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Data Management: Often Ignored, Always Essential

“Why didn’t this part get ordered yesterday? Who changed the setting on this field? When this happens we need to hold that person accountable!” We were trapped in another frustrating meeting, a cross-functional team searching for the root cause behind operational failures in our facility. Some items were lost in the warehouse, others were suddenly running […]

Filed Under: Adventures in ERP Tagged With: autobiography, ERPLast updated: March 2, 2016

What a Beauty! My “Hockey’s Greatest” book review

Are you looking for a memorable gift for the hockey fan in your life? I can highly recommend you check out Hockey’s Greatest, a captivating coffee-table book from Sports Illustrated featuring an introduction from NHL writer extraordinaire Michael Farber. SI was good enough to send me a review copy of this heavyweight 256-page tome, which carries […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: NHLLast updated: March 19, 2017

My review of “Nashville Predators: The Making of Smashville”

For Nashville Predators fans, there aren’t many books which delve into the history of the franchise, either at the organizational or personal level. There’s Hockey Tonk, which chronicles the early days of the team, My Toughest Faceoff, about longtime associate coach Brent Peterson and his battle with Parkinson’s Disease, and most recently former fan favorite Jordin Tootoo […]

Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Nashville Predators, NHLLast updated: November 5, 2015

The Negative Message That Leads to Positive Results

General managers in the business world are an impressive bunch of people. Masters of multiple disciplines and personal productivity, they typically rise through the ranks of their organizations due to a demonstrated ability for driving change within an operation. These are the people who get things done, and motivate organizations to get things done on a […]

Filed Under: Adventures in ERP Tagged With: autobiography, ERPLast updated: October 27, 2015

That time I had to learn a computer language older than I was

Once upon a time I enjoyed a wonderful job as a Business Systems Analyst, working in a distribution center to make changes to our Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) in order to optimize the operation one step at a time. Basically I would translate business needs into functional requirements that our programmers could meet, and over time our […]

Filed Under: Adventures in ERP Tagged With: as400, autobiography, ERP, iseries, m3, movex, programming, rpgLast updated: October 14, 2015

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