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One of Steve McCoy's best known traits is that of being an excellent communicator and teacher.  As we look at the challenges of technology-oriented businesses, the need to ensure that everyone is "on the same page" can be critical to the success of projects and product development and the ability to educate and to lead others has always been at the top of Steve's skills.

The following items represent just a very few samples of original material prepared by McCoy for business planning, staff training, and strategy development.  These items hit on some topics that are somewhat unique, in their nature.  While the presentations (in ".pdf" form) are certainly not complete without Mr. McCoy's commentary, it is hoped that they demonstrate some interesting ways to "think" about these types of problems.  With such a broad background, he can assist your business in numerous ways in "thinking through" many similar challenges.  Click on any of the document titles to access a ".pdf" (Acrobat) version of the presentation.


 

Creating a Technology "Vision" - In his roles as a Technology Strategist, McCoy has faced many different organizations that wrestle with the concepts of doing strategic planning for technical organizations or businesses that are very dependent on technology.  As a discipline, "Technology Strategy" is still in its' infancy in many respects and is often the reflection of one or two people rather than a carefully considered set of processes.  This presentation does not pretend to offer a comprehensive solution to the idea of technology strategy, but does present some important considerations that you'll want to review with regard to some basic training for the topic and specifically offers some guidance on the idea of developing a real "Vision" for where you want your technology to go and why.  If you would like to contact Steve McCoy for additional discussion or consultation on the topics, he'd love to hear from you.  Having refined some of the approaches in the past, he is also available for facilitation of sessions on the topic of "technology  strategy".   Email  trmccoyx@cox.net  or call +1(402)598-5153.  

The "Yellow Pad" Problem Solving Method - Faced with his own frustrations of being responsible for critical computer systems early in his career, McCoy developed a set of rules that he used for himself to follow in solving technical problems.  In moving into management over time, he felt that "debugging skills" were critical to the organizations that he led, but found little to be available to assist in training folks on the topic.  Being a "keep it simple.." person, this presentation was intended to bring the old "checklist" mentality to the art of solving highly technical problems.  This presentation also has served as the basis for Mr. McCoy's first book on technical problem solving techniques planned for publication later in 2010.

Good, Fast, Cheap! Pick Two - When a former boss, whom he respected greatly, used this catch phrase in a meeting with some demanding management; Steve McCoy took it to heart.  As one that believes strongly in breaking complex problems down into workable pieces, it made great sense.  When another colleague made a conflicting statement that "there must be a way to do all three", McCoy took that as a challenge to explain what the underlying issues are.  This presentation provides a basis for conversation on setting priorities and understanding how these three delivery characteristics:  (1) Quality, (2) Time to Market, and (3) Cost, must all be considered in a business delivery of products or services.  It's not about sacrificing one over another, but about planning and strategy in your business or organizational responsibilities.

Reporting vs. Analytics: Roles of Information Delivery - Recently, just about every publication on technology or business management has been including information on, Analytics, or Business Intelligence, or Data Mining.  This is great example of cycles that we seem to go through where it takes careful consideration to understand the difference between the HYPE versus the HOPE of business tools, practices, and policies.  This presentation offers considerations for business to evaluate in defining the role and function of more standard "reporting" versus the use of much more complicated "analytics".  Mr. McCoy believes that is critial to be clear in understanding these differences when determining how you run your own business and what you provide to customers..



Hot topics and reading recommendations regarding-technology. (News "tidbits")

- The Open Group
- TOGAF
- ITIL Information
- Project Management Institute (PMP info)
- American Society for Quality (six-sigma info)
- Microsoft
- IBM
- LINUX information
- TCP/IP (Internet Protocol Suite)
- Data Storage Topics
- Basics of Analytics


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