Archive for January, 2011
Lancet Makes a Splash at MicroStrategy World 2011
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This week, most of the office was at the MicroStrategy show in Las Vegas showcasing our work and meeting with clients. It was very quiet at the office and slow going to start the week. I had some light project work to keep me busy until I started getting flooded with work coming from the [...]
Building Relationships With My Co-Workers
In the last weeks, I have been becoming much more independent with my position and rarely need to ask for help with my tasks and any requests that come in. I finally feel like I own the things I have been assigned regarding my daily and weekly assignments. I understand the company’s processes and have [...]
40 iPads and endless possibilities
Recently, Lancet appeared in a MinnPost.com article about our iPad revolution. You can read it here. We continue to find new and innovative ways to use the technology to make us more productive. But, Lancet isn’t the only ones. The iPad continues to garner a lot of attention, and this week, in an article entitled [...]
Getting Situated With Lancet
The first week of my job was a lot to handle. There is a great deal of information to absorb in a short amount of time, but everyone is very helpful when I have questions. I spent most of the week meeting everybody that’s working on-site and training in on the systems and methods used [...]
What Does Failed Mean?
There was a LinkedIn discussion posted a few weeks back asking why BI deployments so often failed. After a number of comments on things like “poor requirements” and “lack of project management” I had to chime in, after all, I have never really seen a BI deployment fail because my project manager missed the deadline, [...]
My First Impression of Lancet
I didn’t know exactly what to expect going into the job; the interview process was interesting and fun and everyone seemed very nice and helpful, but I didn’t know how the actual job would compare to the interviews and my ideas of what I would be doing. Day one came with all the expected paperwork [...]