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51. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/2198970431457712612/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2016/04/skomax-celebrates-13-years-in-business.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/2198970431457712612'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/2198970431457712612'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2016/04/skomax-celebrates-13-years-in-business.html' title='SKOMAX Celebrates 13 Years in Business'/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWHc8SG2B2ZP7c6g-ynZOYElgfMJdqNowZMmVG11ZhM6xaBpa4rRZzUNpcmC0fOJ0JagReGJkEPeBFj8veUuASEaWxSXm5cVxxCYumitH6erCe-XiRkGRovW8sG4lXm_ZhBeXsHpJix21A/s72-c/aaaaaalinked.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-5605040311538224543</id><published>2016-03-29T21:08:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2016-03-29T21:08:59.619-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Alan Mariotti"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Computerworld’s 2015 Premier 100 Award"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Knowledge cubes"/><title type='text'>Alan Mariotti Bio</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
52. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXfQaCnG5xmaQpJ-7YmMEfRFv5_IfDrsd7ssMPsVNJErqsgjb3iQiI3bb2cQ6nkHeyDOSyYL2ggooFSL1h5ZRqqlO5UYkPTEwKj5J-mXsL0Wgj5DKiDGwpkGvpjBWXljv9oP4d2T6B1Du0/s1600/Alan2-bio.1jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXfQaCnG5xmaQpJ-7YmMEfRFv5_IfDrsd7ssMPsVNJErqsgjb3iQiI3bb2cQ6nkHeyDOSyYL2ggooFSL1h5ZRqqlO5UYkPTEwKj5J-mXsL0Wgj5DKiDGwpkGvpjBWXljv9oP4d2T6B1Du0/s640/Alan2-bio.1jpeg.jpg" width="494" /></a></div>
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54. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://alanmariottiresume.com/" target="_blank">LINK TO DOWNLOADABLE PDF</a></span></div>
55. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/5605040311538224543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2016/03/alan-mariotti-bio.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/5605040311538224543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/5605040311538224543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2016/03/alan-mariotti-bio.html' title='Alan Mariotti Bio'/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXfQaCnG5xmaQpJ-7YmMEfRFv5_IfDrsd7ssMPsVNJErqsgjb3iQiI3bb2cQ6nkHeyDOSyYL2ggooFSL1h5ZRqqlO5UYkPTEwKj5J-mXsL0Wgj5DKiDGwpkGvpjBWXljv9oP4d2T6B1Du0/s72-c/Alan2-bio.1jpeg.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-3712609828161302215</id><published>2015-09-14T19:54:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2015-09-14T21:36:14.632-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Knowledge cubes"/><title type='text'>Just For Fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;
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58. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-team-building-part-iii-alan-mariotti" target="_blank">Link to Original Story</a><br />
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61. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 21.3333px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="Knowledge-Cube-to-Create-Knowledge-Cubes.png" height="859px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/7fkgK9J8zRd9475B3Y773uiwe7th0W4dkPl-o-3GqlG3b5y_JqNDzl8F0keYPKpVR07RuIz5wDUiEba6ZOtDZBUBR8wa24Og6i2U6BdjqWOiwVpvPCYIYIDciHXDhgZdYQ=s1600" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="664px;" /></span></div>
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63. </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/3712609828161302215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2015/09/just-for-fun.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/3712609828161302215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/3712609828161302215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2015/09/just-for-fun.html' title='Just For Fun'/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/7fkgK9J8zRd9475B3Y773uiwe7th0W4dkPl-o-3GqlG3b5y_JqNDzl8F0keYPKpVR07RuIz5wDUiEba6ZOtDZBUBR8wa24Og6i2U6BdjqWOiwVpvPCYIYIDciHXDhgZdYQ=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-4706486850171920721</id><published>2015-09-14T19:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2015-09-16T19:19:10.430-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Art Of Team Building Part III</title><content type='html'>&lt;b id=&quot;docs-internal-guid-0ea0085f-cee9-059a-d2c7-c95c39e784d9&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
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65. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
66. <span style="background-color: yellow; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="Ice-Cube-Cubes.png" height="332" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/OHGuC5e_uak_uwJq4bPKpDLOcQYzyhHEULxdF9Njcg91GgcGg6_7OXs8yDQQgjrW9dBmMkzuMkPn5hM9RVE4eiEIR0T6_rxdpRKDViYqjn1cWt6mDZ8f2IEK5Jzdvg8ThA=s1600" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="640" /></span></div>
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69. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
70. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4587; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part III - Knowledge Cubes & The Art of Foundational Process</span></div>
71. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
72. <br />
73. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
74. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-team-building-part-i-alan-mariotti" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part I</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of The Art of Team Building, I discussed the process behind, and the importance of, understanding your team’s strengths and weaknesses.  Gathering this information is the crucial first step towards building a high-performance work team.  </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-team-building-part-ii-alan-mariotti" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part II</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> discussed establishing a culture of transparency to bond your team. Both articles utilize components of Six Sigma that gradually propagate to your team as you go through this process.</span></div>
75. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
76. <br />
77. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
78. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that you have your heat map and have established a culture of transparency, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get the team operating at maximum performance by fostering functional knowledge workers through the development of Knowledge Cubes. </span></div>
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81. <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: center;">
82. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a Knowledge Cube?</span></h2>
83. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
84. <br />
85. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
86. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think of a knowledge cube as visually similar to a Rubix Cube.  Each small cube is a function within a department, and the operations provided by the department equal a completed colored  side, or aggregate of a whole department.   When the cube is assembled, it will clearly define the functions for each of the departments and create paths for associates to have autonomous movement inside each other’s organization. These cubes are designed to foster self-determination and build their skills sets to become self-directed knowledge workers. The concept of object-oriented coding is analogous to how one uses knowledge cubes to develop an organization.  They serve to free up “brain space” by normalizing everyday processes to be more innovative.</span></div>
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89. <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: center;">
90. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Art of Foundational Process - The Basis of the Knowledge Cube</span></h2>
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92. <br />
93. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
94. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Technology organization must standardize the Art of Foundational Process. Whether making a sandwich, or negotiating a multi-billion dollar business deal, there is a process involved that must be documented for continuous improvement.</span></div>
95. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
96. <br />
97. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
98. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An assembly line is a classic example of a foundational process. Henry Ford’s system for building a vehicle is a step by step, repeatable process. As the vehicle moves along the line, another component is installed.  His foundational process laid the groundwork for the successful development of a multi-billion-dollar industry, promoting innovation and proper training of personnel.</span></div>
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100. <br />
101. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
102. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This design promotes associate growth and organizational development.  It will create a path to master every aspect of IT, including software development, Operations, Security, QA, Process, and Desktop Services.  CEOs and COOs can apply this organizational behavior from the top down in all functional areas of business, such as Human Resources, PMO, Supply Chain, and Finance.  Utilizing this approach can structure your organization to achieve </span><a href="http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Malcolm Baldrige</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> levels, renowned for the highest tier of performance excellence.  Foundational process lays the groundwork for creation of knowledge cubes that will standardize operational agility.</span></div>
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110. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Organizational Evolution Through Knowledge Cubes</span></h2>
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114. <table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="205"></col><col width="563"></col></colgroup><tbody>
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116. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="disassembled cube.jpg" height="127px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NkkLWYJ3BYoOajMiHgqSKVEaFWEt_oktX8noeu9-n2oaUxeEgfhWMbIAEnIFEHHFMOvMOzgbL0XYvO3pgLpowt9o5mdc0FZRlxu_kuJhrI4ppz722wgAYfuPDo_z-gjVFDINxL4" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="170px;" /></span></div>
117. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
118. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illustration 0 - Chaos in pieces</span></div>
119. </td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
120. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The organization has no form, and nothing but chaos exists.  You will have disparate teams that do not operate as one.  There is no sharing of knowledge, and everyone is stuck in their areas of expertise, causing </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">single points of failure</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.  Morale is low, while frustration is high.  Team members are in a groundhog day state, and are looking for a better way. </span></div>
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133. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="rubix_unsolved.jpg" height="164px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/JukfkSYj10WnBh3kP4FqnW89wq-JxK_JVjPvjUeEvxzRmpyEqs63aOX-RMnqVosM7Pls_rNVLXucpjcGHRccYQCgRrIP4-njksNwsaN-YFl-FFhKBBus-zH-Np--2_s7ANJL6XI" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="164px;" /></span></div>
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135. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illustration 1 - Organized Chaos</span></div>
136. </td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
137. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A leader assembles his team, and begins to take the chaos of dispersed  workflow and knowledge and structure it.  Teams start to get excited when they see the information, but may not understand how or why it’s coming together.  </span></div>
138. <br />
139. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
140. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Article Zero</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> represents the least common denominator.  It establishes the foundation for your team to build effective knowledge cube articles.  Create your Article Zero, and it will serve as your template that any person on your team can use to execute.  An effective knowledge cube is accompanied with a flowchart on the exact way to execute the action.</span></div>
141. </td></tr>
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143. </div>
144. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
145. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
146. <hr />
147. <br />
148. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
149. <br />
150. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;">
151. <table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="204"></col><col width="564"></col></colgroup><tbody>
152. <tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
153. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="department-AB.png" height="99px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/ciHD653fZAIeye9YMNmWf0Oo4__KXtQrR3F9lhzkSaPnY4rLVhp9jN6gDfPfWXoh5blK2KV_MnfRlwmdzKZTAT12z2CzE0HeUiyjBUpGw_65xo5xAuDDgqCmmeJq5jK9gQ=s1600" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="190px;" /></span></div>
154. <br />
155. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
156. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illustration 2 - Introduction of KC Process (baby steps) - lowest hanging fruit</span></div>
157. </td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
158. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each individual square represents an activity area a group provides to an organization. The visual representation of the process is designed with simple polygons that transcend technical language barriers.  Accompanying the flow chart is the writer’s step by step directions that lay out the article in its most basic form.  </span></div>
159. <br />
160. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
161. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each square is self-policing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.  Since each article is a repeatable process, when the steps cease to work, one can go back to revise the process.  This keeps each article relevant through continuous improvement.</span></div>
162. </td></tr>
163. </tbody></table>
164. </div>
165. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
166. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
167. <hr />
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169. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
170. <br />
171. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;">
172. <table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="205"></col><col width="563"></col></colgroup><tbody>
173. <tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
174. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="KCTRAININGMATRIX.png" height="61px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/RViw7JTzRiXMuItog3DLPzdGSE4rRneGD24R4UFtx7Emmyidkum3m12_xPfBvtne30NNyxvMIl9VoyTZuDEoWZx5eWqjpPO55sPmZ6uh2NRMPhNVwebOxw6vQ7LCKuUvd_BQ-Q0" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: 3px solid #000000; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="169px;" /></span></div>
175. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
176. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illustration 3 - Tracking & Metrics</span></div>
177. </td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
178. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create and place a knowledge cube training matrix in public view for everyone to see.  This will create an air of friendly competition, empowerment, and autonomy.  The cubes actually became a vehicle to drive accountability and competition . It innately makes people elevate because their peers are doing it. Everyone will take on a “leave no man behind” mentality. These transfers of knowledge can lead to increased associate morale, and will benefit work-life balance.</span></div>
179. </td></tr>
180. </tbody></table>
181. </div>
182. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
183. <br />
184. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
185. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
186. <hr />
187. <br />
188. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
189. <br />
190. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;">
