February 2011 - joapen projects

Judge people by their feet, not their mouth

February 28, 2011 by joapen

3M chief warns Obama over business regulation. George Buckley, chief executive and chairman of 3M: “judge people by their feet, not their mouth” http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd9b4100-429b-11e0-8b34-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058#axzz1FFSfnQ3Y Regulation on the chemical industry is business as usual. Depending of the type of measure, there are companies agreed with those initiatives, there are others than no. For those they reject … Read more

Creating a value chain through the needs

February 27, 2011 by joapen

Client has needs, the most important thing is detect the ones that they really are willing to invest on them. For sure I have not that all that information. But there are ways to work on this. If you get the 100% of these “needs”, the client is aware of some of them, but there … Read more

Help others sometimes has counterproductive effects

February 27, 2011 by joapen

I manage different teams and for me it’s essential to understand the way the things happens on each project or service. The reason is easy, later I have to go to the client and manage situations in the right way. To be in front of the client, understand the situation and be able to provide … Read more

Business Intelligence Site in SharePoint 2010

May 4, 2021February 22, 2011 by joapen

The BI site in SharePoint 2010 provides you reports, monitor key performance indicators and allows you to create dashboards that provide a consolidated view of business data. The business problem that my client requests me is to allow the end-user to provide feedback to the SQL database. There are about 50 fields that are updated … Read more

Smoke Computing?

February 18, 2011 by joapen

Cloud computing? smoke computing? Take care, there are so much people selling smoke computing out there.

Danish EPA surveys chemicals in cleaning products

February 14, 2011 by joapen

The consequences of the Reach data analysis is starting to have benefits on the European citicens: The Danish Environmental Protection Agency has published a survey of chemical substances in cleaning products for ovens, cookers and ceramic cooktops. The study determined the ingredients of 21 products and further analysed 14 to measure the level of organic … Read more

ECHA Summary of Work Programme 2011

August 29, 2015February 14, 2011 by joapen

A summary of key objectives for 2011. ECHA key objectives: First, the Agency needs to publish online the information from REACH registrations and CLP notifi cations. It is an enormous task to make scientifi c information as accessible as possible. Second, ECHA will evaluate the quality of the data of at least 5% of the … Read more

The grand design

February 12, 2011 by joapen

By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. I have been so much time without reading a book like this. I have enjoyed it a lot. Next one, Sunset Park the last one of Paul Auster.

Aspose.Words for MS-Word

February 7, 2011 by joapen

Now I can read infinite proposals and project documents without losing my sight on kindle: http://www.aspose.com/community/files/69/free-microsoft-office-add-ins/aspose.words-for-microsoft-word/entry194468.aspx (Ellmau, Austria)