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Home Remodeling, Moving To SaaS, And Life Lessons

Home Remodeling, Moving To SaaS, And Life Lessons

By Naomi Bloom on June 30, 2016

Familiar Vendor Is NO Excuse For Short-Cutting Due Diligence! In the last year, I’ve relearned a valuable lesson in vendor research, short-listing, evaluation, selection and management, and it’s been a very painful, expensive, and embarrassing lesson for someone who should have known better.  Yes, there’s no fool like an old fool, especially when we let […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Outcomes, enterprise software, HRM Software, KSAOCs, Life's Challenges, SaaS

There Are No Stars On A Failed Project!

There Are No Stars On A Failed Project!

By Naomi Bloom on February 14, 2013

There was quite a lot of discussion on Twitter and in the blogosphere earlier this week about a major payroll project disaster plaguing the State of California government.  That discussion broadened to include tales of more failed payroll as well as ERP and various other large-scale systems projects.  If you want to immerse yourself in tales of such disasters, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged California, GoAnimate, Life's Challenges, Looking Back/Looking Forward, payroll, Ruminations, sap, SAP AG

Reprise: Choices, Compromises, Serendipity and Sh#t

Reprise: Choices, Compromises, Serendipity and Sh#t

By Naomi Bloom on December 4, 2012

Reflecting on what might make a great list of 2013 predictions — beyond those I’ll be discussing next week on my first videocast – I realized that I’d either be repeating a list of hot topics with which you’re already familiar or showing my ignorance (it’s getting worse not better with the explosion of relevant knowledge).  So, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Aging, Friendship, Life's Challenges, Reflections On Life

Reflections On A Long Career — Part IV — Summing Up

Reflections On A Long Career — Part IV — Summing Up

By Naomi Bloom on May 29, 2012

The Message Is Clear! In the first three posts of this series, here, here and here, I reflected on various aspects of building and sustaining a long and successful career.  Now it’s time to sum up the lessons of my own career, a long professional run for which I’m truly grateful. There’s been a huge portion of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Aging, Employment, HRM, Human resource management, Life's Challenges, linkedin, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Professional development, Ruminations, Twitter

Making My Peace With Not Knowing / Following / Connecting / Clicking Through Etc.

Making My Peace With Not Knowing / Following / Connecting / Clicking Through Etc.

By Naomi Bloom on April 9, 2012

As a toddler, I took great pride in being able to rattle off the names of all the Kittredges (Barry, Bobby, Eddy, Georgie, Chucky, Sydney, Al, Ralph and Adele), a large family who lived across from us on Somerset Street.  Later, it was important to me to have read every Nancy Drew mystery then every Agatha Christie then […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Life's Challenges, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Ruminations, Social Technology | 1 Response

Reflections On A Long Career — Part III — The Network Effect

Reflections On A Long Career — Part III — The Network Effect

By Naomi Bloom on March 16, 2012

Tales Of The Mighty Rolodex It always was and always will be about the power of the network.  It really does “take a village,” the mutual support we derive from friends, family and colleagues, not only to raise our children but also to help us every step of the way through life.  We owe so much to those from […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Aging, Friendship, Life's Challenges, Looking Back/Looking Forward, network effect, Rolodex, Ruminations

Reflections On A Long Career — Part II — My Heroes

Reflections On A Long Career — Part II — My Heroes

By Naomi Bloom on February 5, 2012

Larry Seidel’s Other Interests My first post in this series was about what we can do to prepare for and sustain a long, productive and satisfying career.  In this post, I’d like to give credit — and there’s a lot to give — to the people who helped shaped the professional I became.  We should all be […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Aging, Life's Challenges, Looking Back/Looking Forward, Ruminations | 3 Responses

Reflections On A Long Career — Part I

Reflections On A Long Career — Part I

By Naomi Bloom on January 23, 2012

“If I could turn back time” I’m a year older than Cher, and we would both “turn back time” if we could.  Who wouldn’t?  We also share having had a very long career — if nothing else — and mine is still in high gear.   But it’s about what it takes to develop and sustain a long […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Aging, Change Management, KSAOCs, Life's Challenges, Looking Back/Looking Forward | 4 Responses

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