WordPress in big corporations

Listen this week that a big Spanish company has in their IT road map WordPress as a platform for content management is not a surprise to me, the surprise is that there are still few big companies that are still not doing it. Open source adoption continues and big organizations are understanding that the long … Read more

Performance reviews

I have an easy approach: define clear goals and let them to go for it with their personalities and personal way to lead. I just work as facilitator removing hurdles and explaining the changes of the rules of the game (company priorities, procedures…). You should easily measure the performance of the goals, they should be … Read more

Sosiego en la penunbra

Este libro de poesía, escrito por mi tía Rosa, lo estuve leyendo poco a poco durante las noches. Muchos recuerdos y pensamientos en cada una de las líneas del libro. Libro dedicado que guardo con alegría en la estantería de casa.

El plan revolucionario

Este libro de nutrición rompe con muchos dogmas adquiridos por la sociedad occidental de nuestros tiempos. Habla sobre como mirar la alimentación como una parte más de nuestra vida, recordarnos de donde venimos y como el marketing nos ha cambiado los hábitos, revisar cada cosa buena y mala que una acción tiene sobre tu cuerpo, … Read more

Bank Transformation Toolkit

This framework is used for the major banks to enable the different channels that banks use to have: internal, web, mobile, ATM, … The old name of the product was: WSBCC-WebSphere Business Components Composer. I understand why they have changed the name of the product to BTT. In reality this Websphere component can be used … Read more

Innovation is hard thing

Edison’s electric light did not come about from the continuous improvement of the candles. ~ Oren Harari Innovation is a hard and continuous frustrating job. Your mind has to fight every day against the unknown. People says “oh wow, you work on an innovation project, that’s cool !”, but they really do not always understand … Read more

Diario de invierno

Con Javier en casa y el resto del jaleo, es complicado sacar tiempo para leer. Dormir es una necesidad básica de la que me cuesta prescindir. Eso si, en esta semana de diciembre con viajes a Madrid y Barcelona, me dio tiempo a leer este diario lleno de reflexiones y anécdotas.

Stock decisions I did not take

This is a list of events and potential actions I didn’t take, and that I want to remember: Event: Trump won the USA election Action not taken: Buy Goldman Sachs stock. Result in 3 months: stock from 185$ to 250$. Chemours splitted from DuPont, Nelson Petz after Kraft split he invested in Mondelez. Action not … Read more