191. <table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="206"></col><col width="562"></col></colgroup><tbody>
192. <tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
193. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illustration 4 - Assemble the group</span><img alt="Rubix_complete.jpg" height="156px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/fezyRFycDup3KM4H6SOAAlDBqY2r1Wsls0Zt-yQZaMRS5pv95UmK57AsIB9uvGZqXmw72IX2215qtCWmpRB2W9PzHGp-Q7K0sSNT0OTDgrkupF4ifBQPUKuwccX02kjHhFs9h5c" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="156px;" /></div>
194. </td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
195. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An assembled cube for the group can represent a subset of a department.  For example, in a Supply-Chain organization, this assembled cube would can consist of squares from Logistics, Procurement, and Vendor Management.  The cube, or subsets of the cube can then be shared outside of the department to align on corporate-wide initiatives that require collaboration.  </span></div>
196. <br />
197. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
198. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your knowledge cube program will never end, as the organization is constantly changing.  Executive leadership must drive a culture of continuous improvement, while the managers work to propel the program forward.</span></div>
199. </td></tr>
200. </tbody></table>
201. </div>
202. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
203. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
204. <hr />
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206. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
207. <br />
208. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;">
209. <table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="413"></col><col width="355"></col></colgroup><tbody>
210. <tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
211. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="3-6-9-damned-good-time.png" height="152px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/F-ah_IndpkeTx9rgO9yZuv87j9yYV1T5krdndNXp2BpBrK_ba158evXMCU0l3PbG7nN1vMwn_D0-8vUIGZd_VitChy6cT1klH72KBdEsv55WVtyZ8YsBX6H8jsLxJMSy=s1600" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="342px;" /></span></div>
212. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
213. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illustration 5 - Assemble the Organization</span></div>
214. </td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
215. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the program propagates across the company, the cubes develop a form.  Teams begin to communicate and collaborate as knowledge is shared.  Single points of failure are eradicated from your environment.</span></div>
216. <br />
217. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
218. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morale increases as team members become functional knowledge workers, and the organization evolves to an autonomous state.</span></div>
219. </td></tr>
220. </tbody></table>
221. </div>
222. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
223. <br />
224. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
225. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
226. <hr />
227. <br />
228. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
229. <br />
230. <div dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;">
231. <table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="205"></col><col width="563"></col></colgroup><tbody>
232. <tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
233. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="CUBEASSEMLY.png" height="84px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hEvoOVJLdyCYEZI1Zow3pLC5UkY_mvuGvkVRUTo3K2O-Wm92epK2YIDNGXDZnXRs2qB3bWh7Z0tE1r7UmyTb61fS2FIHjq4Ye2XB4ADtcLQmKNSesLnc2GwLIBLeEt-hBtObV_A" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="170px;" /></span></div>
234. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
235. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illustration 6 - Goal State</span></div>
236. </td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 0px; border-left: solid #000000 0px; border-right: solid #000000 0px; border-top: solid #000000 0px; padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
237. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once Foundational Process is implemented in an department, the knowledge cubes can then be shared inside and outside of the organization.  Standardization of processes across the company will reap countless benefits.  </span></div>
238. </td></tr>
239. </tbody></table>
240. </div>
241. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
242. <br />
243. <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: justify;">
244. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><hr />
245. </span></h2>
246. <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: center;">
247. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alignment, Camaraderie, and Standardization of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">YOUR </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Operations</span></h2>
248. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
249. <br />
250. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
251. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Documentation of all processes for the individual cubes is critical for standardizing an operation.  Once knowledge articles and processes are documented, an organization gains many benefits:</span></div>
252. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
253. <br />
254. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
255. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Department</span></div>
256. <ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
257. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
258. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It visually puts everyone on the same page as to how each process operates</span></div>
259. </li>
260. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
261. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clearly defined roles and responsibilities for a given task</span></div>
262. </li>
263. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
264. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The learning curve is reduced for new associates entering the department</span></div>
265. </li>
266. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
267. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Efficiency is gained from the analysis and streamlining of existing procedures</span></div>
268. </li>
269. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
270. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It standardizes the process with which your operations run</span></div>
271. </li>
272. </ul>
273. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
274. <br />
275. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
276. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A great example of this: say your business is experiencing large amounts of down time due to  a persistent system outage.  A leader would assemble the team to draw info graphics, as-is process maps and the group image of the future state while discussing key areas of concentration.  They should focus on a reiterative process that concentrates on people and execution, followed by a technical approach, and finally change control mechanisms.   Knowledge cubes would be created and modified for continuous improvement throughout the exercise. Over multiple iterations, one can observe up to 95% reduction in outages and defects, saving the company millions in downtime.  All this is achievable through the application of a knowledge cube program.</span></div>
277. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
278. <br />
279. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
280. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is a significant social factor within this process that is a key to its success.  Writing up a knowledge cube for the sake of doing so simply isn’t enough.  Leaders must encourage cross-department communication as well. If a team member who works in Department A cross-trains with a knowledge cube from Department B, merely completing the cube to gain a small piece of knowledge defeats the overall purpose.  The team member must make time to interact with the subject matter expert (SME).  This builds camaraderie, opens additional channels of communication, and allows both the mentor and mentee to learn more about each other both professionally and personally.  These interactions are a small part of the whole that builds high-performing teams. </span></div>
281. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
282. <br />
283. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
284. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When properly implemented, knowledge cubes cross-train teams on industry best practices.  It can also teach the particulars of how those standards are applied and customized inside your organization. Knowledge cubes benefit internally in that team members can move between departments with the ability to hit the ground running. The inherent organizational agility offered by this process can save companies thousands of dollars in third party training costs, as all the training material is being developed in-house.  </span></div>
285. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
286. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.  </span></div>
287. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
288. <br />
289. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
290. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
291. <hr />
292. <br />
293. <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: center;">
294. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Implement the program - Knowledge Cubes In Action</span></h2>
295. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
296. <br />
297. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
298. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every successful integration requires key components that include executive sponsorship, proper communication, and change management.  Installing a knowledge cube program into your organization is no different.  Once the executive has communicated the 5 W’s (who, what, where, when, why) of the program and generated an air of excitement, the management team must rally their group to drive the program, and maintain its excitement and relevance.</span></div>
299. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
300. <br />
301. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
302. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knowledge cubes are a push/pull.  At some point, a knowledge worker will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) who contributes to the departmental and organizational cube (push), and at other times they, will be the ones acquiring the knowledge (pull).</span></div>
303. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
304. <br />
305. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
306. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Train the team on how to PUSH:</span></div>
307. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
308. <br />
309. <ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
310. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
311. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use the “Knowledge cube on how to create a knowledge cube” above to train your teams on how to build cubes.</span></div>
312. </li>
313. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
314. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a standardized template for the documentation.  This will ensure that every document is created and looks/feels the same.  This will make the process repeatable.</span></div>
315. </li>
316. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
317. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Implement a bounty program that rewards your top performers who create the most </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">relevant </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">articles</span></div>
318. </li>
319. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
320. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keep it simple!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">  If the process for creating the documentation, storing it, and accessing the articles is too difficult or cumbersome, your adoption rate will plummet.</span></div>
321. </li>
322. </ol>
323. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
324. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
325. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
326. <br />
327. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
328. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Train the team on how to PULL:</span></div>
329. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
330. <br />
331. <ol style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
332. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
333. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A person chooses an item on the cube training matrix. An associate may desire to expand their functional knowledge cube to master a specific subject matter. Or a leader may might want to grow someone to an area that might not have enough of a specific skillset. </span></div>
334. </li>
335. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
336. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact the SME who created the article to establish initial contact for mentoring</span></div>
337. </li>
338. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
339. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Execute and learn the article.  This is done by either observing the SME, or by the SME guiding the mentee through the process repeatedly.</span></div>
340. </li>
341. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
342. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Take the associated quiz;  the passing grade is tracked in the cross training matrix.</span></div>
343. </li>
344. </ol>
345. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
346. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
347. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
348. <br />
349. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
350. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
351. <hr />
352. <br />
353. <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: center;">
354. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summing Up the Cube</span></h2>
355. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
356. <br />
357. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
358. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a world where companies are achieving more work with fewer employees, creating a culture of employees who can become multi-purpose or “Swiss army knives” will yield you positive results not only from a developmental psychology perspective, but from a performance perspective as well. When the process is used effectively, career progression occurs at a rapid pace, and the benefits reaped by the company are bountiful.</span></div>
359. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
360. <br />
361. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
362. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some of the most gratifying moments in my personal career occur when witnessing the expedient growth and elevation of  numerous individuals who have mastered the cubes.  Seeing them now as Directors and Executives of Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries speaks volumes to the process and the impact it can have on an individual. </span></div>
363. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
364. <br />
365. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
366. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can dance while your knowledge is growing”</span></div>
367. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
368. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The WHO - Another Tricky Day</span></div>
369. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
370. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Conversely to the Lyrics -- You CAN always get it when really want it)</span></div>
371. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
372. <br />
373. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
374. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the 1600’s Philosopher Francis Bacon said “knowledge is power”. Today I say knowledge cubes are powerful!</span></div>
375. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><br />
376. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
377. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
378. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
379. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
380. <hr />
381. <br />
