You Have What It Takes: a Case In Point

IDEAS - The fuel of spin-offs; corporate formation, profits and for non-profits, revenue. To get there takes many turns, spins and for some out of control steering.
Let me share with you what I mean. Revenue is always not enough for non-profits, hence the interaction and common consensus to manage projects using a Project Manager and a Project Tool. Eye-opening? Yes! Especially for the many that have operated without using tools which business for profit have been using successfully for some time now.

I'm in both; one as a Consultant to Executive Leadership, where we form strategies for successful corporate business ventures and a Project Manager for the other. I see in both commonality, whereas being in only one of the two can blind you to facts which can be helpful, no matter which entity one decides to form.

Profits for business - is easily translated into a non-profit as revenue to send where and when on the projects which matter the most. Here we'll call revenue sources as donated and/or grant funding sources. You need to realize that to hold on to this revenue is the utmost of priorities. Spending it depletes your savings so to speak. Save for what? You may ask...Why, because these monies can be easily placed into a program which has potential of generating added revenues to the pot.

Thousands and thousands of non-profit money can be saved by you because all it takes is a new mind-set about those limited dollars which are not never-ending.

...And what about for profits? What should be done with cash? Many places to place cash - you need to concentrate on the cash flow(s) of each project because out of the many equals a larger liability and corporate risk. You focus on risk everyday you are open for business because playing catch-up or ignoring risks, including cash flow, employee treatment and ethical corporate behavior, can out-smart you when the attorney's finally find you behind the large corporate veil or several fronts you managed to strategically initialize when first forming your large organization.

That process of formulation is fine, but only one out of many steps taken for corporate anonymity - it has existed for fifteen years or more. We speak more of changing dynamics, like real-time data handling and processes to obtain your goals - not only do we offer the mechanizes explained above, we internalize you energy, your visionary expertise, changing strategies and ventures - we take it from there; whether it is infrastructure or building more avenues and processes; it will always be the ability to make a buck from here to there!

Practicing internal honesty, throughout corporate structures; up, down, left and right includes global ethics - even if none exist, can and will make YOU MY 'Shining Star!'

COURSE 101 & COURSE 711 VISIONS

The 101 COURSE and THE ADVANCED 711 VERSION OF BUSINESS VISIONS MADE EASY FOR YOU!!

It is that time of year for you entrepreneurs, to scout out the opportunities whether they are present in the Cities and Towns of America or in the High Hills of the High Stakes Vegas landscape, because if you don't, you may lose a wonderful opportunity.

Yes, the opportunities are there waiting just for you; the right visionary to pluck the prize from the other ungracious or over-competitive hands to deliver the nicely wrapped deliverance package to your doorsteps from several land tactical carriers at hand; they may be UPS, FedEx, or the USPS. Ungracious are those who do not see, feel, taste the whole spectrum of goodness. Let's call them - less educated or out of touch, not only with humanity but ethics. Over-competitiveness - win at all costs - damn the torpedoes; take no prisoners.

Whoa, there Cowboy - where are you going with this? Not far, from present reality lies my soul, my business soul. And my business partners' and I may have just been hit by the proverbial lightning strike - still alive and telling the tale.

Speeding through the Internet, Cities, Towns, and Information Technologies Storage Mechanics; by creating a more formative vision in which to lay-down the tactical, almost too real of a work formula - we hit the unexpected! Why? Well, it is not simplistic nor convoluted; it is basic 101. We need to step back.

Create the Business Plan.
Create the Financial Structure.
Formulate with a neutral CPA; DO NOT pick a friend and hope his or her existence into the creation which is the Universe, will help you! Better to have some professional that's out to win your business on a daily, weekly and monthly schedule. Of course, for you - this is generic, depending on your own situation.

And then, we'll sit and discuss, high and mighty - lofty and attainable 711's.

A case in Point: What is the purpose of sucking out your mind; formulating dream visions without first using the proper mechanisms which decrease greatly the opportunities for failure? Risk factor Course 711; remember it is a legal entity so we need to discuss legal terminology, financial accounting gobligoop, and business structure. Once done, we are free to carry-on with magnificent stories for success. Yes, it's the familiar round-table approach. We came prepared, so to speak!

Many do these steps - I've done them - it's called a brain-storming idea, remember? It's not wrong at all, in fact a very necessary formula to find the end, beginning and the who, what, where and when's.

God speed my friend, any friend, God speed!

Electronic Data Processing: A Case In Point

This is definitely a business topic which understands that end-users of this technology would rather not or simply cannot develop a rational thought pattern about computers in general; only to slowly, almost as if gently falling like a leaf to the ground, an acceptance that either computing is wholesome for the whole family and there is nothing terrible about computing activities or the far-side; reality pokes you in the face and says directly - you maybe suffering from group-think, blinders being on too tight, and refusing to acknowledge the underlying fact of covert data corruption, retrieval, data-mining and the notorious memory stick; the act of finding specifics.

Whether you are a casual or heavy user of a personal computer (PC-Windows or Linux) or a Mac, anyone who uses a computing device (PDA, Blackberry, tablets) are exposing themselves (private information) to the world. The applications and products available are astounding but once in a while, someone finds a way inside.

Anyone who has a history of laboratory research, spent time in a military community, or a related technical focus knows that the ground is always alive with activities that the above-ground dwellers do not or refuse to understand and accept as fact.

We live in a society where tele/cell phone tapping, Internet-web pass-through to data-mining, the passing of viral infected code to your own electronic database and email has been proficient and successful in snatching your own identity.

