Business Technology

The end of July has been pretty difficult. We’ve lost a lot of people, we’re poised to lose even more, and we aren’t replacing them fast enough. That’s okay, though. First thing Tuesday morning, one of my part-time infrastructure techs came to my office to let me know that his full-time employer [1] has outsourced [...]

It seems that I tapped into a trend with last week’s column. The general public’s interest in remotely-piloted and autonomous flying vehicles seems to be heating up. The new Boeing X-47B was the subject of the cover story of the August 2012 issue of Popular Science.[1] Clay Dillow’s piece in PopSci nicely complimented the cover [...]

Last week, we kicked around the idea of why it’s very important to hire dedicated technical support staff for any business that relies on – or, can be harmed by degradation to –commercial computer technology. The seed of the idea (no pun intended) came from an article broadcast last week on APM’s Marketplace, about modern [...]

I was driving home this last Tuesday, listening to the evening financial news on APM’s Marketplace, when a story about modern farming caught my attention. About two-thirds of the way through the story, reporter Tess Vigeland related: “… I said to my dad this spring that maybe I’d like to take a week off and [...]

I was contacted offline by an American dentist after my 20th June post “Drilling Deeper” posted. The gentleman was very polite, and agreed with some of my arguments. The one position that he took issue with struck a corresponding chord with me: In his e-mail, he said “[W]e have IT consult groups on regular retainer [...]