eisworks.net

the advances of technologies has brought about a spacious “learning arena” for all of us.

finding solutions can prop you up to a lot of “literatures” which you may need to read and learn in order to even begin the progress of achieving the start off point.

when you have deduced everything and be ready for the take-off, you may then get to “learn” the specifics of your chosen solution that it will then still be a “gargantuan” learning task to handle… that even before you start, you are already drained out and maybe thinking of another way to handle the problem.

that was the past…

in today’s software development designs, most software developers has been eased with the burden of the complexity of having to define each and every move that their users has to learn… that is the fruit of the advent of “graphic user interface” known as the GUI which makes everything an intuitive interaction with their software users.

intuitive designs as well has seen a leap with the proliferation of useable technologies with almost the same facelifts.  “phone sets” that behaves the same way but was actually designed by different manufacturers is a big “helping hand” in these technology advances.

15 years ago, you read a manual before using your handphone, now, it is like you just need to really “plug and play” with it.

google and yahoo has also mastered the magic of “loose coupling” that you will not even notice that you have been using a lot of “searching” and “browsing” even before you know that your requirements are just in front of you and for the taking.

how many will remember that you needed to type that www.yahoo.com and feel intimidated by it? as to what will be in it?

the software arena is in a stage of advanced “maturity” that simplification strategies on the part of software developers is a must-have and the thrust of each undertakings.

the vagueness of “user-friendly” software tag is now becoming passe since this one is relative to the person who is speaking and guided by some self-serving outlook.

how many times have you seen a system that is supposed to be user-friendly to your colleague and not to you?  it may be that, your colleague has been using the same for a long time and has become a “mouth-piece” for that software unknowingly.

it may happen on a “reverse”, that you are the one who is familiar with the design and he or she may not be.

but as mentioned earlier, the maturity of “technological designs” is now in some kind of wonderful advances.

when you need to calibrate a software or hardware design, try to consider this feature and draw a parallel of your own.

— printer panels used to have a lot of buttons — eject, line feed, form feed, font selector, cancel and some more on… now, most have only one — “the power button to turn off or on”.

you dont even need a manual for that.

now, finding solution with a customized software development is all about pinning your direction towards the processes that you need to accomplish and simplifying the same.

if you would need a lot of learning to use your software solution, you may be in a wrong path and traversing the past. 

you may have to consider “software designs” that are patterned in a “plug and play schema” which can put you in an easy jump-start for your solutions and with intricate methods unseen but works hard behind the scene.

our time-tested AEP Concept is something close which you may want to look at and try for your software needs.

it has been said all the time … a customer is always right… that you would need to listen to the “voice of the customer”.

while this could be a good come-on sales pitch for somebody who is selling his wares, it completely eliminates innovation on the part of the service provider. 

the perfect foundation for establishing a “service-oriented company” is to come up with the best thinking manpower resources inside the “service orgranization”. 

no buts and ifs, aiming for a sale is not only about addressing the ”needy company”  with what they want to get on the surface, in a quicky, and to the minute detail that it is wished upon to be accomplished.

it must involve innovative thinking that is best delimited by an expertise that is not solely focused to the ”standard client-induced service definition”.

the service organization must not settle for some definitions that may sometimes be vague when spoken by a client who is more on the look-out for solutions, and not on the intricacy of the needed innovation that could otherwise be better done by the organization that is “outcome driven” — a better and wider range of solution approach than that of “wants-driven”

you can get to be limited by a “customer’s solution and result” just to get your services acceptable, sold-out and be judged as a “good business tool”. 

this usually settles the stage of your operation as “perfect fine-tunes” and “consumer-driven”… up until a recurrence of the same problem occurs or a hitch emanates from your solution.

when you are faced with a problem that has already been solved at the outset of the ”wants-oriented” approach, you may yet get to see that an “outcome-driven” methodology that looks at a solution at some point extended to some predictable fruition can be a better way of “solving” and servicing a problem.

this “outcome driven” methodology is best derived and evaluated from the mix of “old school expertise”, wide ranging experiences and unbiased “engineering” think-tanks.

but never really dodging the thrust of the customer’s solution, you may guide yourself with a more conservative version that goes like “customer is most of the time right, but not perfectly always…”

now, that “a customer is always right?”… it’s nice to hear it everytime, in the rigors of wheeling and dealing by a service provider towards a client who is in need of all the assurances… but the truth is, it is a sales pitch and just a mantra. 

come to think of it… working on a solution is not about seeking “who” is right, it is about “what” course of action is the best.

