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What Do You Do For a Living?
I have a problem. I find it difficult to articulate what it is I do for a living. My job. My career. When I am asked, I sometimes feel the angst generated from the awkward scene from the imaginative 1989 film Say Anything where the protagonist, Lloyd Dobler, is asked...
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5 Minutes with Trilix Senior Software Developer Chris Giordano
With more than 10 years of experience in software development, Chris Giordano likes a good challenge. In fact, while others may worry about getting stumped, Chris knows there’s always a solution. At Trilix, Chris works with clients on developing custom solutions that...
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The Dangers of Manual Spreadsheets
A lot of the times, good ideas start small and grow. Usually this is good. Starting small can get the idea off the ground more quickly and often more cost effectively. But the danger is that sometimes you need to understand the growth before you start small as your...
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Trilix: Empowering Companies to Create Positive Change
I’ve been asked recently about why I decided to start my latest company, Trilix. And, I can honestly say, I started Trilix to solve a challenge I myself was facing as a business leader/owner—being saddled down by archaic, siloed and inefficient processes and systems....
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What Makes a Business Analyst Great
I have worked in the trenches as a business analyst for almost two decades now, and I have learned to look for one essential element in any potential analyst with whom I work: a willingness to ask what others might classify as "dumb" questions. There are a lot of...
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When Businesses Can’t Get Out of Their Own Way
Those of you who know me personally know that I like to move fast. That can mean embarking on a climbing expedition overseas; reading three books from the time my airplane ascends from Logan Airport until it lands at LAX; or having my hand in several passion projects...
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Process Problems and IT System Inadequacies
One of the things I enjoy about working with a variety of clients in different fields is learning about their business, how they execute work and why they perform work in a certain way. It is fascinating to me that no matter the business focus or industry, there are...
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Make One Change—Uncover a Masterpiece
I’ve always been a big fan of Pointillism, an art technique first used to describe the work of French artist Georges Seurat and later Paul Signac. Becoming largely popular in the 1880s, Pointillism describes a technique of Neo-Impressionism painting in which hundreds...
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When ‘Good Enough’ is Not Good Enough
“I don’t understand,” a friend of mine lamented during a recent conversation. “It is 2017, why can’t it just work?” He was referring to systems issues that he was experiencing at work and how exasperated he was that problems couldn’t be fixed or features added. After...
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