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What Gets My Juices Going

• When someone says, "That's not possible" without conducting the basic research to know if what they are saying is true.
• When technology is made increasingly less stable every month due to critical security patches. I was in the room ten years ago when one software company declared secure sandboxes stupid and announced a future vision where any process on the Internet would be able to control any process on a computer. Not smart.
• When a company says, "Profit will be lower due to economic conditions beyond our control" without performing a simple inventory of how economic conditions could be exploited to improve profit.
• When a company's service is terrible and the company hasn't the expertise to monitor or improve service quality.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR, Warren Jones
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CV in Brief / Speaker's Bio

Warren currently serves as Chief Information Officer for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. In thirteen years with the legal industry, he has led technology modernization efforts and systems mergers for two of the world’s largest firms. 



A life long technologist, business scientist and historian, Warren has developed strategies for Knowledge Portfolio Management, Profit Design, Minimum Computational Requirement, Service Design and Information Infrastructure design. His team at Pillsbury is currently completing a project combining X86 processing with mainframe design to achieve ultra high density computer virtualization.



Warren previously served as a Cryptologist with the Department of Defense, where he advanced ‘least cost routing’ and graphical network mapping with the design of the TSM global network monitoring system. He held rank of Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. 



Early technology accomplishments included internships at Bell Laboratories and RCA Laboratories, software applications including the CPM word processor JWord, the MS-DOS graphical Project Management tool vProject, an Object Oriented suite of Client Server applications for Defense Logistics organizations, the enterprise browser WorkGroup Desktop, and IJNews, the first implementation of the news aggregation format later used by Google News.

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General Notes

I use a portion of this site (now called Business Science) as my personal business school in a box**. Business is very complicated and I've struggled to keep just my notes organized over the years. I think every C Level needs to understand the tight bond between profit, service quality and technology, but in coming up the technology track, I've been disappointed with the published text. It rarely goes beyond a FedEx case study.

Since an introductory conversation with Mike Sikora in '94, I've kept up a steady regimen of reading and note taking. Since then, I've compiled about two gigabytes on the broad topics on business, service and technology. Each month I digest what I can here.

A few of my "research" or digest topics include: Knowledge Portfolio Management, Profit Forms, Minimum Computational Requirement, Service Design, Information Infrastructure Design, and X86 Mainframe Design.

You can contact me at this e-mail address warren@wjones.com.


** If you Google business school in a box, this site may still appear in first page results.

© 2006, 2007 Warren Jones