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The second study in a week just passed my desk indicating that while many companies have jumped on the big data bandwagon, they don't know exactly why.
I'll start with the most recent. BMC today released results from a survey that it conducted among its mainframe customers (more on the mainframe topic below).
Among the 1,200 respondents, 31 percent said that identifying the business use cases for big data is their primary challenge in managing their data. Other responses all revolved around costs and challenges with moving data to a centralized data warehouse.
The survey is in line with one released last week by Gartner that was reported on by Read Write. Gartner found that 56 percent of 720 respondents said determining how to get value from big data was in their top three biggest big data challenges. Forty-one percent listed defining strategy among their top three challenges.
Despite that, businesses are continuing to plan to invest in big data. Gartner found that 64 percent of the companies surveyed either invested in or planned to invest in big data technology this year, up from 58 percent last year.
Still, Gartner concluded that this year is still a year of experimentation and early deployment. Despite all the hype around big data, both studies should give the tech community pause. It's very early days yet in a market that is still shaking out.
Which brings me to the topic of mainframes. I'll take much of the BMC survey with a grain of salt. The report surveyed current mainframe users, so it's no surprise that the bulk of them (93 percent) said that mainframe is a long-term business strategy. The technology is expensive so many businesses are keen to make the investment work as long as possible.
That's not to say that mainframe technology is antiquated. A fair number of IT professionals I talk to tell me they still have mainframes and intend to keep using them. In fact, IDC found that in the second quarter IBM's System z mainframe saw its third consecutive quarter of growth and representing 9.8 percent of all server revenue in the quarter.
For some applications, they still make sense. It's just that mainframe technology tends to get buried in the migration toward cloud technology.
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iOS 7.0.2 was launched at the end of September, but a recently-revealed improvement in the mobile operating system shows that Apple quietly improved the burst camera mode on the iPhone 5s in iOS 7.0.2. iOS 7.0.2 was released to address a security issue with the lock screen in iOS 7. The current version of iOS is version 7.0.3, which also includes this new feature.
The update makes it easier for iPhone 5s users to choose between keeping every photograph taken in a burst shot sequence, or just keeping one favorite photograph out of the entire burst shot sequence. Before iOS 7.0.2, iOS would automatically save all of the photographs taken in burst mode to the Camera Roll even if users specified their favorites, which because of the high camera quality, could significantly impact storage space if the user didn't stay on top of deleting the unwanted results.
You can see the improved option via the screenshot set above, via MacRumors.
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Posted by Connie Moore on February 15, 2012
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I've been working on a big idea for several months. The genesis of that idea was an internal collaboration about the future of enterprise suites versus business process management suites (BPMS). We actually had a mock debate about the future of these two software categories and asked:
- Will enterprise suites, like CRM and ERP, dominate in 2015?
- Or will BPM suites come on strong by 2015 and displace them as the next-generation software platform for processes?
- Or will both types of suites sit somewhat uncomfortably within the same organization tackling different types of processes?
Interestingly, enterprise suites won in our mock debate (kudos to Paul Hamerman and Clay Richardson), but the BPMS advocates (Derek Miers and Craig Le Clair) definitely held their own. It's just that companies have such massive investments in SAP and Oracle (Siebel) that those software products are not going anywhere very fast. So that's how it will turn out in 2015: BPM suites will keep making bigger and bigger inroads, but they will fill in the spaces for "untamed processes" that big software packages can't touch. (For more on this topic, see Craig's "Stuck In Cement: When Packaged Apps Create Barriers To Innovation" report and William Band's "The Smart Way To Implement Process-Centric CRM: Deliver Breakthrough Customer Experiences By Transforming Business Processes" report.)
Our internal discussion sparked a bigger question that's harder to answer, but in many ways is even more important. That über-question is "What's the future of business processes?" and leads us to also ask:
- What will business processes look like in 2020?
- How should business and IT leaders prepare for the future, given that many of them are implementing isolated BPMS projects or sponsoring departmental process improvement projects by Six Sigma teams?
I've been working hard to answer these questions, and the results of that analysis will be published soon. In the meantime, here's a sneak preview.
First, we need to define a new term:
Big process is when senior-most business and technology leaders embrace business process change by shifting the organization's focus from isolated BPM and process improvement projects to a sustainable, enterprise-wide business process transformation program that is then supported and driven by top executives.
Moving to "big process thinking" is a tall order. I don't see how this can be done using a bottom-up approach; it must be envisioned, supported, and driven by very senior executives and then radiate out through change agents up, down, and across the entire organization. Obviously, change management is hugely important; but the companies that have embraced big process thinking in the C suite (Medco comes to mind) have achieved amazing results.
So how do you get to big process thinking by 2020? We think there are five tenets of big process thinking to adopt:
- Transform processes, don't just improve them.
- Give the customer control.
- Globalize, standardize, and humanize.
- Embrace big data.
- Double down on process skills.
These tenets are absolutely critical for looking at business processes from a strategic, transformational perspective rather than a continuous improvement viewpoint. When the report I'm writing gets a little closer to publication I'll put up a blog post for each of the five tenets to explain them further — I know some of them are a little cryptic. In the meantime, if you've got any suggestions, thoughts, or differences of opinion, please share your ideas with everyone by making a comment. And stay tuned.
Call to Reason
Comment from Dave Duggal on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 15:15
Hi Connie,
I enjoyed your post. It was well worth the time to take stock of all these disparate movements in Enterprise Computing and give it some perspective.
