EDP Consulting

read moreThe company offered educational products and consulting & development services around a well-known company's product. To expand their capabilities, the founders realized that they needed to bring new software develoment resources on board and they needed assistance in selecting the right candidate and organizing and managing the development function. We were initially engaged to help them identify, interview, and set direction for the software engineer, which was quickly completed through our extensive network.

read moreThese are the kinds of problems we've successfully dealt with in the past and we can do it again. Our experience tells us that every business is unique. Your people are unique, the way you differentiate your business is unique, your processes are unique, and your needs are unique. There are, however, common threads to every business. Based on those common threads, we can tailor our general approaches to fit the unique needs of your business and your situation. Endra sings: "Where were they going without ever knowing the way?"

read moreOK, you say. What do you mean 'Technology Turnaround'?I've got servers crashing, unhappy business users, a project that just can't seem to get finished. My Information Technology group is the Rodney Dangerfield of the company - they "just can't get no respect." I've spent good money on hardware, software and people, but things aren't getting done fast enough or well enough. What you'd really like to see is satisfied users, stable systems, completed projects, quality results. It seems easy on the surface - after all, hasn't information technology advanced a thousand-fold in just a few short years?

read moreThe following are books/articles that I have found useful over the years -- it's a rather eclectic list. I hope you find them useful, too. If that piques your interest, then this book is for you. It's really a collection of connected essays (you can read any chapter pretty much stand-alone) on various topics of leadership. As DePree says, the art of leadership is about "liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way." DePree's company, Herman-Miller (founded by his father in 1923) pioneered many of the management approaches that we take for granted today.