382. <h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt; text-align: center;">
383. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 17.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just for fun… Here’s a Knowledge Cube on How to Create a Knowledge Cube!</span></h2>
384. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
385. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
386. <hr />
387. <br />
388. <br />
389. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
390. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 21.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="Knowledge-Cube-to-Create-Knowledge-Cubes.png" height="859px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/7fkgK9J8zRd9475B3Y773uiwe7th0W4dkPl-o-3GqlG3b5y_JqNDzl8F0keYPKpVR07RuIz5wDUiEba6ZOtDZBUBR8wa24Og6i2U6BdjqWOiwVpvPCYIYIDciHXDhgZdYQ=s1600" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="664px;" /></span></div>
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392. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 21.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;//platform.linkedin.com/in.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;in/share&quot; data-counter=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/4706486850171920721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-art-of-team-building-part-iii.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/4706486850171920721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/4706486850171920721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-art-of-team-building-part-iii.html' title='The Art Of Team Building Part III'/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/OHGuC5e_uak_uwJq4bPKpDLOcQYzyhHEULxdF9Njcg91GgcGg6_7OXs8yDQQgjrW9dBmMkzuMkPn5hM9RVE4eiEIR0T6_rxdpRKDViYqjn1cWt6mDZ8f2IEK5Jzdvg8ThA=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-1117272875036366102</id><published>2015-08-22T21:57:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2015-08-22T21:57:57.206-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Art of Team Building - Part II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;article-content&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
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395. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Part II - Creating Collaboration, Trust, and Transparency</strong></div>
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397. In Part I of The Art of Team Building (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/art-team-building-part-i-alan-mariotti" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">link to article)</a>, I discussed a component of the process behind, and the importance of, understanding your team’s strengths and weaknesses. Gathering this information is the crucial first step towards building a high-performance work team. The second phase of the process is establishing building bonds between you and your team, and as well as with each other.</div>
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399. In order for a leader to foster collaboration, they must first galvanize a team through trust, transparency, and honesty.  </div>
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401. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Leadership by Loyalty, Unification through Transparency</strong></div>
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403. To establish loyalty, the leader must give it. Implicitly.  This absolute must exist,  because any deviation inverts the entire equation.  Loyalty is not necessarily reciprocal in nature, but it is hoped for and ultimately gained, as you will not be trusted out of the gate. You will have to produce results in order to attain their trust. To facilitate results, a leader must envision and forecast a series of events that will occur over the course of a project and the working relationship, and communicate those expectations to their team. From there, the leader must then establish a hierarchy of goals that vary in complexity. These goals will serve to deliver on the expectations and drive the team to succeed, inherently making the leaders’ “predictions” come true. The easier goals serve as low-hanging fruit and will establish the foundation of your credibility with the team. The more difficult goals will solidify the trust your team will gain in you as you continue to deliver at all levels. If you think of trust as a hub-and-spoke, the leader initially acts the hub of trust to the rest of the team. Over time, the trust organically spreads throughout the rest of the group, bringing them closer together to promote collaboration and high-performance.</div>
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405. Transparency is the paramount trait that will help strengthen and unite your team. Operating in this space ensures that your team sees and knows everything happening in your area. It unites everyone in that there are no secrets, no “favorites” between team members, and gives everyone an identical view of the playing field. Since your group can see the same field in very different ways, it is through transparency that you empower them to provide their intellectual interpretation of situations based on their unique view. The individual insights provided will come from your heat maps that you discovered from Part I of this blog series, are the ground floor for establishing a collaborative environment.  </div>
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407. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Transparent Team in Action - The Jam Session</strong></div>
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409. Trust, loyalty and transparency together create a workspace that will be the breeding ground for a great team bonding experience: Visualize a room that has its own feel, where each team member can play his or her favorite musical artists while working on colorful, compelling process maps. There are process maps hanging on the walls of this room that are  used as “reusable code”, containing all the ingredients to reduce the cycle time needed to create present and future states. The collaborative brainstorming sessions that take place in this room become legendary for rapid deployment of ideas.</div>
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411. The group assembles, loads up a process or infograph work in progress, and someone plays their favorite musical genre while thought capital is exchanged. Each team member takes a turn selecting his or her favorite music. But the inclusion of music in this collaborative workspace goes beyond mere enjoyment. Music provides intimate insights about each team member, revealing additional depth to the personality.</div>
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413. Building this community of “jam sessions” with the team huddled around becomes the norm.  A “forget what you know” approach is established,  and the team works to create the vision for the organization through the architecture of its future state.  In this creative, open and collaborative think tank, born of transparency and trust,  ideas will seem to flow into a state of synchronicity.  Over time, alliances will form among your players, alliances so deep that you may notice the team begins to finish each other’s thoughts.</div>
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415. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trust = Safety = Advanced Collaboration</strong></div>
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417. During these brainstorm sessions, the entire group has the security to safely observe and experience the full range of human interactions and  emotions, negative and positive behaviors (jealousy, blaming/accountability, sycophancy, etc.).  Your expertly crafted think-tank environment sets the stage for productive, organic discussions to bring these behaviors to the surface, and more importantly, to move interpersonal issues toward quick resolutions.  Within the realm of the team whose hierarchy is established on a foundation of trust and transparency, the “Alpha-dog” position rotates naturally and without conflict,  based on the subject matter at hand, creating a state of equality.  </div>
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419. The team must not remain on middle ground with each other or the team as a whole. They must get psychologically naked by revealing their strengths, weaknesses, and insecurities with each other.  Doing this sets a clean slate.  Creating opportunities to air differences, sometimes even forcing such airing to occur, is the foundation for relationship building. Placing the individuals in a game of choice with each other on an opposing matter or behavior trait will bring about the free will to choose the negative or positive outcome together.  This will produce the first team challenge, and will be the flash point where trust and loyalty are established.</div>
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423. An example of this is an individual who constantly bickers with a teammate. Place them in a “safe” environment without fear of repercussions with leader moderation and let them go at it. The leader can study the manipulations of each side and assist in driving the anger or disagreement to the least common denominator. Once you uncover the heart of the matter you can usually decipher cause and effect. There is a less than one-percent chance that you will have a situation that is truly beyond repair. Even those, with time can be addressed through a similar exercise in a group setting. The individuals must choose where they stand; the diffusion creates an automatic bond, and the group gravitates toward a more definitive level of understanding.  </div>
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425. A group that can resolve differences “within the family” will reduce human resource-related issues by relying on their strong relationships.  This advanced conflict resolution process is one of the most valuable assets your organization will gain by laying the groundwork of trust and transparency, in your effort to cultivate a truly collaborative team.</div>
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429. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="underline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">In future blog entries for this 4 part series the remaining topics will be covered:</span></strong></div>
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431. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Part III - Knowledge Cubes & The Art of Foundational Process</strong></div>
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433. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Part IV - Autonomy - Fostering Self Determination - The Utopia of Team Building</strong></div>
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451. <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Art of Team Building is a <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">four part</strong> series that details my methodical approach to creating and building teams that operate at a high level.  This methodology uses Six Sigma at its foundation, and has served as a recipe for success to transcend all organizations regardless of business type or function.   I hope you enjoy the read as much as I’ve enjoyed documenting the process....</em></div>
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455. Throughout my career as a technologist, I have developed and come to rely on a suite of processes that I execute in each new engagement with a company. The first of these processes, Precision Team Building (PTB), is key to the human capital component that helps to identify a team’s strengths and weaknesses.   While you can’t force chemistry, you can most assuredly foster an environment to increase the likelihood dramatically by using the Precision Team Building process.</div>
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457. Producing output similar to the Myers Briggs personality test,  the results of this process prove even more valuable to team leaders due to the specific tailoring to the task at hand. PTB involves asking team members to complete a two-part survey/questionnaire about their proficiencies and experiences across various functions of IT.  The first poll is fairly short, and takes approximately  15-30 minutes to complete.  The second version of the poll is longer, more granular and provides a holistic view into the core of your IT team.  This second series of questions can take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour.</div>
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459. The motive of the surveys is multi-faceted.  The results provide psychological and sociological data that help develop the blueprint that will be used to build the team. The sum of the whole of any department reveals a distinct personality as a whole unto itself. The blueprint also allows for the handling of low-hanging fruit during the development and execution of the long-term plan and vision for the team. The psychographics created will serve as a general predictor, which forecasts future performance, loyalty, and operating effectiveness.</div>
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461. The goal of the human resource phase of the survey is to analyze the data generated and gauges the “state of the union” as it relates to the technological strengths and weaknesses of the team.  By heat mapping the results, technical areas can be identified that need strengthening through cross training or by purchasing the necessary education for the team to align with the business’ needs.  Heat mapping also provides insight to employees who have  specialized areas of expertise that do not exist within the rest of the team.  These subject matter experts are an organization’s single point of failure.  If something happens to them, the knowledge contained in their brain could be lost.  While some may consider this job security, it can also be seen as an inherent risk to both the employee and the organization they work for.  For the employee, there is a risk of work-life imbalance, burnout, and inhibiting their ability to grow due to the need for constant focus on the specific area of expertise.  For the organization, there is the obvious single point of failure problem, but more important is the fact that because no other team members are cross-trained, the rest of the team suffers.</div>
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463. It is a leader’s responsibility to identify the “tribal knowledge” and ensure its documentation and dissemination across the rest of the IT organization through cross training and knowledge cube creation.  </div>
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465. The output generated by the question and answer exercise can glean significant psychosocial <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong>data from the group that will assist not only in helping you understand the current state of the team, but will also help you identify your top performers.  When executing the survey, ask your leaders to gather 100% participation from their team.  There are obviously extenuating circumstances that could delay the completion of a survey that must be taken into account, but as a general rule, the longer it takes to get 100% participation, the more challenges you will have in assembling your team.</div>
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467. There are several data points to consider here during this phase of the analysis:</div>
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469. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The “When” is as important as the “What”</em></strong></h3>
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471. Timely participation can provide you with great insight into your team as a whole, as well as the individual contributors.  As the delta of time increases to gather the results, the amount of time required to prepare the team for the next phase grows in parallel.  Whether a team member completes the survey or not, you will be able to gather information on the current leader and the team as a collective  Some of the data includes:</div>
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475. <li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">level of respect for their manager</li>
476. <li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">morale of the individual</li>
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478. </ul>
479. <h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 8px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
480. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Participation will only be as strong as your leaders.</strong></h3>
481. <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
482. This phase of the process also allows one to observe their leaders in action.  As they work to get their teams to participate and focus on the action to complete the questionnaire, you have an opportunity to observe your leader’s ability to:</div>
