I was listening to this old NPR interview of one of my business heroes Yvon Chouinard The focus of the interview is on how Patagonia wants you to buy less, so they create a high quality lifetime product with replaceable parts. You don’t need to continue to buy from them year after year. Because of the high quality and ...

Software solutions come in all shapes and sizes. Picking the right one involves time and effort to analyze all of the options. In healthcare, software performs many functions, from clinical to business applications. You want all of the software tools that you use to work well together, ideally sharing data seamlessly. In this post, we discuss a couple of software purchasing strategies aimed ...

How do you plan and implement a software project in Healthcare? You want to get a project fully implemented in the fastest way possible without cutting corners and overrunning the cost, which is difficult to achieve. Our experience includes many years of consulting on enterprise software projects for a variety of industries. In this time we have seen a technique that is very useful but not ...

Microsoft turns 45 years old on April 4th. It is one of the older generation big tech companies, a fierce competitor with a sometimes contentious relationship with antitrust laws.

They have been a leading software company with many business offerings, including business software, web browsers, and video games. Microsoft has been the de facto source of business software tools. In a way, ...

In a perfect world, all software used by clinicians would help provide better patient care while improving workflows. But that is not always the case. Sometimes software obstructs the workflow. If a task takes too long or can be done more easily outside of the system, people will develop workarounds. The workarounds, over time, become part of the way things are done and a true solution ...