Anonymous
A man inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: “Wife wanted“.   Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: “You can have mine.“

handling business relationship is a tough act.

for a start, building trusts between each other must come naturally.  prelude to an engagement can make you to really act your best.  you may even have to check yourself against any inkling of pretentions. 

business relationship is almost like a “marriage” that it starts with selling and procurement or courting and engagement.

drawing from this parallel, you can deduce that for some instances, you may be inclined to “bluff” something in order to sell your wares or “pretend” to some extent in order to bargain for the cost.  anywhichway you do it, your sense of decency can govern you to behave in a way that is “most sincere and honest” which is perfectly the ingredient for a long-term association.

when you are facing a situation that is for “the better or the worse”, your decisions can define your true character by which the “parallel” in business relationship and marriage is totally different at crunch-time.

that is, you may endure and go financially flat and broke in a marriage but that is foolishly incorrect in a business relationship. in the same breadth, you can decisively change your partner in a business but it is unbecoming in a marriage. 

your judgment again would still be in your sense of decency augmented by your sense of fairness.  being in an alliance is not all for gain and profit, when you need to be just and  correct… you have to look at the values of genuine partnership, productive collaboration and mutual benefit.

your sense of responsibility should be focused on your mutual interests and this can bring about a better foundation not only for kinship but a fruitful by-product.

there is all these possibilities of “turning points” in both relationships and the worst reason for this is betrayal.

you may just have to consider that even if you have done and complemented  every single thing for your “partner”, some can really go sour or bitter for you.

in the end,  knowing that you have been fair enough, looking back at the loss is going to be a waste of your time.  you just have to believe the sayings — ”when a door is closed, another one will surely open.”

some things grind in a form that is vague, but it may just be your most awaited “blessing in disguise”.

people and opportunities can come and go, but your “sense of fair play” must always be calibrated to match your circumstance.  falling short of your partner’s expectation is a no-no, and doing your share in a relationship is a real work-in-progress.

have observed this kind of activity in our midst for the past 24 years and no doubt, the kind of understanding, righteousness and cause solely belongs to the one making the act.

i myself have my own way of defining what’s got to be a noble aspiration that should justify rebelling.

but in order to set some parameters, so as to come up with some kind of gauge on what’s got to be an unequivocal basis for such an act, we may define some unnegotiable grounds that should guarantee “righteousness” on the part of the “rebellious group”.

the act of rebellion itself is a high ground affair that connotes a dead end situation… so that the “unequivocal basis” must be real and not to be bargained off.

when you see more reasons to rebel than when you see more reason to depend y0ur position, you may just be barking at the deficiencies of others which is by no means a finger pointing-act that does not justify the act of rebelling… but should be a useful excercise towards an elective position.

reasons for a point of view also known as “idealism” is one point, the never ending saga of “communism” in our country gets to be some kind of spring board for the old mr. Sison… but as you would note, it is a valid cause since anybody just don’t have the right to trample on other people’s version of governance.

it’s a long story but even if you don’t see it as a noble one, killing the idea will not succeed easily on an ingrained belief, even if you suspect it to be self-serving especially on the top guys…

positioning that “unequivocal basis”…  the “unnegotiable grounds” can trigger someone to do the act… all in opposition to the established ways of the current administration, but the substance of such must really be about position, not those flimsy accusations that doubles as reasons. 

mr. Marcos was not ousted because of all those accusations against him, not even when Ninoy was killed… it was when his administration blatantly cheated Cory that he personified the devil in him all against us then.

it was the jig of ms. Oreta that did mr. Estrada.

so that, anybody in those times was willing to put his life on the line… their positions, on the very thresholds of one’s being, getting pushed back and awakened of an unacceptable wrong-doing on their very selves triggered the impulse.

it may be impressive to be vocalizing all your reason for rebellion, but if you can’t defend it like it is the single most important contention, it will be very hard to win.