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484. <li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">communicate, both orally as well as written, with their team</li>
485. <li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">produce results from a simple task</li>
486. <li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">rally the team towards a common goal</li>
487. <li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">garner the support of other leaders in the IT organization</li>
488. </ul>
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490. At the end of this phase of the process, the information you gathered will reap many benefits.  This phase naturally encourages the cream to rise to the top; your top performers with the best attitudes and drive for success will present themselves plainly to you.  You will have a detailed map of each team member’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as that of the organization as a whole.  Your natural leaders will rise as well; you will have an understanding of each leader’s span of influence and level of respect inside of the organization, and that influence will assist you in uniting the team under a common flag.</div>
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492. Now that you have your map, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get the team operating at maximum performance.</div>
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496. <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If the team understands the individual, the individual will also understand themselves as a team.</em></div>
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498. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="underline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">In future blog releases the following topics will be covered:</span></strong></div>
499. <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
500. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Part II - Collaboration, Trust, and Transparency</strong></div>
501. <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
502. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Part III - Knowledge Cubes & The Art of Foundational Process</strong></div>
503. <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
504. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Part IV - Autonomy - Fostering Self Determination - The Utopia of Team Building</strong></div>
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526. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iET_TAJNy7v4JxnhUGJCrDkCDfjMdD4pnn1SS01U2jQxU0FriwVwBFste1DhdJvsO9NX8kYt72R3K1g5YD_ZtaK6zeIEzY-cYnVAdxUCq0JDOXwwWX1H7VgdxEMJD2qAeggRatE" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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529. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
530. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 37.33333333333333px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fostering Innovation in Retail With Google for Work</span></div>
531. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
532. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a study of Chico’s FAS by PwC</span></div>
533. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
534. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Rrumr_OT2hY1_TOF8KNPMqhKieWnC_PBBxfOfHLCF0mbqpfLlWbjBemkyslcs3ksaGhKuFlUv7aIBh30-yuMm-LMJesNx5VijDx0P6g-WjnuoGnBCDOkKfDXivpgQN6A24doKto" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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538. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span></div>
539. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
540. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/em9eOzIxNMiBOb5a-p-WPos1_PKzveER6E81IrlmGUml7m4QYBrVe9JjIpVWfn2B-qYNCJy-v-yWIoI5NUdKQu_Q6062YHd7mcOMp7GWxzp-dvl5fleVeznYWhH8XxPJIIlZzeY" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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543. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
544. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CONTENTS</span></div>
545. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
546. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Background ................................................................................................................................ 3</span></div>
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548. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Merchandising............................................................................................................................ 4</span></div>
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550. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning & Allocation ................................................................................................................. 6</span></div>
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552. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Store Sales & Operations ........................................................................................................... 8</span></div>
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554. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact Center ..........................................................................................................................10</span></div>
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556. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Customer Analytics ...................................................................................................................12</span></div>
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558. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Human Resources & Corporate Communications .....................................................................14</span></div>
559. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
560. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">References ...............................................................................................................................16</span></div>
561. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
562. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2</span></div>
563. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
564. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XOGSVte0kiO1OXqbl1fWUtm5EJc9vV02B83SE5uJw8ZqDi_pg5RTmxQZF7BwG6Dpm4_j3DJXfV7_d4BQDa4lPlJa492OJ1pmpFrdzYq-GqEfWl9Mr9dEDHnAcxVieIjSqFRDnUc" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
565. <hr />
566. <br />
567. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
568. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BACKGROUND</span></div>
569. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
570. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chico's FAS, Inc. is a specialty retailer of private label women's apparel, accessories and related products. They have 23,000 employees and a portfolio that consists of four brands: Chico's, White House | Black Market, Soma Intimates and Boston Proper, each of which sell merchandise through their branded channels including retail stores, catalogs and ecommerce sites. In recent years, Chico’s FAS, Inc. has made significant strides and investments towards improving its omni-channel capabilities, which reinforces their longstanding commitment to providing an outstanding, personalized customer experience across all of their sales channels. The move to Google not only serves as an enabler for this strategic vision but also creates a culture innovation and invention within the organization.</span></div>
571. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
572. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1,2</span></div>
573. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
574. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2013, Chico’s FAS, Inc. deployed Google Apps for Work to its employees worldwide, across all banners. To date, all teams across the retail organization have reported a boost in productivity and efficiency with the implementation of Google. Basic training on Calendar, Contacts, and Gmail was provided at the outset but teams have adopted the tools to meet the needs of their individual business units.</span></div>
575. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
576. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This case study provides an overview of how Google for Work tools are being used and the impact of this technology on the Chico’s FAS, Inc. retail environment.</span></div>
577. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
578. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></div>
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580. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/C6R8FChEa8cqle4zCDkCbdVkypCczubnzVezW5ka2org0iF4bIvLkLZeJ7nIhfVEwVNrYC4pkRxUWxXiDGEg2TIy6u8w1hXvMBslduBYRaXeyv-4AYRE2o-1nQH6mTSky-JwBGU" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
581. <hr />
582. <br />
583. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
584. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MERCHANDISING</span></div>
585. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
586. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In retail, the merchandising function is one of the most integral parts of the business. This team is responsible for selecting the right product assortment for each store and determining how the products should be presented and priced. Working on this team requires a great degree of collaboration and coordination of disparate information from multiple stakeholders.</span></div>
587. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
588. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3</span></div>
589. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
590. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BEFORE</span></div>
591. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
592. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• The merchant team was constantly on the go, meeting and sharing information with other internal departments, store teams, and external vendors and partners.</span></div>
593. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
594. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• Email was the primary means of communication and storage limitations were a challenge.</span></div>
595. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
596. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• Deliverables were shared back and forth via email so that the team could provide feedback and make updates to document. Often, this led to a loss in version control and/or critical feedback was lost in the process.</span></div>
597. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
598. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• They needed a better way to collaborate, share and organize merchandising and sales plans, and required the ability to access information at a moment’s notice.</span></div>
599. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
600. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AFTER</span></div>
601. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
602. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• With the move to Gmail, storage limits increased significantly so the team can refer back to previous conversations as often as they need.</span></div>
603. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
604. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• The merchandising team now uses labels and folders to group emails and keep track of ongoing conversations.</span></div>
605. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
606. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• Collaboration on merchandising and sales plans is more efficient now that files are stored in Drive and multiple stakeholders can access documents to make edits at the same time. “It’s become so seamless,” remarked one merchant referring to the collaborative nature of Drive.</span></div>
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608. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4</span></div>
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610. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/inRR3TTAtJ3KwpxIqWBGWbzoHBVspiEWFNg8jwe9Hb4qzS-om_AcCnO2oqZjoEwe6iXvyHu-7Wn5dwaSmWnaRQq5AUMoH9lBKS0BUegNl_UqhF8hdbXf017U8ndvdOQGOMzNOUg" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
611. <hr />
612. <br />
613. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 2.88pt;">
614. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• With Drive, all teams work from a single, shared version of critical documents such as buy sheets, allocation schedules, or visual merchandising planograms. They also have the ability to quickly access documents via their mobile devices when attending off-site meetings with stores and vendors.</span></div>
615. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
616. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love the ability to link and group emails.</span></div>
617. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
618. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: white; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is has de</span></div>
619. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
620. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IMPACT</span></div>
621. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
622. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gmail introduced a better way of working for a team that relies heavily on email on a daily basis. Merchant teams needed to be able to organize emails from planning teams, stores, and vendors in a logical way and key features of Gmail allowed them to do this. Similarly, Drive streamlined operations by eliminating the need to email multiple versions of merchandising plans among team members, and improved collaboration among this team and other stakeholders.</span></div>
623. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
624. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5</span></div>
625. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
626. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/0Vdqb4WumiferiLht4CeVl0jMmRmULQ3DoBrIpe8zbYCT7n9FQ1w655SFKeIgY4QH_0s8et63Fn96usb2JWYUHzBZZS6_YVhcyg3o41-nUTzqh73srWP8hju8THcNvZkEJnwTW0" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
627. <hr />
628. <br />
629. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
630. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PLANNING & ALLOCATION</span></div>
631. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
632. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Planning & Allocation team is responsible for tracking and allocating every piece of inventory that flows through the Chico’s FAS system. The Chico’s buying cycle lasts 4-6 weeks and they change floor sets every 2 weeks. Thus, merchandise sold in the first 2 weeks is most profitable for the business because it typically is sold at full margin. Whether moving inventory from a distribution center to a store or between stores, this team ensures the right product makes its way to the right location. Prior to Google, this team relied on a number of applications.4</span></div>
633. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
634. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BEFORE</span></div>
635. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
636. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• The Planning & Allocation team tracked inventory using multiple spreadsheets on a daily basis. Each of the 12 team members for the Chico’s brand were responsible for inputting their own updates, and the files were emailed back and forth within the team and shared with other business units.</span></div>
637. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
638. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• For management, having a real-time view of inventory was challenging, as there were always multiple versions of spreadsheets in circulation.</span></div>
639. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
640. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• The team was constantly asked to produce ad-hoc reports of the data to capture the status of inventory at any point in time.</span></div>
641. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
642. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• The team met weekly to respond to store call-outs and allocate inventory across stores. Often, the timing of this meeting delayed the allocation process and impacted sales and profitability if merchandise had already been marked down.</span></div>
643. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
644. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• The team needed a more efficient way to track and manage inventory and make allocation decisions in real-time, in a way that was visible to multiple functions.</span></div>
645. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
646. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6</span></div>
647. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
648. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/5r4IblSTRNVYDUZGlrJ_CeiyYnn4Y8ee54XNQ_EMEwm5xacSF_l5uY6a30MC2zIsWXZuyuJ-BRGX4WiZ9HXxe964LNAS_j2YTZoKWFYcILXwhAW2HszDeThtIl_xrA3Nw-Ry6OY" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
649. <hr />
650. <br />
651. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
652. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AFTER</span></div>
653. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
654. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• With Google Apps for Work, multiple planning teams work together in real time, reducing the number of meetings and the time required to email team members for updates to a spreadsheet. “Sheets is a tool that our team uses on a daily basis,” remarks one of the planners for White House Black Market.</span></div>
655. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
656. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• Sheets helps the team track and reallocate inventory to the locations that need it the most. Specific use cases include managing store call outs, reallocating inventory from ecommerce to stores, and tracking lost items or issues in the distribution center.</span></div>
657. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
658. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• Reallocating inventory happens in real-time and the team no longer has to wait for their weekly meeting to respond to store call-outs. This facilitates quicker movement of inventory and leads to higher margins during the first two weeks merchandise is on the sales floor.</span></div>
659. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
660. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">• Using Drive, the planning teams can easily share their planning numbers across the organization allowing management from various functions to access the data at their own convenience. This has significantly reduced requests for ad-hoc reporting and allowed the team to focus more on analyzing the data and deriving insight.</span></div>
661. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
662. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IMPACT</span></div>
663. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
664. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using Google, the Planning and Allocation team has increased productivity and the efficiency of their core business processes. Sheets has replaced the practice of emailing multiple versions of the same file and allows the team to work faster and collaborate in real time. Storing documents in a shared drive folder reduces requests for ad-hoc reporting and allows managers across multiple functions to have real time visibility into their business. Access to real-time inventory data provides management with more accurate revenue forecasting as the team no longer needs to wait for meetings.</span></div>
665. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
666. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7</span></div>
667. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
668. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/aL2xNRvDQLQBj6wUKAiiHCeCkJfk-c5MxG2heKksjWvZKg80qfvmaxFNbvNNonzxpDlvz7VFDg5pno9EXmweZ0hAaHcfAlboRyaTAdvuSfBVlEL1Ry0Q__7MOiobTDs6GR-C7WM" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
669. <hr />
670. <br />
671. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
672. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">STORE SALES & OPERATIONS</span></div>
673. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
674. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chico’s FAS, Inc. operates more than 1,500 boutiques and retail outlets throughout the US and Canada. The Store Operations team is responsible for ensuring that these stores operate efficiently. They also work hand and hand with the store sales teams to ensure they are have tools they need to create engaging customer experience, which is the hallmark of the brand.5</span></div>
675. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
676. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BEFORE</span></div>
677. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
678. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● Chico’s knew that it wanted to create a more modern work environment and personalized shopping experience in its retail stores.</span></div>
679. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
680. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● Stores and corporate headquarters communicated via phone or mail. Information such as updates to store policies or new planograms had to be organized and physically posted onto a bulletin board for employees to view. Often, paper was lost or torn as multiple people accessed the information on a daily basis.</span></div>
681. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
682. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● Store associates spent time during their shifts calling customers to alert them of new merchandise and upcoming sales and events.</span></div>
683. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
684. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● Customer engagement in the store was limited to the traditional retail interactions that customers have with products and sales associates. Advertising displays and promotional materials were static and not customized to a particular store location.</span></div>
685. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
686. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● To accomplish their vision, Chico’s would need an agile and flexible toolset that would allow them to increase the efficiency of store operations and engage customers in innovative ways.</span></div>
687. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
688. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AFTER</span></div>
689. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
690. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● Chico’s has provided email accounts to each of its stores. This has proved to be a more efficient communication tool for store associates to communicate with headquarters and with their customers.</span></div>
691. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
692. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8</span></div>
693. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
694. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="804px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/gNDLVJulvsQs59IqgxFLWf99xPEu73_DPbkd-tPV0i66hy-fqFXTnTJr-didY_mjFfOBgfLTLxDcNQItkyvissvXPRETYbTKxMgXxk_8juI8yCb8ZQgMm-b3kb4ea5tpARmzclA" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="621px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
695. <hr />
696. <br />
697. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
698. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● Now, store associates save time by making fewer phone calls to customers and email them directly from the store branded email account.</span></div>
699. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
700. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● Pertinent information received from headquarters is stored in a shared folder on Drive and is accessible from a mobile device. For example, merchandising teams can take and upload photos of new floor sets to Drive and share them instantly with the store team. Previously, these images were printed and shipped to stores and in most cases were eventually torn apart as multiple teams used the same paper copy. Drive allows everyone access to the same document multiple times, with all images intact.</span></div>
701. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
702. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● Digital signage powered by Google Chrome for Work is a key part of the Chico’s “Digital Retail Theater” strategy, which includes bringing digital signage to stores and displaying relevant content and promotions based on the store, category, and/or season. This has created a more engaging experience for Chico’s shoppers.6</span></div>
703. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
704. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">● With Google’s digital signage solution, this team can easily push out relevant content and change displays without burdening the IT department or maintaining additional hardware at each store. This team is also beginning to measure the relationship between how shoppers respond to content and the resulting impact on sales in real time, a task which was not possible prior to their adoption of Google for Work products.</span></div>
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706. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #632423; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IMPACT</span></div>
707. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
708. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The move to Google created a more efficient work environment for store associates and an innovative and engaging in-store experience for customers. With Google, associates spend less time searching for hard copies of communications from headquarters and have more time on the floor with customers. They are also able to connect with their customers via email which further enhances the clienteling experience. Digital signage powered by Chromebox devices have transformed the in-store experience, giving customers a new way to view and engage with merchandise and marketers the ability to test content and promotions in real time. Digital signage has allowed Chico’s FAS to create more relevant experiences in-store.</span></div>
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713. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.8; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s interesting how a simple business lunch can evolve into a collaboration of ideals that places a group at the forefront of technology.</span></div>
714. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
715. <br />
716. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
717. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Late 2013, I was privileged to attend a meeting at the Capital Grille’s Board room Tampa, where I dined with Michael Dell in a private six person setting alongside fellow IT executives.</span></div>
718. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
719. <br />
720. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
721. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The afternoon began with a half hour general discussion with Mr. Dell’s Southeast Florida leaders, Martin Beech and Sig Hardester. We discussed HP’s existing technical footprint at my company, and how Dell could aggressively assist in configuration and cost cutting.</span></div>
722. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
723. <br />
724. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
725. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I saw Michael Dell walk past our room to the board room for lunch, but the three of us were so engrossed in conversation that we ran over ten minutes.  We finally wrapped up our pre-lunch discussion, and headed to the room where we would have lunch with Mr. Dell.</span></div>
726. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
727. <br />
728. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
729. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I walked into the dining area where Mr. Dell and the four other IT leaders were already seated. Tent cards were laid out indicating our seat assignments.  The mere proximity to this man was a bit intimidating - this is one of the pioneers of my industry!</span></div>
730. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
731. <br />
732. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
733. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All intimidation was immediately dissipated as Michael stood and shook my hand.  His demeanor was confident yet down to earth.  As we spoke, it was clear to see through the suit to who he really is:  a man who still possesses the nerd-like technical passion he had when he was 15 years old and took his first Apple II computer apart just to see how it worked.</span></div>
734. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
735. <br />
736. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
737. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our "over lunch" discussion flowed naturally, and we touched upon many topics relating to our respective companies and general technology.  My favorite quote from our discussion is attributed to Michael Dell:  “It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.”</span></div>
738. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
739. <br />
740. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
741. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That lunch occurred just a few days prior to Mr. Dell taking his company private.  He graciously shared his insight regarding the world of Dell - the man and the company:</span></div>
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743. <br />
744. <ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
745. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
746. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As one of the largest private family owned business in the USA, Dell will be more nimble and able to create and innovate at a faster rate. </span></div>
747. </li>
748. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
749. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When asked about cell phone market,  Dell indicated that his company will not be getting involved in that sector. </span></div>
750. </li>
751. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
752. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the near future, the company’s main focus will be laptops, tablets and security devices. </span></div>
753. </li>
754. <li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
755. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He made it clear that his laser beam focus was towards the future, particularly in the area of memory/disc/enterprise all being closer to each other from a speed perspective. Although he didn’t mention it directly, I’d like to think that we are nearing to the quantum computing realm.(wishful thinking) </span></div>
756. </li>
757. </ul>
758. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
759. <br />
760. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
761. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The group discussion was fascinating, but the most interesting part was my conversation with Mr. Dell that related to the evolution of computing. The conversation traversed terminal to mainframe to distributed computing, then full circle to mainframe, or worldframe.  We discussed the advent of networking, Banyan, Novell, (late 80’s), when you actually had to configure each component of a server, installing (sometimes soldering) memory chips in a motherboard, formatting hard drives, and performance-tune the Operating system to the specific business use of the server.  As time went on these activities became wizard driven,  where one would choose the business function of the server whether it be database, file service, or other business utilities- and then "push the button" and start feeding disks (mid 90’s) </span></div>
762. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
763. <br />
764. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
765. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After leaving the time capsule conversation, I posed the question of the smart appliance approach. "Are we nearing the time where a business can consolidate all enterprise services?” We discussed the possibility of the consolidation of network switches, servers, server clusters, storage devices, etc., into one appliance or even separate replaceable intelligent appliances that can autonomously learn, spawn, and tune the environment to make a new installation or upgrade of a major system. The amalgamation of these devices would culminate in an enterprise appliance wizard whose purpose is driven by a need to lower the overall cost, support, and complexity, while increasing optimum performance across a global organization.</span></div>
766. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
767. <br />
768. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
769. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michael said, "Yeah, like enterprise in a box," which, later in the conversation, was referred to as the “easy button” concept. This ideal is an integral component in their R&D efforts.</span></div>
770. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
771. <br />
772. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
773. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many technology companies are in a constant game of leapfrog to keep pace with the ever-evolving landscape (e.g., IoT). I asked Mr. Dell to expand on his R&D team structure and how many of them were actual futurists, staying out in front of the fast paced technology time curve.  He explained that he had multiple CTOs across the globe, reporting up through one governing CTO who, as part of his charter, keeps a measured segment of each group’s eye on the future, building and creating new things through very close collaboration.</span></div>
774. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
775. <br />
776. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
777. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During our conversation, I realized that the overarching concept was a modern derivation of Moore’s Law, which is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits (IC) doubles approximately every two years. The conversation morphed into a macro version, out of the actual realm of IC’s toward the physical technical appliances housing them.</span></div>
778. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
779. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="322px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/aFoEw3VNckulS6K4NsHvN0i0fv03ffsZEfBXzRQJwtfjQhs9uvuTEnM_DwUnb3AWe4iyXaOsFK2ibzEgyPyliy4Ihi7KJeJ5gzBFtiIm2m8LrILIUJikSXiKgxRtDANX0Hj6b_w" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="510px;" /></span></div>
780. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
781. <br />
782. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
783. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When reflecting back on the entirety of the experience, while the food was good and the conversation was better, the best part of the afternoon was a personal invitation from Michael to visit Dell’s research and development lab to be a first-hand witness to the exciting advancements the company is making in our industry.</span></div>
784. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
785. <br />
786. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
787. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This encounter with Mr. Dell is now one of my </span><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/premier100/detail/763" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">career highlights</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
788. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
789. <br />
790. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
791. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A couple of days after the luncheon, I received a personal follow up email and Linkedin connection from Mr Dell.  The email ended with “contact me directly anytime you feel I can be helpful”</span></div>
792. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
793. <br />
794. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
795. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have reached out a few times since relating to new technology, but no contact with Mr. Dell has been more important or beneficial to than the one I made about my company’s security position.</span></div>
796. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
797. <br />
798. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
799. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the rapid succession of breaches that impacted over dozen large corporations, it became clear that the landscape of security had been changed forever.  These breaches clearly demonstrated  that regardless of best practices and PCI compliance, there is no network or system that is 100% safe from a cyber-attack.  With this in mind, I set a goal of strengthening my company’s security posture with focus on awareness, monitoring controls, and strong vendor partnerships.</span></div>
800. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
801. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I reached back out to Mr. Dell, who put me together with the security arm of his company.  </span></div>
802. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
803. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From the very first meeting, our two organizations naturally formed a high performance work team with a hive mentality. Each and every individual contributed thought capital that lead to the creation of a program designed to meet an ever-evolving threat landscape.</span></div>
804. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
805. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The combined team concentrated their efforts on identifying key weaknesses using the Cyber Kill Chain - a variant of a military kill chain.  With focus on people, process, and best in class systems, the team swarmed and collaborated against an aggressive timeline to introduce additional security tool sets into our enterprise infrastructure. To assist with diligent monitoring, we integrated with Dell’s Security Operations Center. The added expertise of highly trained security professionals provides us with 24/7/365 staff augmentation, shortened operational cycle times, and expedited detection and eradication of attacks, vulnerabilities, and threats in our environment.  The end product is designed to be as polymorphic as the threats that exist in the wild.</span></div>
806. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
807. <br />
808. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
809. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Due to the proprietary nature of the implementation, I cannot disclose specific security solutions in place.  I can say that the systems generate log data that is fed to the SOC, where a secret sauce correlates millions of logs to filter data and generate truly actionable events.  </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are leveraging Dell’s proprietary Counter Threat Platform, powered by their Multiple Process Logic Engine (MPLE), that processes more than </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">110 billion </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">events a day, and correlates, analyzes and identifies those events down to approximately 4,000 security incidents that are escalated to clients.</span></div>
810. <b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
811. <br />
812. <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
813. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At a recent TAG event, I met up with Michael and personally thanked him for brokering a business partnership that my company will benefit from for years to come. The photo below commemorates the event,  with Michael, my mentor Kent, and me. I look forward our paths crossing again in the very near future.</span></div>
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817. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="dellmario.png" height="498" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/UNvpimiywUmvOMhEbb_7NI9XCVx9SOigCLPyfaIC_CDrUEUVlWWEIXTqr6US1UY9nY58tK0lMIgqq__kZCp-m3WKGKIPDZ1xUKdKtn4c-289gEYunGyiYVvQjVBhGth6WUPfcyI" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="640" /></span></div>
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842. <span class="byline-author">Posted by Eric Singleton, Chief Information Officer and </span>Alan Mariotti, Vice President of IT and Security at Chico’s FAS Inc<br />
843. <i><b><br /></b></i><i><b>Editor's note:</b> Today’s guest bloggers are Eric Singleton, Chief Information Officer and </i><i>Alan Mariotti, Vice President of IT and Security </i><i>at <a href="http://www.chicosfas.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=72638&p=irol-IRHome" target="_blank">Chico’s FAS Inc</a>, a retailer established in 1983 with a nationwide family of brands that include Chico's, White House | Black Market, Soma Intimates and Boston Proper. See what other organizations that have gone Google <a href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html?utm_campaign=entblog&utm_source=Chicos11152013&utm_medium=blog" target="_blank">have to say</a>.</i><br />
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845. Chico’s FAS first opened its doors in 1983 in a 800 square foot tobacco shop in Sanibel Island, Florida, where folk art, sweaters and accessories from Mexico filled the store’s shelves. The clothing took off, and within two years, a second store opened nearby. Now, 30 years after getting started, we employ 22,000 people, operate 1,470 stores and own four specialty retail brands: Chico’s, White House l Black Market, Soma Intimates and Boston Proper.<br />
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847. Our technology changed quite a bit over the years, and in early 2013, we realized we were limping along with a very outdated email system and escalating infrastructure and storage costs. We considered our options: we could keep the status quo and upgrade from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to the 2013 version—which would cost millions—or go with a lower-cost option that would both help our distributed workforce collaborate faster and eliminate our need for resource-intensive servers. We tested Google Apps with 100 employees in one of our business groups and it passed all of our testing and scalability metrics within a few short months. The enthusiasm and efficiency gains alone convinced us it was the obvious and most cost-effective solution.<br />
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849. Our decision to move to Google Apps is also part of a larger cultural shift we are driving at Chico’s, where we’re looking toward technology to enable swifter innovation and invention across the company. With traditional enterprise environments, information is siloed, existing in separate servers and applications, leaving a business to operate as the sum of many independent parts. We’re moving away from this toward a more progressive hybrid cloud model, with Google at the foundation. It’s this new environment, positive feedback loops accelerate, and we can bring together multiple solutions and data sources, all built in the cloud, and look at our business holistically. That’s our vision, and Google is a big part of it.<br />
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851. Even though we have completed our entire enterprise deployment, our journey with Google has just begun and we’re already seeing some great benefits. Our ability to collaborate and share sensitive information across our global team has significantly improved since moving to Google Apps — and we’re saving money at the same time. Our team in Hong Kong, for example, is responsible for visiting and monitoring our factories to ensure they’re compliant with numerous security and performance standards. Before “going Google,” we found ourselves physically travelling back and forth quite often to meet and review access to important documents in person. Now, the U.S. team jumps on a Google+ Hangout with its Hong Kong counterpart, pulls up the essential information from Drive, and has a productive meeting from halfway across the world, all while resting assured that the information is safe and secure in the cloud. Additionally, cost on travel in dollars and time away from campus is greatly reduced.<br />
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853. The benefits of moving to Google Apps continue to reveal themselves to the global team each day. That’s part of the reason we’re so excited about our new platform: not only do we know our information is secure or that our employees are collaborating in new ways over Hangouts and in Docs—we know this is just the tip of the iceberg. We’re driving a new culture of innovation and invention, and Google is one of the cornerstones of that vision.</div>
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902. The Premier 100 program was created in 2000 to spotlight individuals who have had a positive impact on their organizations through technology. These are individuals who manage internal IT organizations, mentor and motivate their IT teams and business colleagues, create a positive work environment, envision innovative solutions to business challenges and effectively manage and execute IT strategies. Each year nominees are invited to complete a survey that addresses a number of topics, including their background and experience and their attitude toward risk and innovation. Using Computerworld’s IT Leader Index, which is a measurement of how closely an individual matches our definition of the IT Leader, we analyze the data. Each year, 100 honorees are selected to receive this life-time recognition award. Information on previous honorees can be viewed at:<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9065479/Premier_100_IT_Leaders" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9065479/Premier_100_IT_Leaders</a></div>
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907. Computerworld is the leading IT media brand helping Sr. IT, business decision-makers and key influencers navigate change with effective business strategy. Computerworld enables the IT value chain with unique editorial coverage from setting strategies to deriving value and continues to be the voice of business technology. Computerworld’s award-winning website (<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.computerworld.com</a>), strategic marketing services and research form the hub of the world’s largest (40+ edition) global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT vendors to engage this audience. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 7.2 million monthly page views (Omniture, Jan. 2014 – June 2014 average) and was recognized in BtoB’s 2013 Media Power 50 list; recognition Computerworld has received for more than 5 consecutive years. Computerworld is published by IDG Enterprise, a subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world’s leading media, events and research company. Company information is available at <a href="http://www.idgenterprise.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.idgenterprise.com</a>.</div>
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916. Business and Digital Transformation Recognized by Computerworld’s 2015 Premier 100 Award</h3>
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918. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AGENDA15 Conference to honor Computerworld’s Premier 100 Class of 2015</em></div>
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920. <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">November 4, 2014—Framingham, Mass—</strong> IDG’s <a href="http://bit.ly/1qUrp6R" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Computerworld</a>—the leading IT media brand dedicated to being the voice of business technology—reveals the 2015<a href="http://bit.ly/13kTI3V" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders</a>. This year’s Premier 100 spotlights 100 leaders from both the technology and business sides of companies for their exceptional technology leadership and innovative approaches to business challenges. The honorees will be recognized during the <a href="http://bit.ly/1ufA1Ec" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AGENDA Conference</a>, co-produced by <a href="http://bit.ly/L3kXUz" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CIO</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/1qUrp6R" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Computerworld</a> and the<a href="http://bit.ly/1rW9uI0" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CIO Executive Council</a>.</div>
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922. The AGENDA15 conference will be held March 30-April 1, 2015, at Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort in Amelia Island, Florida. Recipients of another award, the new <a href="http://bit.ly/1vulnrr" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #007dc3; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Digital Edge 25 Award</a>, will also be recognized at AGENDA15.</div>
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924. “The Premier 100 awards program showcases the innovative work of a dedicated group of IT leaders who are using technology to solve business problems in their organizations,” said Scot Finnie, editor in chief of Computerworld. “Every day, these tech-savvy professionals are positioning their organizations for success by mapping IT projects to strategic business initiatives. They also ensure that their departments are set up to quickly enable new ideas, and they balance the need for free and open access to information with concerns about security and compliance. These 100 men and women are using their vast experience in managing people and projects to stay a step ahead. We’re pleased to recognize their leadership and honor their achievements.”</div>
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926. Among the many types of Premier 100 projects earning recognition is transformation to a digital-centric enterprise. Digital transformation is the theme of the AGENDA15 conference, which will bring together more than 300 senior IT and line of business leaders, including the Premier 100 honorees. The event will create a unique atmosphere for cross-functional business discussions, into which technology solution providers can integrate themselves from the beginning.</div>