My government protects me - that is a surface and above-ground dwellers attitude - that's the play you went to and the play you'll leave with; fixed in your head. Is it true? Of course it's true - what about 'Liberty for All' and the Bill of Rights' - truths for the above-ground dwellers.

During the same time frame, the under-dwellers or below-ground activities never stop. They have never stopped and actually picked up steam during 1945, before and after that year. The Internet developed by the U.S. Government to pass information, is a factual, theoretical, and operational success during the Vietnam exercise and others, too plentiful to mention. The practice has grown and what you see today is a global menace for many governments - the Internet.

Back to the main topic of safe computing and the fears of electronic data processing. These topics scare me and if we as users of this technology are not mindful of their destructive power, and only left to a few.

Electronic Data Processing is 'BIG BUSINESS', alive and doing extremely well today, throughout the World. Business data is yours and I assume protected w/ redundancy appliances, circuits with different vendors, backup disaster power supplies, off-site storage and malicious code-breakers and malware.

Anyone today, can pay $25 USD and receive a frightening amount of personal data (electronic data mining - processing) on anyone in the World.
Business needs:
1. Look for Spies Within You Organization...Skeptical of resumes is a good start. Background checks are only the tip of the iceberg and meant to deceive.

2. Trust No One: Especially your executives. Most are their for fattening; their style and future dreams - not yours.

3. When someone is Found To Be Worthy: Good - but beware; moles can appear as brilliant rays of sunshine. Years of loyalty really is not the gauge. What is?

The best gauge which works is plain talk; all subjects NOT off limits, the moderate, the left of center, the center, the left of right and NOT the far-right ranting...We just don't have the time nor the collective inclination to witness another group of people, swallowing hook-line and sinker as meritorious. Can they be saved or do they want to be saved and saved from what? They can help to keep people fully aware that we are being watched through many different electronic processing devices which run the gamut of cell phones, radio frequency interception (WWII), digital scanning, eye biometrics, Internet surfing and where you go, blogs you subscribe too and a whole lot more.

The HAIR play has a line about 'electronic data processing', and it is from this enterprise concept which provides a larger view of what can and has gone wrong (EDP) that I provide this rebuttal. EDP started w/ the larger computing main frames and research will show those inclined to venture closer to the truth, startling appointments and criminal tasks upon our American Civil Liberties were committed using electronics. With today's EDB (electronic data bases), a thousand million trillion of databytes on so many subjects from moon rocks to turtles will overwhelm the uninitiated.

And so it is, a foundation and bedrock of a technology that we as business men and women must be properly engaged and educated to uncover and pin-point not only the above-ground benefits of an emerging technology but bring forth from the shadows the below-ground activities in which we so blithely misinterpret.

To drive this even further into another reality ; Remember the Pringles can of potato chips scenario? An antenna made out of an empty potato chips can which successfully received business transmissions from wireless devices in an airplane manufacturing plant. The signals went over the strong metal fences of an Everett Boeing Plant, were captured and decrypted using an off the shelf product any savvy techno geek can operate. That was sadly, for Boeing a reality and it really happened.

Entertain and be watchful for the other watchful eye in gaining a perspective, perhaps an unfolding for a better business life lays just below your horizon.

MDI vs. Process Management

During 1999 - 2000 the County of Yakima developed a process management model that was developed elsewhere which included metrics of a tested and working model with the Department of Transportation. Nevertheless, during 2006, a six or seven year period has elapsed after its initial introduction and execution in which most 'bugs' if they ever existed, should have worked themselves out of the process through constant refinement procedures. You'd think!

During the latter part of 2006, the system and process was again exercised, executed and delivered extremely poor response times, and other issues which are not really in the Mutual Design process. Other problems have arisen and not been addressed for I believe several years now.

This present situation is more like a model which develops forms of micro-management instead of building group and individual innovation and 'think out of the box' theories with working scenarios for the delivery mechanisms which include the technicians and all forms of communication including their own individual check lists which should satisfy their own command post.

During 2000 the Associative Model of Management was introduced to the same group. A contractor was paid a lucrative figure somewhere in the $250K range to deliver a model which promised system fixes, process refinement, elimination of non business redundancy and the immediate need to increase (streamline) IT production and delivery times.

About the same period, the system was not only introduced to another group somewhere in a different part of the State, but implemented with my help in a heavily predominant Microsoft supported region and district entity. This process model worked for the whole of the IT staff and became their new process model to follow, train and refine.

However, the consultant that was paid was told not to implement that design back at the County because the MDI model was a far superior system and his service was no longer needed. Sadly, many of the Associative Model for Business and Information System components that were revolutionary in terms of eliminating the practices of silo management which greatly decrease sharing of communications and information was never implemented.

As end-users to technology can reaffirm, when the support mechanism of technology is not efficient in terms of user-friendliness or plain helpful, who loses? In this case, because it is a governmental structure, the end-user loses. Loses work momentum, gains financial deficits instead of decreased costs per individual worker throughout the system. It will not take a financial management genius to figure out the metrics on this one - instead of decreased worker costs; the MDI system and its flawed process and deficient program management structure, interferes with the whole of the enterprise management model. It would never pass muster in a corporate structure focused on daily operational cost reductions.



Executives every where should be aware of these systems in their midst if a proactive vision to reduce costs, increased fixes and endless buying are out of whack! One of the tricks which work is to implement the help of astute Information Management people who understand performance management. You might also entertain applications like SAP for your enterprise functions. Rely on proven results instead of the school of marketing dollars and its endless plethora of hype.