winning a rebellion is a numbers game, but not the number of reasons but the number of hearts that you can convince in your “vaunted position”.

is there any special thing about GMA that she seems to be very hard to defeat? my guess is, she may actually be easy to be defeated, but her foes are just not better, if not worst.

did she cheat? you can ask mr. Lacson if he will allow himself to be cheated…

if you are afraid of him, you can ask ABS-CBN… if they will allow any evidence to be kept off public eyes that pertains to the cheating of mr. Garcillano.

these issues will never rest until you realize that nobody really believed she cheated… at least not in the fashion as depicted by the papers, and not as overwhelming as what could have been otherwise done if the other runners are the ones in the rein.

it can be spoken for the rest of our lives but the hard facts remain… she won in a three cornered fight and you can do your mathematics with that… you don’t even have to use your logic .

as for that “rebellion”? it may be hard to win against a working lady.  not when you are firing from your mouth, inside a luxurious pen and guided by an unseen head.

how many times can it be tried? the question and its possibility is just unthinkable… no more… please.

day to day, we are faced with different situations that requires different approaches.

sometimes, we have developed a certain habit or style that a large percentage of our actions are somehow patterned along the same route.

it is in a situation where you may have faced the same circumstance but a different set of people with odd culture that finding solution to a problem seems very hard to achieve.

of course, solutions will be the same strategically…  but keeping an eye on your approach is vital and identifying the source of problem is but the best key. 

the problem itself is almost all the time tangible but when you drill in more, you may find that even if you already have found the solution, preventing the reoccurrence of the problem is not achievable unless you have arrested the source.

playing along and letting go of some tolerable backlash is acceptable sometimes in order not to break the standard norm.  in this cases, you will have to really weigh the pros and cons into achieving the solution.

in almost all the times that i find myself immersed in a difficult situation, finding solutions best starts in defining first the source of the problem. not at the level of just reacting and stopping the plod of the problem.

persistent problems emanate from unchecked problem sources. if you can get to pinpoint and evaluate, there is a better chance that you may be able to avoid that rat’s nest.

planning for something, making it work and finally realizing your desired goal is a lot of hardwork, when you are alone. 

collaborating with a group, fine tuning each and everyone’s role, assessing suggestions and implementing the collective plan is somehow a better way, but if you are not able to address cohesion and unity amongst… you are bound to fail.

coaching is never effective without authority… players, the stubborn ones can always get into the way.

like in a project, having a “stone-walling” team mate can put a hold in the direction of the goal.

there would be times that persons of such character can act to “acknowledge” a concluded plan and when the time of reckoning comes, will play dumb as if every single detail of the plan was a misconception on his part.

truly, you may have anticipated such an act when you first met a person, but when you are working with limited authority, things are out of your hand but will be a blot in your capability.

you can think of all the common measures like “documentation of progress”, “issuance of memos”, “time-table and efficiency report” and the likes, but when you are facing  a person who is above in the hierarchy, things can really get stucked.

you can apply diplomatic approaches but there are just these type of people who are keen on doing their version of goal fishing or hunting but not so much on reaching out for it.

they equate every move of change to a threat in their respective turf.  the area of their “comfort zone” are enlarged or moderated based on their feeling of security.

there is no special formula for such kind of problem people but the very same as you would have thought about.  but you may add the “stone art” into it.

this procedure as i call it is a “broadcasted diplomatic and finite positioning approach” that you would have to apply at any significant stage of “project development evolution”.

and like any good managing formula, must be “written on the wall” with apt rigidity, thus the “stone” as i said and with an applicable dose of “diplomacy” and “behavioural art”.

you are bound to reveal and clarify each and every move that you are to undertake, with appropriate elaboration if necessary, and granting lesser and very calculated concessions to diversionary advances and disguised “best interests”… when your position is all-out in the open, it will give you an advantage into deciding to pull the plug when inevitable.  no surprises can help you for situations that is about “human-related”.

it could happen that the players in your team will be faint-hearted and worse, will be dealing more with human facets than the functional intricacy of an on-going project.

