Business Quest

Welcome to everyday adventures in my business life, including thoughts and feelings about a world within which all things are connected. This QUEST is a JOURNEY to share knowledge, a JUNKET to share enjoyment, and often times simply an OUTING among old friends and new acquaintances.

About Me

My Photo
Name:
Location: Hockessin, Delaware, United States

To Myers-Briggs I'm an INTJ on the cusp of an E. A war-orphan, I was raised an only child by my mother. Born into a family of engineers and inventors, I naturally gravitated to engineering; model railroading at age 5. By the time I left high school the railroad was well automated (back when mechanical relays and vacuum tubes prevailed.) Home was Gary, Indiana and while attending Purdue University I majored in Electrical Engineering, worked part-time and summers as a motor inspector at the Inland Steel 80" Hot Strip, where I found the air conditioning requirement of early automation equipment to be personally beneficial. I joined the DuPont Corporation as a Design Engineer and moved to Waynesboro, VA. (where in 1969 I automated the 1929 Acetate Chemical process using a Digital Equipment PDP 8E computer supervising five PDP14 industrial controllers -- the computer was programmed using a Teletype machine and paper tape!) I also had the pleasure of an assignment in Londonderry NI in 1973 followed by a move to Charleston, SC in 1976 to construct a fully automated polyester fiber facility (complete with industrial robots). But enough about me...

Friday, October 14, 2005

Thoughts of the Day

I hope everyone did well on the midterm exam. I know I gave it MY best shot! I'm obviously looking forward to our interaction during the balance of the semester.

I've reviewed the Chapter 14 presentation, have bookmarked "Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design" and have printed out copies of the referenced IBM guide and guidelines as well as the references in the two student presentations. I'm reading through these materials to maintain alignment with you as the course proceeds.

A Google Blog search found this "Business Quest" site so I am pleased to see that I'm now "searchable" or as the phrase appears to have evolved, "Googleable". I'm intending to post something each day (or so) that is relevant to the American SecuriComm marketing effort or to web design or content ideas that I run across. I hope you find this information helpful to you.

Any questions can certainly be emailed to me, or entered as comments to ANY post on this blog (I scan ALL posts for additional comments, so if you just want to comment to my most recent post, even if the comment is not relevant to that specific post, I'll see it and respond.)

A word of caution: There is a practical human response rule that "work expands to fill the time allotted", I know it all too well. (I have confirmed this rule with my personal college and business life proclivities and my previous and recent experience with two BUAD444 teams!) I will attempt but CANNOT guarantee immediate response to questions for the following reasons:

  • Business installations, trade shows, customer visits and just the press of everyday work WILL interfere with the time I would love to devote to responses. Things are manageable now, but if an emergency were to arise during the final stage of this course, you could find me not available at all!
  • From a practical standpoint, I can handle the trickling of questions and discussions if they come in over time as it is easy to then work my responses into my other commitments, but a last minute deluge of questions and discussions may prove personally overwhelming and impossible to handle; this will result in a distinct advantage to those teams who ask early and often and to the detriment of those teams who hesitate or delay. I don't want anyone to suffer, I want us all to enjoy the experience!

Remember I'm in this with you, I'm not judging or grading, I just wish you to be the best you can be and for us all to enjoy an entertaining and educational experience.

posted by George | 2:45 PM

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home