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Re-engineering the software development
process – how ridiculous! There are no end of perfectly
good development methods and tools out there to do the job. Who
needs another?”Yes, we can see where you are coming from,
and in your context, we agree. But CREATIV isn’t a run of
the mill software development toolkit. It has re-engineered the
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You are at your desk, with today’s
Number One Problem beating on your door, and this supplier wants
you to sign off this Requirements document for the new system.
There are several problems: he promised this a month ago; it’s
two inches thick; you don’t have time for it; and when you
tried flicking through it, you couldn’t understand a word
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Here you are, a successful business
under you control and expanding to meet your customers needs.
Your product is in demand and you rely on technology to provide
exactly what your customers want. Your product is not one that
you can mass-produce: it relies on flexibility in its manufacture.
No two orders are identical, even from the same customer. Now
you have a problem... |
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You’re a self-made man or
woman. Proud of what you have achieved over the last ten years.
In touch with your customers and their needs – until now.
Like all growing businesses, yours is at a critical size at which
the person at the top cannot any longer know everything that is
going on. There are staff in Production whose names you don’t
know; there are places downstairs that you found last week and
only by chance! And the sales team keep on about not being able
to manage the customers any more... |
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I am sure you could all answer
this question rather promptly and would have a whole set of reasons
why! However have you taken a look at who may be driving your
business, a department or team? What experience do they have?
How much training have they had? Did they just arrive at this
point because they were at the right place at the right time?
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Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) has become very important to many companies in the last
few years. One element of the mix of services provided by CRM
deals with Customer Complaints. |
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This is a question many have been
asking with regards to RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) the
new technology to be stirring interest in many industries and
companies around the world. Well first of all it is not new technology
but new versions of a technology that is over 50 years old. |
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Have you ever stopped to wonder
just how many coupons are being sent around the globe every year?
The figure for the UK alone is in excess of 5 billion a year!
That is a lot of paper and there is currently little measure of
how they are being redeemed and how many are ineffective and not
hitting the right target at the right time. |
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As we hear words like recession,
economic slow down, negative sales growth and other such phrases
that begin to make us feel uneasy, it is only to easy to look
for gloom and doom and expect the worst to happen. At such times
companies often look for cost reductions and savings, which can
often fuel ideas of staff redundancies, reduction of spending
and making do with old systems and equipment and the halting of
training and other staff growth activities. |
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There have been many times when
I am sure you will have wished the wire was longer or the goods
that you were bringing to a central point were lighter as you
could not take the computer (that drives all of our lives) to
your point of activity. |
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This is a question every business
owner or manager should be asking. At the beginning of the company,
department or project there was a clear perspective on where you
were going and what you wanted to achieve. It was all easily definable,
there was often a clean slate and there were certainly no personalities
involved. However as time goes on the amount that has to be done
seems to increase... |
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This is a question I am sure many
of you have had the Finance Director ask and perhaps thought that
the answer was no. So think again often old and updated equipment
may well actually have a value as there are companies who have
an installed base of now obsolete equipment and need some for
spares and support of their installed base... |
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To borrow a phrase from a well-known
author (and modify it a bit!) however the question is still a
very valid one that many companies and organisations are asking
themselves. At PDT Ltd we believe that our consultants can brig
a lot more than a fresh pair of eyes and a cost on the balance
sheet to your company. |
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Although barcodes have been around
for at least 35 years now there are still many people and companies
that get it wrong and end up costing themselves larges amounts
of money through silly mistakes that could have been avoided.
Read how you can simply learn from the mistakes of others and
get it right first time. |
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How often have you heard that phrase
or ones something similar all inviting you to enter the trading
arena and cut costs in order to get the project to fly. How often
do we know that in order to cut the costs we will in fact sabotage
many a project and set it on a road for disaster in the future.
This is something we come across all the time and are succeeding
to turn many decisions around to deliver a project that does work
according to a correct specification and is delivered on time. |
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This is a question many companies
are asking themselves in this ever growing and competitive market
place. “Is my barcode scanner better in performance that
the main rivals?” “Does my label printer outperform
my competitors products?” and “Will my products still
be going when the other suppliers pr... |
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Too many software projects fail
- more than 80%. By "fail", I mean those projects that
either deliver nothing and are cancelled after fruitless spending
or those that deliver only a greatly reduced functionality and/or
exceed their timescale and cost. |
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Do barcodes turn you cold? Do you
know your EAN from your UPC? Can you tell the difference between
a Code 128 and an EAN-128? These and many more questions are often
asked about a subject that few really know much about. Many may
say does it matter do I need to know? Others may ask is it really
important can't we get on with the exciting technology? .... |
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The specification debate has
raged for some time. Many methodologies have been proposed and
many companies formed to service the users of these methodologies.
Of primary importance in the UK in the last twenty years has
been the development of Structured Systems Analysis and Design
Met..... |
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Precision Design
Technology (PDT) Ltd. has a view of their place in the world
and on the services they can provide you. To help give you a
similar perspective perhaps we should ask you to recall the
day you decided to start your business, project or department.... |
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Do you
know how your business operates? Many managers don't! Half of
the Managers in UK industry do not know the details of the processes
their businesses rely upon! Before you disagree too violently,
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