New education methods

Assisting to the Coursera course is giving me a good feedback about what can be done in the education area. The on-line education based on videos can be very productive. Today I watched a video, he was doing a practice, explaining how to identify markers for arguments, you can see him talking and at the … Read more

Coursera, new way to access to education

Education is changing, the way to obtain knowledge and access to courses continue changing very quickly. In my company I have access to a complete set of web courses and virtual sessions where different topics are reviewed and you can follow training programs composed by different courses. I enroll these courses and they provide me … Read more

Business & IT

One of the best things when you visit customers is that sometimes you have the opportunity to talk with them about things from different perspective, you just start making a comment about something related to business in the same way you do a comment about the weather, and suddenly the other reply you with a … Read more

Consulting on a Library, yesterday and today

When I studied, one of the activities to be done was to go to the library for studying, consulting, reading or other staff. Today there is a lot of study places and libraries that are full of people studying, but for consulting and investigating data the things have changed a lot. In the old times, … 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

Supply-Chain Operations Reference Model

SCOR is a process reference model is considered as the cross-industry de-facto standard diagnostic tool for supply chain management. It has been developed by the Supply-Chain Council (SCC). SCOR is a management tool, spanning from the supplier’s supplier to the customer’s customer. The model has been developed by the members of the Council on a … Read more

Building a SaaS model

We have a tool for contract management activities that implements our processes in a very good manner and that is aligned with our project management best practices. The issue with the tool is very easy, is on a legacy environment. I have been working on an analysis in different directions: looking for market products, study … Read more

Lessons learned, SAP Technical upgrade assessment

This assessment has been a very accurate exercise for defining the right approach for the technical upgrade, the reasons? Our customer wants to save money on the project. They want to understand how much can be saved in terms of infrastructure investment. They want to fit the solution with their SAP environment, looking for potential … Read more

My toolkit

Toolkit I have been using these 2 last years is being different to the one used in the past. Now I work with: Pipeline file Risk & opportunity plan Agenda and contact list Forecast sheet for teams Rolling forecast sheet Capabilities sheet Control book by Asset Id and portfolio Allocations sheet P&L files Imagination Something … Read more