Library of Universal Data Models for all Enterprises, by Len Silverston, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001, reposted here: It is worth repeating what this reviewer indicated in his review of the second volume in

RSNA 2009: Single Source of Truth?

This is the second installment of my discussion following attendance at the RSNA 2009 trade show event at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago. The first installment discussed the faulty findings of one of the research exhibits, followed by my recommendations on how to properly construct the p-chart, a type of

Google Analytics: 7 Months

Google Analytics was set up for this blog seven months ago (see my earlier post), and the number of countries of origin is now at 51, up from 40 just two months ago. Visitors from the top 10 countries of origin came from the United States (60.2%), Canada (5.

HAPI Announcement: Version 1.0 Released

As a follow-up to my recent post, the release of HAPI 1.0 was announced via email yesterday afternoon: HAPI 1.0 is released! After a fairly long beta period, I'm excited to announce that HAPI has finally reached 1.0. Download it here! This release packs in

HAPI Announcement: Version 1.0 Beta Released

As mentioned in a previous post, following several years of consulting in healthcare, I used HAPI (HL7 Application Programming Interface) for the first time a couple years ago as part of the solution I architected for a client network of hospitals. Since this initial adoption, the open source HL7 product

New Book Review: "The Data Model Resource Book Volume 2 (Revised Edition)"

Recently posted book review for The Data Model Resource Book Volume 2 (Revised Edition): A Library of Universal Data Models by Industry Types, by Len Silverston, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2001, reposted here: Although there are quite a few positive reviews for this series of three texts by Silverston,

New Book Review: "Coders at Work"

New book review for Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, by Peter Seibel, Apress, 2009, reposted here: Despite the title, which uses the term "coder" to describe the software developer, this 600-page series of 15 interviews by Seibel is actually quite fascinating. In the words