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928. “Business transformation through the use of technology is occurring at lightning speed because of innovative and resourceful technology and business leaders, like the Premier 100 honorees,” said Adam Dennison, SVP and publisher. “I am excited to have the 2015 Premier 100 honorees come together at AGENDA15 to share their success stories of utilizing the SMAC stack (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) to fuel their organization’s digital transformation.”</div>
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930. <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2015 Premier 100 Honorees:</strong></div>
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932. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Orlando A. Agrippa</strong>, Deputy CIO, Director of Informatics, Barts Health NHS Trust</li>
933. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edgar</strong> <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Aguilar</strong>, CTO, Operations, MasterCard</li>
934. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David L. Aires</strong>, Vice President, IT Operations, Intel IT, Intel Corp.</li>
935. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan N. Aliber</strong>, Vice President of Global Business Services – IT, Raytheon Co.</li>
936. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David M. Atrostic</strong>, Vice President of IT, TASER International</li>
937. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Werner Baer</strong>, Vice President of IT, PPG Industries Inc.</li>
938. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Atish Banerjea</strong>, Executive Vice President and CIO, NBCUniversal Inc.</li>
939. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mark D. Barner</strong>, Senior Vice President, CIO, Ascension</li>
940. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">James Barrese</strong>, CTO, PayPal</li>
941. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Caroline Y. Basyn</strong>, CIO, Bacardi</li>
942. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan Berglund</strong>, Director of IT, Children’s Hunger Fund</li>
943. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ron Bewtra</strong>, CTO, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration</li>
944. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indra K. Bishop</strong>, CIO, Harvard Graduate School of Education</li>
945. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Luca Bonmassar</strong>, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Gild Inc.</li>
946. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ryan G. Boone</strong>, Senior Vice President and CIO, Dollar General</li>
947. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bob Bruns</strong>, Vice President, Infrastructure Services and Collaboration, Avanade</li>
948. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brian Chan</strong>, Vice President of IT, Avnet Inc.</li>
949. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anil Cheriyan</strong>, CIO, SunTrust Banks Inc.</li>
950. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Keith Collins</strong>, CIO, SAS</li>
951. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David A. Cooke</strong>, Director of Technology, Altum Inc.</li>
952. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andy Cooper</strong>, Senior Vice President, Equifax Inc.</li>
953. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Daniela Crivianu-Gaita</strong>, CIO, Gamma-Dynacare Medical Laboratories</li>
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963. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michael P. Foster</strong>, Vice President IT/CIO; Europe, Middle East, Africa and Indian Sub-Continent, FedEx Express Europe Inc.</li>
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977. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hari Jayaram</strong>, Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions and Support, Global Information Services, AMAT</li>
978. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike Jennings</strong>, Head of IT, Airbnb</li>
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982. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bryson R. Koehler</strong>, Executive Vice President, CIO and CTO, The Weather Company</li>
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989. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bob Lofton</strong>, Vice President, IT Foundational Services, NetApp Inc.</li>
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998. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christopher K. McMasters</strong>, Vice President, CIO, Honeyville Inc.</li>
999. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wen Miao</strong>, Senior Vice President of Client Services and TIBCO Experience Cloud Group, TIBCO Software</li>
1000. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bart T. Murphy</strong>, CTO, CIO, CareWorks</li>
1001. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kevin Edward Murray</strong>, Chief Operating Officer and CIO, AXA UK</li>
1002. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Suma Nallapati</strong>, Secretary of Technology and CIO, Governor’s Office of IT, Colorado</li>
1003. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thod Nguyen</strong>, CTO, eHarmony Inc.</li>
1004. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michele Norin</strong>, CIO, The University of Arizona</li>
1005. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bert Odinet</strong>, CIO, Freeport-McMoRan Inc.</li>
1006. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vikas Parikh</strong>, IT Director, Acquisitions & Integrations, General Electric</li>
1007. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kyle Phillips</strong>, Director, Ecommerce Technology, Carters Inc.</li>
1008. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Pischke</strong>, Vice President, IT, Lehigh Hanson Inc.</li>
1009. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert B. Quarterman</strong>, Vice President, Infrastructure Architecture and Technical Services, Service Benefit Plan Administrative Services Corp.</li>
1010. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indy Reddy</strong>, Head of Global Operations and Technology, Citi Private Bank, Citigroup</li>
1011. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ram Reddy</strong>, Vice President of Projects and Strategy, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.</li>
1012. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David Reilly</strong>, Technology Infrastructure Executive, Bank of America</li>
1013. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Faye K. Sahai</strong>, Vice President, Innovation & Advanced Technology, Kaiser Permanente</li>
1014. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sanjib Sahoo</strong>, CTO, tradeMonster Group</li>
1015. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reed A. Sheard</strong>, Vice President for College Advancement and CIO, Westmont College</li>
1016. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kelly Shen</strong>, CIO, Business Intelligence, GE Capital Americas</li>
1017. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anthony P. Stevens</strong>, CIO, KPMG</li>
1018. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David L. Stevens</strong>, CIO, Maricopa County</li>
1019. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yerramalli Subramaniam</strong>, CTO and Co-founder, Cliniops Inc.</li>
1020. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">James D. Swanson</strong>, CIO, Monsanto Co.</li>
1021. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">William Swislow</strong>, CIO and Senior Vice President, Product, Cars.com</li>
1022. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt Thomlinson</strong>, Vice President, Microsoft Security, Microsoft</li>
1023. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Tonnison</strong>, Executive Vice President and CIO, Tech Data Corp.</li>
1024. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Udo Waibel</strong>, CTO, FrontRange</li>
1025. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack Walker</strong>, Managing Vice President, Technology Operations, Capital One</li>
1026. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Scott Whisman</strong>, General Manager, Corporate Services, Jack Henry & Associates</li>
1027. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joanne M. Wilken</strong>, Senior Vice President of Business Relationship & Systems Delivery, Scottrade Financial Services Inc.</li>
1028. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kevin Winter</strong>, Vice President and CIO, Booz Allen Hamilton</li>
1029. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Deanna Wise</strong>, Executive Vice President, CIO, Dignity Health</li>
1030. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bryan A. Wolf</strong>, CIO, Chair of Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia</li>
1031. <li style="background: url(http://www.idgenterprise.com/wp-content/themes/idge-2.2/img/bullet.png) 0px 5px no-repeat scroll transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zhanbei Zhu</strong>, Group CIO and Vice President, Dalian Wanda Group Corp.</li>
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1037. &lt;a href=&quot;http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/05/google-7/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/05/google-7/&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/8243827014955735436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/07/httptech.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/8243827014955735436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/8243827014955735436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/07/httptech.html' title=''/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhKr3xY01B6cuwgrE6FNFZXAkod6kZ8Q5LKaJgJ-uWU_XDUM7J9b2gEaDi5RtWal8P3QClJUrahAsqy0AK7E3iFPLNbt2CTOyQcuOB6K5wXDqIdIWlQjxUTZVgbxZRjMaNNbvbnMVHIl7/s72-c/brochure_skomax_head.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-3024738391535405341</id><published>2012-07-07T19:28:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-07T19:28:06.773-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
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1045. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/3024738391535405341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/07/alan-mariotti-ceo-skomax-googe-apps.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/3024738391535405341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/3024738391535405341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/07/alan-mariotti-ceo-skomax-googe-apps.html' title=''/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyp8HgiIhdcoPLQsUC06dku3xLItVCbfRK1f8XgynKMS0YB6IMrYfWUx1_9VVwokxiOXxHbUByTEKxpPt-mBhurR9ekgNuHlQL5CdDTWw84S-xq2fhtXY_ge9lw7svMXLFVqHLxCoFYqBK/s72-c/cdepspec.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-4178537280853735497</id><published>2012-07-02T18:02:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-02T18:02:54.280-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
1046. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alan Mariotti,CEO of Skomax is now a certified Google Apps Sales Specialist. Certified Deployment Specialist Exam this week!</span></div>
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1057. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/4178537280853735497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/07/alan-mariotticeo-of-skomax-is-now.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/4178537280853735497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/4178537280853735497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/07/alan-mariotticeo-of-skomax-is-now.html' title=''/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix5vTaCNJM7rX22AsQTvVYcA59j3pJsJGuCWJQSgXyi0rMgwuEC60zs5gscv48H81NOPyfI3aMZgICmiWOipJXD3a2VsHpSseoLf-_vd_CWy49UMGfolv4fEIVAr9a_j8UmDUSIW1BWjAo/s72-c/badge_css_v2_web.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-2351216019892545407</id><published>2012-06-20T07:16:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2015-04-26T12:07:32.070-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ryan Feeley, System Administrator for Skomax</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #fbfbfb; border: none; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Skomax &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #fbfbfb; border: none; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;would like to commend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #fbfbfb; border: none; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt; Ryan Feeley &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;in passing the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://certification.googleapps.com/Home/overview&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #fbfbfb; border: none; color: #1594d9; font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist Exam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;this month becomming the 626th person world-wide to hold this credential.&lt;/span&gt;
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1064. <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Ryan Feeley, Senior Systems Administrator for Skomax has completed the Google Certification for Google Apps Deployment and plans to add many more industry certifications to his growing skill base this year. </span><br />
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1072. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/2351216019892545407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/06/ryan-feeley-system-administrator-for.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/2351216019892545407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/2351216019892545407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/06/ryan-feeley-system-administrator-for.html' title='Ryan Feeley, System Administrator for Skomax'/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj7xXru76rU7LY70ZW9m-WVk2zOAtptVbP4nXQ2Xr_mHJD7HSjtShJYhl1tPN3_7RyANR4IwaXmgxEdiUDwCSdHL5eenUbGpy8Zt469xcosndyT-nh9Pc8zQLEqRuIP25jqceFG6WLt2-W/s72-c/badge_cds_web_v2.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-288774278300921705</id><published>2012-04-27T20:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-04-27T20:09:23.476-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dataliberation.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Dataliberation.org&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/288774278300921705/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/04/dataliberation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/288774278300921705'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/288774278300921705'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/04/dataliberation.html' title=''/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-1969558958462999780</id><published>2012-04-06T12:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-04-06T12:03:36.329-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Skomax Time Square PR Debut</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
1073. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1z9XBRJa_Yeq4YThyphenhyphen1Q2N704zbokJTARR-eIatm3Bk1HpRdESsgdnfrPnzv8FZ_hILazNixgU_W_sAHSrRHH2MdULpvK5VaoYYTILRpndcqSOATiFKKtketqpPgm9zw3PEF7ZBAwKgrIu/s1600/SKOMAX-GOOGLE-APPS-FOR-BUSINESS-ts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1z9XBRJa_Yeq4YThyphenhyphen1Q2N704zbokJTARR-eIatm3Bk1HpRdESsgdnfrPnzv8FZ_hILazNixgU_W_sAHSrRHH2MdULpvK5VaoYYTILRpndcqSOATiFKKtketqpPgm9zw3PEF7ZBAwKgrIu/s320/SKOMAX-GOOGLE-APPS-FOR-BUSINESS-ts.jpg" width="180" /></a></div>
1074. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/1969558958462999780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/04/skomax-time-square-pr-debut.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/1969558958462999780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/1969558958462999780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/04/skomax-time-square-pr-debut.html' title='Skomax Time Square PR Debut'/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1z9XBRJa_Yeq4YThyphenhyphen1Q2N704zbokJTARR-eIatm3Bk1HpRdESsgdnfrPnzv8FZ_hILazNixgU_W_sAHSrRHH2MdULpvK5VaoYYTILRpndcqSOATiFKKtketqpPgm9zw3PEF7ZBAwKgrIu/s72-c/SKOMAX-GOOGLE-APPS-FOR-BUSINESS-ts.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-7952080617118191585</id><published>2012-04-02T09:28:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-04-02T09:28:38.438-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Skomax Press Release 5pm April 2nd 2012</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;
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1077. <tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 278px;"><b>Scheduled Time:</b></td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Monday, April 02, 2012 5:00:00 PM</td></tr>
