http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog Ramblings on project management, process re-engineering, business improvement, and anything else that may be pertinent. Mon, 05 May 2008 12:34:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well if this is not the confirmation the world needed that we are in a recession:The drop in porn rentals and sales is worrisome on several fronts: Till now, porn has been a recession-proof business. Further, with the country already in a dispirited mood, the fact that porn has gone ... http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2008/04/25/recession-is-here/ Temporary CFO B2BCFO.com can provide your small to mid sized company with a highly qualified chief financial officer on a temporary basis from their nationwide network of CFO consultants. Check it out. http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2008/04/24/looking-for-cash/ The Biggest Business Blunders Ever is an interesting article from Forbes.com. The stories span industries from technology to real estate. Market miscalculations, short-term thinking and rotten ethics are the broad themes. Taken together, the collective devastation of these miscues in current dollar value creeps into the trillions. Then go through ... http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2008/03/12/interesting-article/ I was doing some research on why business people who read more, earn more. So I started with a Google of the term "people who read earn more." Look at some of the titles that came up: Music lessons pay off in higher earnings Do pretty people earn more? Tall people earn more Drinkers ... http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2008/02/05/earn-more/ Yeah, I know, it’s taken quite a while, but I finally got the blog working again. Changing the design and layout…it will eventually permeate throughout. It may even change again when I get proficient with WordPress. I’ll be working on it and eventually get back to a consistent writing schedule. ... http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2008/02/02/im-back/ Around Memorial Day my webhosting service provider reconfigured their servers. Ever since my blogs have been all screwed up. After working dilligently for 2 months, I think it is time to find another provider. I apologize for the lack of posts and interaction. Between work, blog and life, it has ... http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2007/07/19/apologies/ For over 8 years I kept telling my employees and my clients "It's NOT the computers, dummy!" And Kennedy Information Research has published a report that confirms what I've been doing. IT consulting firms are likely to get squeezed out as business issues become a more important component to IT ... http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2007/06/20/clients-look-to-strategy-firms-to-play-prominent-role-in-it-decisions/ Speaking of templates, check out Method 123. They provide templates for Project Managers to help you Initiate, Plan, Execute and Close projects while managing staff, customers, suppliers, change, risk and quality issues. Their Project Management Kit includes more than 50 Word and Excel documents with over 300 pages of helpful ... http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2007/05/29/speaking-of-templates/ Well if you don't use MM for project management, you should. And the Project Management JetPack has multiple templates to improve your team’s delivery of projects. Check out Mindjet.com. MindManager software has evolved over time to be a must-have application within 85 of the Fortune 100 companies to help boost ... http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2007/05/27/mindjet-mindmanager-7-coming-soon/ It's amazing to me how many people do not use technology in their organization, be it a business, a practice, non-profit or shop. It has been a decade now that websites have become mandatory to disseminate information to your potential consumers or clients. When many of these business owners were ... http://valuemanagementpartners.com/blog/2007/02/10/woe-is-you/