the worst that you can be in, is when you are held-down in a situation with no way to call out a decision just because you may come into a head-on collision with some lead players.

with a plan and direction that is well written on a “stone”… that everybody knows and understands… making your decisive move whether pushing out the baggage performers, opting to fast track, slow down or to a worst extent, re-designing can easily be absorbed by the team as a coherent step towards the goal.

the “stone art” is most applicable to any project development, it may be an added step… but in the end, this is going to give you an elbow room when the going gets rough and real tough.

anyway, who ever said that leading is easy? for extreme situations, rock-solid methodologies are most fitting.

it is never easy to look back at your mistakes, misfortunes and forgettable experiences.

reminiscing on one’s emotional triumphs, financial bonanzas and best decisions is much better.

but crossing over a chapter that is 2007 and going about your preparation into the year 2008 needs some good analysis of all your recollections, whether good or bad.

if you come to think of it, the bad ones can help more in making your list of what to pursue as a change and could even prop you up for the better on things that concern your good experiences.

anywhichway, if you take stock of your past, making your new year’s resolution is the easiest thing to do.

making a list of what habit to kick-out and which company to avoid is almost always what a resolution involves in general.

relative to this, creating a wish list is more exciting.  it will move you to cultivate your level of maturity, expertise and real inclinations.

on the higher grounds, it is called “corporate planning”.

doing it on a personal level is the same, the trick would still be the “stretch” that you need to apply on what you think is desirable and probable.

a two-fold stretch on quantifiable aspects like your income and half-fold drop on expenditures are the ideal standard that you may consider in establishing your pivot calculation.

for positions in a company or in a personal endeavor, making a leap one-step-up is almost ideal. two to three higher is an admirable bullish aspiration, but when you are dreaming of being at the top, that is something for a long-range plan which is at best a long shot in a one-year scope.  you may however place it in your “pipeline”.

material acquisitions are the by-product of your “income” wish list which by all means must be lined-up with “necessity, savings, simple pleasures and luxury”  as a guide for pecking-order.

whatever comes up on your “wish list”, the world will never go slow in favor of your tempo. 

going into the next is your call… you may just have to dream and go.

time flies, things do happen and events develop into some conclusions and at times into a limbo of indecision and more mess, and floats in eternal friction or uncertainty.

whatever comes up on any of our activity, it must have an end and the chapter after it, must be a bliss to bear.

when you think of a way that can help you face up to  anything, the solution could come from the way you were guided by your parents, mentors and peers.

you can even craft an action based on what has been your experience from the past with such similar encounters.

the best that i learned or heard is that of that “christian way”…  even better than the “golden rule” — do unto others what you want others do unto you…

or the “patience” mantra of waiting the course of nature to take its place…

closing into conclusion or putting a stop to a friction is never easy but sustaining the bliss after the “end” is the real hard part.

that is where the gospel of — “love your enemies”… “to the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well” — works so well.

i would say that i have not been an avid practitioner of the “christian way” but i do observe it a bit as a matter of being a catholic. at the outset, it feels ridiculously unfair of your being that you would allow yourself to be at the bottom of the pile, so to speak.

but the realm is you cannot really live in bliss if you have enemy, and loving your enemy is the solution pathway to a conflict.

and perhaps, the most telling is the phrase — ”to what credit is that to you, even sinners love those who love them”.

it is never really hard to show your affection towards your relatives or loved ones, and that’s a given… and you can take no special mention for that.

but when you extend your affection to the ones who dont care for you, that’s living the christian way… and if you don’t want to show your religious antenna, you can pass it off as the “civic minded” manner. anywhichway you call it, it would surely result into a bit of a bliss for your environment, your relationships.

you may not get to achieve the “bliss” since not everybody will do the same way, but knowing that on your end, you have been a “civic-minded christian” enough… it may rub somehow on the others around you.

as i have said, achieving a thing could be very hard, but sustaining it, is much harder, wherein you will have to really exert more substantial effort.

but as an added attribute in living like the underdog… you may just have to comfort yourself of the thought that “the power lies not in the one who wields it, but the one who has control over such.”

by: Helen Keller (page 49-Get Clients NOW)

Security is mostly a superstition.  Life is either a daring adventure or nothing… Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.