October 2006 Boomer Bulletin
Boomer Consulting is committed to offering innovative and relevant instruction as a valuable resource for our readers. Each month we feature industry leaders selected from our Boomer Technology Circles™.
Our contributing authors for September are Sue Groszkiewicz and Randy S. Gold. Sue is the Chief Operating Officer for Gifford, Hillegass & Ingwersen, LLP (GH&I). Randy is Principal and Chief Operating Officer for Aarons Grant and Habif, LLC. We hope you enjoy reading the insights of both authors.
Problem Solving and Looking into the Future
October 3 | Sue Groszkiewicz
The other day I had lunch with a good friend from the past. We worked together when we first started our careers in public accounting—more than 20 years ago! Public accounting was very different than it is today. She left the field after the Arthur Andersen debacle, and I stayed—choosing though to switch to the practice management side.
Outsourcing Your Information Technology Support – Why or Why Not?
October 3 | Randy S. Gold – Principal and Chief Operating Officer Aarons, Grant & Habif, LLC
Outsourcing, offshoring, subcontracting—call it what you will, but in today's business world it is a way of life. Some might even say that outsourcing is a necessity. Let's face it; we make outsourcing decisions every day.
Don't Miss The Performance3™ Management Program
October 3 | Sandra L. Wiley, COO and Senior Consultant
Retention is the key to success in our industry! The Performance3™ Management Program will help you develop your best managers and, in turn, retain them.
Workflow Myths
October 2006
Workflow at its simplest is the movement of documents and tasks through a work process. The concept of workflow is not native to information technology; however, workflow is an integral part of document management and imaging. With this said, are your firm’s processes efficient, and do they take advantage of available technologies and team members’ skills?
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Book Review - From Good to Great
October 3 | by Jim Boomer, MBA, Senior Consultant
One of the leading issues in the accounting industry continues to be retention and attraction of quality people. After all, an organization is only as good as the people who make it up. While Jim Collin's Good to Great has been in the business section of book stores for a number of years, the concepts he covers are timeless. They are especially relevant to our industry as we continue to build teams that allow us to transform our firms from good organizations to great ones.
Using Software as a Service
October 3 | by Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp, Interaction Developer
Over the past few years application service providers (ASPs) have been working to popularize a new application model, Software as a Service (SaaS). In this model, the business logic and data for an application are stored in a data center outside the office and are accessed via the Web, generally from a Web browser. This model has been gaining steam over time and has risen in popularity.
Federated Search – a golden promise to find what you are looking for?
October 10 | Eric Benson, Director of Interactive Communications
There are a number of “ideals” in the content management industry. In talking with vendors regarding our content management needs, I have heard terms like “content models” and “metadata classifications standards” in reference to building out solid ways to think about putting data in systems. What does that really mean? Basically what you need to know is what stuff do you save, where should you save it, and how do you get to it once it’s saved?