BD&amp;C &#8211; Business Development &amp; Consulting

I’ve been receiving numerous messages and questions, mainly from those who are about to get interviewed for IT-related jobs, about the ways to answer and behave in cases when you absolutely do not know what to say. Well, everyone has these moments of ’emptiness’ in mind during a job interview.…

Digital Transformation in Business Operations Management

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As a foreword to this article, let me share a request that I seem to receive from our customers with regularity that requires special attention. “…our operation management system is limited to papers…, so we’ve been thinking about introducing an App integrated into a program/software available to clients on our…

What Use Can Logistics Companies Make of the AI and IoT Technology Today?

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Since the beginning of the new millennium, when technologies have become capable of replacing people in many complex, smart operations, more and more businesses realize the necessity to optimize their daily processes by digitalizing nearly every step in their performance. As I am focusing on logistics, I will give you a few…

Smart Technologies for Logistics Companies

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What Use Can Logistics Companies Make of the AI and IoT Technology Today? Since the beginning of the new millennium, when technologies have become capable of replacing people in many complex, smart operations, more and more businesses realize the necessity to optimize their daily processes by digitalizing nearly every step in their performance.…

Keeping Your Audience Engaged During a Training

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I found Anna in an empty connecting corridor between the two administrative buildings of the university. When she saw me, she threw herself on my shoulder and burst into tears. “I swear I did my best to prepare,” she sobbed. “I worked on that presentation all week after the previous…

Blowing on the Dice of Your Career

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Earlier today, I was searching through Linkedin.com articles of my colleagues and ran across a quote which is frequently attributed to Mark Twain and which I’d read years ago– “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you…

What Can Bring Rocketing Start-Ups to Failure

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You can’t give people more knowledge than they are willing to take. I came to this conclusion while working with university students years ago, and now I keep receiving validations to it every time I do coaching for IT start-ups. This note is about trying to understand why so many…

Knowledge Management: Yes or No?

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When I opened a presentation and started showing it to my young colleagues, I could see nothing but surprise in their eyes. Those eyes asked: “What the heck, why did she waste her time making that presentation for a video piece from Youtube, when she could simply watch the video…

Internships vs General Education

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The biggest benefit of internships is, beyond doubt, the opportunity of gaining valuable work experience along with learning the basics of a certain profession. Unlike learning from coursebooks or classroom-based education, one acquires professional knowledge plus skills, plus a bit of experience, all in one. Internship lets you explore your…

A Smile That Can Win a Job Interview…

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The video chat was not long: I needed an interpreter urgently, because the client was already waiting for my email proposal with a whole package of services. A good client, by the way, it would’ve been stupid to loose him. So, I didn’t have much time and I had to…