Defects and Cost Control

The graphic below tries to show that there is a cost associated with poor quality. The concept is: If you have poor quality you have to develop processes and systems and expend resources to provide quality control. By reducing the number of defects produced by a process you free up the resources involved in oversight … Read more

Move to Seville

We have been looking for location alternatives for balancing professional and personal live. There were three options on the paper I did on March with a clear priority. Finally the third option is the only realistic option, and despite it was the third one on the list, I’m more happy to have this one than … Read more

Unrealistic requests

Sometimes I receive weird requests demanding a lot of different information related to something related to my duties, but that are special requests that are out of the standard reporting rules. These requests have some of these features: They are not linked with any major initiative, program or business standard process. The delivery date is … Read more

La Batalla de Somiedo

Primera edición de esta carrera de montaña que transcurrió entre el Alto de la Farrapona y Pola de Somiedo. 22 kms de subidas y muchas bajadas por un lugar increible. Teniendo en cuenta como he estado estos últimos meses, en los cuales no he podido apenas salir a correr, tuve muy buenas sensaciones, yendo de … Read more

Which group do you belong to?

Today I read this quote, and by some reasons it has not been a good day to read it: “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to  be in the first group; there is less competition there.”

Migrating Lotus Notes Apps on the Cloud with Force.com

Here a tutorial video of 16 minutesthat is so helpful to understand this migration process. The steps for moving the application are: Re-create data model Create Forms Move data Create Workflow Create complex business logic For step #3, they propose 3 tools Apex Data Loader (through CVS conversion) Cloud Converter (LN, Access, Oracle) Detachlt (focused … Read more

SAP Business ByDesign

I have had the opportunity during these last weeks to work on a proposal around this solution. This solution is the cloud based ERP for mid-size market, apparently in competition with MS-Dynamics AX solution. Some aspects I would like to remind are: 1.- The Business by Design Configurator tool, http://www.sapconfigurator.com/sapcfg/build/index.html?cntry=de2&lang=en&a=ByD&campaign=CRM-XK10-DES-DEFCONFIG The tool is very intuitive … Read more

ROIC & WACC

Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) A calculation of a company’s cost of capital in which every source of capital is weighted in proportion to how much capital it contributes to the company. For example, if 75% of a company’s capital comes from stock and 25% comes from debt, measuring the cost of capital weights … Read more

Capabilities & Credibility

You have a sales catalogue, know people who perform some of these solutions and the people behind this delivery. But with respect your customer, do you have the necessary credibility? has your customer confidence on your acquired commitments? The capabilities of your company can be bad or good, but they will be there for a … Read more