Oct 19 2011

From $4 A Share To $404: How Apple Succeeded

I’m going to draw your attention to Time Machine. This simple innovation is exactly how Apple Computer beat the bigs. It’s how a group of guys and girls from simple beginnings got to become that American fable of building a better mousetrap, founding a company in the “garage” and going on to superstardom and independent wealth.

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Nov 28 2010

Meeting Warren Avis

In an unassuming building on State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I met
the head of the Avis Empire in 2001, the man who had built and sold Avis Rent A Car and all its innovations in the 1960s. His small staff buzzed productively from room to room as he announced, “Each worker for Avis is respected…”

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Oct 1 2010

I jumped at the chance to join eBusinessware

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you see every problem as a nail.”
–Abraham Maslow

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May 1 2009

What is Business Process Assurance?

What is Business Process Assurance?
The evolution of traditional QA or SQA to Business Process Assurance (BPA)

Back to Basics

To err is human. So it is logical to accept that every human activity in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is bound to have errors. There have been many names given to these errors - bugs, errors, issues [...]

May 1 2009

Better to reduce the bugs than to fix them

The idea of testing software reminds me of this very famous old saying “Prevention is better than cure”. The simple reason behind it is the fact that there is always high cost associated in fixing the defects. At a primary level,two things can be thought of (i) either avoid the occurrence of bugs altogether or [...]

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Mar 26 2009

The Art of Executive Status Reporting

Over the last more than 20 years of my experience in the global IT industry, one of the key challenges I have noticed is the lack of clear and concise status reporting. Executive Management of any organization is dependent on timely availability of accurate status reports to enable them to track the progress and budget [...]