zurmo campaigns

We did last couple of weeks different e-mail campaigns with Zurmo and this is working very well in terms of feed backs we are receiving. The answers of the people let us classify their interest, and it helps us to improve the future communications. I miss integration with other applications, I hope this is coming … Read more

Avention integrated with SalesForce

Avention provides different corporate services related to information related to companies, which plays a significant role when working with customers, competition… They have Avention for SalesForce, which is integrated in your SalesForce environment and provides directly the data you want to capture. I love it!

Is this fraud?

After reading Flash Boys, I am interested about how the battle about “who is the faster one” evolves. This is what happens if you are a domestic trader: There are people that argues that the stock market is wrong, that it is not a fair market. There are other people which opinion is that this … Read more

AUTOSAR

The evolution of the automotive industry in the software world provoked the industrialization of the software principles; as result we have Autosar. AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) is a worldwide development partnership of vehicle manufacturers, suppliers and other companies from the electronics, semiconductor and software industry. The AUTOSAR standard will serve as a platform upon … Read more

Six Sigma Black Belt

After obtaining the Green Belt I continued working on the certification for Black Belt Six Sigma. The project delivered was very well appreciated, and there are so many details that were welcomed onto the analysis and definition stage. For those who want to work on this type of organization, my recommendation is to do it … Read more

Strava heat-map

When I discovered the global Strava heat map I was doing the same thing that the day I installed google earth on my computer: looking for places. The only difference was what to look for: some years ago it was NYC and now it’s the tourmalet road. So many things to investigate: Countries where adoption … Read more

Bikes and cities

I read an article about the the positive impact of the use of the bike in Paris after the people receive a monthly compensation for going to job by bike, promoting a set of behaviors that benefits the whole city. This made me think about bike adoption in cities. I´m becoming older and I am able … Read more

Banks and software companies

Imagine a bank that offers you a saving money application linked to your account, with different methods as kakebo, denying you to buy something if you surpassed the limit. They can organize that information, analyze it, build risk assessments on the market, sell the data… Whatever! Banks should start to compete in the digital arena … Read more

My improvement initiative is not moving

Plan a strategy is easy if you assume that all stakeholders are going to accept the changes immediately. But this never is the case; to remove these hurdles you have to plan how to face these change stoppers. Other factor to take in consideration is speed: In the same way that when developing software you … Read more