Professional business services as it should be.
A great intro to what to expect from recruiters. It summarizes the different job seeking types, how frequently they move jobs and the level of enticement needed. It then moves on to describe a successful recruiter/candidate interaction.
www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130805013502-15454-are-your-best-employees-ready-to-jump-ship
The value of a Business Analyst is asking “is this of value to the company?” Without someone to ensure the value of a project a project manager will take and complete what is given to them. It is often said that a Project Manager will deliver, on time, on budget and in scope, the perfect set of concrete shoes. The skillsets are complimentary as often a Business Analyst needs a project manager. Even analysis requires project management.
http://www.batimes.com/articles/the-value-of-a-high-performing-business-analyst.html
http://www.iiba.org//ba-connect/2013/oct/future-no-more-uncertain.aspx
“Google Inc. is deep into a multipronged effort to build and help run wireless networks in emerging markets as part of a plan to connect a billion or more new people to the Internet. … Providing …networks would allow Google to circumvent incumbent cable companies and wireless carriers….Google sees its revenue-generating …services as ‘inextricably linked to the infrastructure’…. Google has long been involved in public trials to prove the technology—which operates at lower frequencies than some cell networks, allowing signals to be more easily transmitted through buildings and other obstacles and across longer distances—can work. ”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323975004578503350402434918.html
The economics that drive Google to do this are the same economics that can and should drive Oil & Gas companies. The business case is that to deploy the value add services in an under-served (rural) area, you need infrastructure. And in getting that infrastructure, in the current climate, it is often cheaper to build it yourself (this presumes the company has the ability to fund the capital). The incumbent telecom companies have not changed their cost structure in many years and in the mean time the cost to build has come down. So, using the services that need to be delivered as a lever, it’s driving companies to look at the cost to build it themselves vs the cost of the incumbents. Over the 200+ telecom projects I have participated on, the payback period is often less than 3 years.
A great explanation of loyalty. As one of my primary values this article was like looking into a mirror. I have learned however that loyal people need to be very careful about whom or what they are loyal to. There is potential for abuse by those who do not understand what loyalty is.
A shocking graph; “The share of people working at home has been rising for the past few decades, as telecommuting has become more popular, but the rise hasn’t been nearly enough to make up for the earlier decline.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/07/22/204550565/how-americans-get-to-work-in-2-graphs
How do you know where you are going if you don’t know where you are? Excellent IT metrics article; provides clarity on what IT organizations can measure.
This is my first post. Since LinkedIn does not save posts, I will be cross-posting here as well. I predominantly post on economics, telecommunications, IT and investing.
