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A collection of 41 issues

New Book Review: "Amplifying Your Effectiveness"

New book review for Amplifying Your Effectiveness: Collected Essays, edited by Gerald M. Weinberg, James Bach, and Naomi Karten, Dorset House Publishing, 2000, reposted here: This book is a collection of "pre-cedings" written by 17 software consultants for a conference of the same name. In the introduction, Weinberg

New Book Review: "Buy-In"

Recently posted book review for Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead, Harvard Business Review Press, 2010, reposted here: In their preface to this book, authors Kotter and Whitehead succinctly present the challenge of implementing good ideas. The amount of

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

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: "Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships"

Recently posted book review for Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships: Leadership in Professional Services, by Ross Dawson, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005, reposted here: Well written and organized text on client relationships and the issues of dealing effectively with knowledge sharing and transfer in business. This book is a practitioner's manual

New Book Review: "Life Balance"

New book review for Life Balance: How to Convert Professional Success into Personal Happiness – Powerful Techniques for the Successful Practitioner (The Ultimate Consultant Series), by Alan Weiss, Jossey-Bass / Pfeiffer – A Wiley Imprint, 2003, reposted here: This text is part of a 7-part series by the author called "The Ultimate

The Four Laws of Consulting

Some readers might remember an earlier book review I wrote on "The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving & Getting Advice Successfully", which was originally written by Gerald M. Weinberg back in the mid-1980s. In that review, I called it "incredibly informative and entertaining", and

New Book Review: "Million Dollar Consulting"

New book review for Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice, by Alan Weiss, McGraw-Hill, 2009, reposted here: In his text "Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice", Alan Weiss concentrates on providing advice to those individuals seeking

Pro Bono: Taproot Foundation Project Manager - Part 1

My pro bono Taproot Foundation project team completed the Delivery, Assessment, and Closing phases Thursday night according to the Ernst & Young devised methodology (the current Project Management Institute equivalent is the Executing and Controlling phase combined with the Closing phase) executed for our nonprofit client in the Chicago Loop

New Book Review: "First Among Equals"

Recently posted book review for First Among Equals: How to Manage a Group of Professionals, by Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister, Free Press, 2005, reposted here: Admittedly, this reviewer does agree with some of the earlier reviews here that this book does borrow some material from other works,