1078. <tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 278px;"><b>Industries:</b></td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Computer Hardware;Computer Networks;Computer Software</td></tr>
1079. <tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 278px;"><b>Subjects:</b></td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">New Products/Services;Small Business Services</td></tr>
1080. <tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 278px;"><b>Headline:</b></td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Skomax Joins Google Apps Reseller Program</td></tr>
1081. <tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 278px;"><b>Sub-headline:</b></td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Transforming Business in a Changing World</td></tr>
1082. <tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 278px;"><b>Dateline/Location:</b></td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">West Melbourne, Florida</td></tr>
1083. <tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 278px;"><b>Image:</b></td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">NEW_Shaded_RGB_450px_Apps-for-<wbr></wbr>Business.jpg</td></tr>
1084. <tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 278px;"><b>Image Caption:</b></td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“Using Skomax for our company’s migration to Google Apps for Business has allowed us to increase efficiency and productivity throughout our organization. Our company manages 100 associates and employees, and Google Apps has allowed us to condense collaboration and communication into one easy to manage, centralized location, rather than having multiple revisions of documents exchanged via email,” said Darlene Lopez, Chief Operating Officer of Incanto Consulting, Inc., a Skomax and Google Apps customer. Skomax.com <a href="tel:800.917.9429" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+18009179429">800.917.9429</a></td></tr>
1085. <tr><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 278px;"><b>Times square headline:</b></td><td style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Migrate your IT infrastructure to the Cloud with Skomax & Google Apps</td></tr>
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1088. <b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skomax Corporation Joins Google Apps Reseller Program</span></b></div>
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1090. <b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">March 29, 2012 – Skomax today announced that it has become an authorized reseller of the Google Apps ™ suite of communication and collaboration tools. With over 25 years of experience in all areas of Technology and Business Reengineering, Skomax has recognized Google Apps™ as the most innovative and powerful business solution to be introduced to the IT sector in decades. </span></b></div>
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1094. <b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations of any size – all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs. With Gmail (including Google email security, powered by Postini), Google Calendar, and integrated Instant Messaging, users can stay connected and work together with ease. And, using Google Docs and Sites, which include word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and website creation tools, they can share files and collaborate in real time, keeping versions organized and available wherever and whenever users work.</span></b></div>
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1098. <b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Using Skomax for our company’s migration to Google Apps for Business has allowed us to increase efficiency and productivity throughout our organization. Our company manages 100 associates and employees, and Google Apps has allowed us to condense collaboration and communication into one easy to manage, centralized location, rather than having multiple revisions of documents exchanged via email,” said Darlene Lopez, Chief Operating Officer of Incanto Consulting, Inc., a Skomax and Google Apps customer.</span></b></div>
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1102. <b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since the late Eighties, the computing world has evolved at an exponentially increasing pace, with many new technologies coming onto the market.  Skomax has been involved in this evolution process,  from  Downsizing Mainframes  to various iterations of Client Server computing  through to today’s Cloud Computing environment. With a focus on efficiency, data confidentiality, integrity and high availability, Cloud Computing -- and Google Apps in particular --  makes maintaining expensive on-site hardware increasingly, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a thing of the past.</span></b></div>
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1106. <b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I have worked with numerous Fortune 500 firms, with IT budgets ranging from 50 to 500 million dollars. My immediate wish is that the CEO’s, CIO’s, and especially the CFO’s explore  Google Apps for Business™ to achieve the most for their IT investment. Google Apps provides businesses with data integrity, confidentiality, and high availability in one wrapper. I am proud to provide both sales and services for Google Apps for Business™. ” said  Alan Mariotti, CEO of Skomax Corporation.”</span></b></div>
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1108. <b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://skomax.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Http://skomax.com</a>   <a href="tel:800.947.9429" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+18009479429">800.947.9429</a>  Alan@Skomaxapps.com</span></b></div>
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1111. &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/7952080617118191585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/04/skomax-press-release-5pm-april-2nd-2012.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/7952080617118191585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/7952080617118191585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/04/skomax-press-release-5pm-april-2nd-2012.html' title='Skomax Press Release 5pm April 2nd 2012'/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-4745885387459542538</id><published>2012-03-30T16:41:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2012-03-30T16:41:41.450-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Google Vault - New Product</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/google-vault-will-help-gmail-users-with-an-ugly-legal-problem-2012-3?utm_source=twbutton&amp;amp;utm_medium=social&amp;amp;utm_campaign=enterprise&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Google Vault - Excellent Product for Business&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/4745885387459542538/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/03/google-vault-new-product.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/4745885387459542538'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/4745885387459542538'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/03/google-vault-new-product.html' title='Google Vault - New Product'/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-548423740828558172</id><published>2012-03-20T08:27:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-03-25T15:04:19.832-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;content&quot;&gt;
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1114. <div class=" description summary">
1115.      Technologist with a reputation for guiding organizational
1116. transformations through, cloud computing, virtualized environments,
1117. expert process mapping to drastically reduce IT and overall business
1118. expenditures. Devoted IT  change agent with proven leadership, analyzing
1119. business needs to design, develop, and implement IT solutions that
1120. streamline businesses and leverage emerging technologies. Exemplary
1121. strategic and tactical skills with an aptitude for cultivating and
1122. strengthening all functions of business through proven process
1123. application.  Prominent track record creating and directing successful
1124. technology operations and global enterprise solutions. Adept at leading
1125. teams through all lifecycle phases for organizations in diverse
1126. industries including aerospace, manufacturing, consumer goods,
1127. automotive, technology, and fashion.<br />
1128. <br />
1129. <br />
1130. Notable Accomplishments in the field of technology:<br />
1131. <br />
1132. • ComputerWorld Smithsonian (3)<br />
1133. • CIO Top 100 Recipient (2)<br />
1134. • Microsoft Pinnacle Award for Excellence<br />
1135. • Premier 100 Award Excellence<br />
1136. • SmartBusiness 50 Business Innovator recipient <br />
1137. • Gubernatorial Commendation for community service <br />
1138. • White House Technical Director<br />
1139. • Multiple Software Copyrights 1988-2011<br />
1140. • Mainstream Technology Certifications (36)<br />
1141. <br />
1142. Certifications in Business and Technology. Ranging from Effective Negotiations, Secutiy, to Six Sigma.<br />
1143. <br />
1144. Partial list of prior consultation engagements and Employers:<br />
1145. Tommy Hilfiger<br />
1146. Honeywell/ AlliedSignal<br />
1147. Ford Models<br />
1148. Jos A Bank<br />
1149. NASA <br />
1150. Raytheon Prestone  <br />
1151. AOL <br />
1152. Columbia Energy <br />
1153. Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster Kantor & Reed<br />
1154. <br />
1155. Various Government Agencies to include:<br />
1156. Department of Defense<br />
1157. Central Intelligence Agency <br />
1158. Department of State<br />
1159. Orange County Florida
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1161. <div id="profile-specialties">
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1163.  
1164. Specialties</h4>
1165. <div class="null">
1166. Business and Technical Process Engineering</div>
1167. </div>
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1169. &lt;span class=&quot;status&quot;&gt;Security (Technical and Non-Technical)&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/548423740828558172/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/03/bn5thc9k9rzk.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/548423740828558172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/548423740828558172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/03/bn5thc9k9rzk.html' title=''/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsCz-YokYJAgkWqD8zDnI-EYn2jeAVQ0IDXDf6T3A_rupcoNIXnTWpbaOei-oQ9YtlMtw3gmSZ5ehGLYS3IY8xmhEuHfIUTJHZnj6jMo1F9iGkLHhIK38zYzz1UJhnT9Qb_bF4mxp766G/s72-c/AppsResellerBadge.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-1824409753960822173</id><published>2012-03-19T09:23:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-03-19T09:23:31.258-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I found this article very &amp;nbsp;informative :&lt;br /&gt;
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1171. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar=&articleID=5585092604673929294&ids=dP0Pdj0NejAQcj0RdzkQdjwRdiMQej8VczAPdPoQc3oOej0Re3kRb3ARczwMd3sTe38VcjoPdPkUdjkIdPkVejkPc3wSczkQcjwSdjwRdiMUe3wNczkUejkOdP4Nd3gOe3kR&aag=true&freq=weekly&trk=eml-tod2-b-pub-3&ut=0yDY9OFa4lOB81" target="_blank">Personal Cloud’ to Replace PC by 2014</a><br />
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1176. <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/skomaxapps.com/consult/home" style="color: #6e6c64;">Google Enterprise for Brevard County</a></h2>
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1178. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsCz-YokYJAgkWqD8zDnI-EYn2jeAVQ0IDXDf6T3A_rupcoNIXnTWpbaOei-oQ9YtlMtw3gmSZ5ehGLYS3IY8xmhEuHfIUTJHZnj6jMo1F9iGkLHhIK38zYzz1UJhnT9Qb_bF4mxp766G/s1600/AppsResellerBadge.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsCz-YokYJAgkWqD8zDnI-EYn2jeAVQ0IDXDf6T3A_rupcoNIXnTWpbaOei-oQ9YtlMtw3gmSZ5ehGLYS3IY8xmhEuHfIUTJHZnj6jMo1F9iGkLHhIK38zYzz1UJhnT9Qb_bF4mxp766G/s1600/AppsResellerBadge.JPG" /></a></div>
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1180. SKOMAX is committed to offering services designed to help organizations improve through optimized processes. As a part of our services portfolio, Skomax offers our clients the resources needed to achieve organizational success through people, processes and technology. We provide your organization with services aimed at delivering measurable results.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/feeds/1824409753960822173/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-found-this-article-very-personal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/1824409753960822173'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1339469997836644167/posts/default/1824409753960822173'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://skomaxapps.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-found-this-article-very-personal.html' title=''/><author><name>alan mariotti</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15001439709023131845</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsCz-YokYJAgkWqD8zDnI-EYn2jeAVQ0IDXDf6T3A_rupcoNIXnTWpbaOei-oQ9YtlMtw3gmSZ5ehGLYS3IY8xmhEuHfIUTJHZnj6jMo1F9iGkLHhIK38zYzz1UJhnT9Qb_bF4mxp766G/s72-c/AppsResellerBadge.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339469997836644167.post-7346855439831041161</id><published>2012-03-05T13:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-03-19T17:36:26.149-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Brevard County Google Apps Reseller"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Brevard Google Apps Reseller"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Google Apps for Business"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Melbourne Florida Google Apps Reseller"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Orange County Google Apps Reseller"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Skomax Google Apps Reseller"/><title type='text'>Brevard County Google Apps for Business</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
1181. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Skomax  has become an authorized reseller of the Google Apps™ suite of communication and collaboration tools.  </span> </div>
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1192. <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations of any size </span><span style="color: #444444;">– all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize </span><span style="color: #444444;">maintenance, and reduce IT costs.  </span><span style="color: #444444;">With Gmail (including Google Email Security, powered by Postini), Google Calendar, and integrated Instant Messager, users can stay connected and work together with ease. And, using Google Docs and Google Sites, which include word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and website creation tools, your entire organization can share files and collaborate in real-time, keeping versions organized and available wherever and whenever users work. </span></span></div>
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1200. <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since the late Eighties, t</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">he evolution of the computing environment  has been fast paced and filled with exciting new technologies. Skomax has been involved in this evolution since the onset of the Mainframe downsizing movement, having downsized the first Mainframe to Client/Server for the Orange County Property Appraiser. Once the centralized approach was embraced and trusted by the masses, enterprise computing began to proliferate. Fortune 50 companies started to adopt decentralization, moving away from "Big Iron" to the Client/Server approach to run their enterprise. Working with both the public and private sectors, Skomax has assisted companies in overcoming the many variations and complications of technology evolution, from integrating email to fully collaborated enterprise solutions designed to unify the work force.</span></span></div>
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1208. <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of these Fortune 50 organizations had amassed  infrastructures in excess of 50 million+ users. Skomax has shifted its focus to Google Enterprise Reseller out of the sheer technical genius put into Google Apps for the Enterprise. Google has put everything together for an easy-to-deploy end to end enterprise solution. Google Apps for Business is not just for the Enterprise; companies of all sizes can experience the scales of economy resulting from Google Apps implementation. The seamless integration of the entire suite, with a very short go-live process, gives ANY business a truly tremendous reduction in costs across the board and across the budgets. As a certified Google Reseller, Skomax can assist your organization with its migration to this amazing new technology. Contact us for your free consultation.</span></span></div>
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