Posts by Terry

                    SAP Standard Data Mining is a methodology using standard SAP reports and tools to drastically reduce unnecessary inventory, lower your Supply Chain Operating Costs as well as manage your capacity constraints through an improved S&OP process. There are 300 Standard SAP Reports and Lists. Why are you making your life so difficult with Customized reports? What are...

Incivility in the workplace is only getting worse. The only client I quit was because of incivility. I left the project in perfect shape. Here are a few notes from the book – Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace In the Civility in America 2016 survey, almost all respondents—95 percent—believed we have a civility problem. It wasn’t the hours spent at work or other factors like workload, decision authority, or discretion...

                  Hey, it’s brutal out there. Work has become a 24/7 affair, emails are drowning us, restructuring with layoffs is common and companies are buying back their own stock instead of investing. Same thing goes for Projects. There are many factors why projects fail, here are a few fundamental reasons. The consulting firm sold the client an overly complex solution. Always best to...

Here I go again on my own Goin’ down the only road I’ve ever known Like a drifter I was born to walk alone An’ I’ve made up my mind, I ain’t wasting no more time  – Whitesnake       I am a Project Manager. I am also a Project Manager ready for another contract! Know of one? I didn’t dream of becoming a Project Manager when I was in high school. Neither was I like Tiger Woods whose...

Find awe in your life After my short time at IBM I listed the biggest Pros and Cons of working there and I think money was number 5 on the list. Now, I worked hard to get that job and I called IBM partners in the Montreal area and asked them out for coffee, until I eventually landed a position at Big Blue. Teaching clients about the cognitive computing power of the super computer Watson, taking digital technology courses and other...