There's been lots of great developments in tools, but the C-suite has broader interests as you described. I can't help but roll my eyes when I hear some folks talk in terms of liberation theology. The C-suite has every interest in a more agile adaptive future, it won't happen without them. What the enterprise doesn't need is a lot of closed silos that compound their interoperability and change management challenges.
I do think the next 20 years of computing will usher in an age far more collaborative and effective than the last twenty, and that would be just what the C-suite ordered.
Change Management
Comment from Henry Motyka (not verified) on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 19:24
I worked on a change management project at a Big 4 firm. The purpose was to automate the audit practice. It was an absolutely fascinating project because it was so large, so difficult, and it took so much time. But really the only reason why it worked was because top management bought into the concept and backed it totally. Without that buy-in, there would have been little success.
People are naturally resistant to change. There are ways to get around that but one lof the best ways is to have top management drive the process.
I have always felt that another important component of success was getting everyone involved early. For instance, having the quality asurance and support groups, who normally get involved towards the end of the process, work in the planning phase meant so much to us. It was a unique way of doing things but it strenthened the process.
Standardization was another critical component of success. In a large firm with 100 field offices, one way of doing things meant control over factors which could have slowed down the process.
All in all, it was a great project to work on but the success was based on the principles mentioned in the blog by Connie Moore. Good job!
Don't create new acronyms
Comment from Alberto Manuel (not verified) on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 12:22
Hi Connie:
I disagree with your approach due to the fact that if we want people to make part of business transformation change agents cannot use such kind of definitions.
This post explains clearly what I want to express:
I believe that you want managers to push process improvement further, but company's "leaving forces", the people, don't believe anymore on these acronyms. Keep it simple.
Actually I meant the "living
Comment from Alberto Manuel (not verified) on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 04:15
Actually I meant the "living forces".
The Wrong War
Comment from Brian Reale (not verified) on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 17:34
I really enjoyed this post - it is something I have been thinking about for some time. I am actually more interested in the first part of your post where you talk about the tension between the BPM suites and the Enterprise Suites. I certainly agree that this "war" is currently being fought in the enterprise space. However, I think there is a much more subtle battle going on which involves "social" and "long tail type apps," and that enterprise vendors will notice too late that they have been fighting the wrong enemy. I've written more on the subject here - http://www.processmakerblog.com/uncategorized/big-ideas-big-process-soci...
"Driving Jerry Jones-style" and "We Are NOT Legacy Apps!!!"
Comment from Jason Sharp (not verified) on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 17:17
Hi Connie,
Like the post and look forward to your end result. I wanted to mention two things:
1. Supported and Driven by Top Leaders
The good is clear: you get political will, financial support, and [initial] mandated adoption pressure to get something so daunting started. The bad is the natural tendency for the wrong participants to be involved in the decisions and execution. Indeed, the right participants usually have to "take a decision". This is why I hear so often that top down improvement projects simply aren't successful, that instead they must involve top down AND bottom up to succeed. Easy dig on Jerry Jones' reputation for managing the Dallas Cowboys...
2. Vendors simply have to maintain freshness
When web services first took hold, the WS and SOA vendors touted their "hot & fresh" benefits of nimbly wiring up all the inflexible legacy systems to greater effect. The packaged app (e.g. ERP, CRM) vendors, LOATHE to be labeled "legacy" apps, hurried to embed SOAP stacks and claim they were part of the new and exciting--heck even driving it! I've been seeing the same thing happening with BPM. "We have workflow" is all too often chanted by those vendors, and they suck at it.
Continued growth of common business platforms
Comment from Doug Hudgeon (not verified) on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 04:04
Over the next 8 years we'll see large-scale adoption of "big process" for common business problems.
As part of this trend, BPM providers will play the role of advance scouts mapping unfamiliar terrain but, once the route is surveyed, ERP and BPO (business process outsourcing) providers will quickly build rail lines across the landscape. Over the next 8 years, Enterprises will increasingly trend towards buying a ticket on the ERP / BPO railway rather than trying to build their own roads.
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There have been a few interesting updates in the digital marketing world over the past two weeks so grab a cup of tea and have a read about the rise of SSL encryption, Googlebot-Mobile and how we may now have a recipe search engine on our hands.
As (not provided) data from SSL encryption for Google organic search continues to rise, Bing and Yahoo! have started to follow suit with their own versions. Last week it was noted that Bing could be used through the HTTPS protocol but had not yet been set as the default. However, the third player, Yahoo!, has since switched on the HTTPS protocol as a default for searches from its American version, Yahoo.com. The interesting part is how the referral data from both secure Bing and secure Yahoo is being completely stripped out. So, on top of not passing any keyword data, analytic programs won't even know the traffic came from a search engine – the traffic, as Cyrus Shepard discovered, will be tracked as direct and result in an artificial decline in organic traffic from Bing and Yahoo.
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This reinforces the inevitable: organic keyword data will eventually disappear altogether, and webmasters will need to – if they haven't already – start refocusing their attention to user intent and journeys. This is further reinforced by Google's Hummingbird algorithm update in September 2013 which saw Google switch to more conversational search. Keywords will still be important, but creating unique and well optimised content will prevail in this modern search landscape.
Yesterday, Zhijian He from Google announced that a new iteration of Googlebot will be rolling out in three-to-four weeks that will crawl smartphone content, leaving Googlebot-Mobile to only crawl feature phone content instead. This change comes around with the growth of smartphone technology, which is now starkly more advanced than feature phone technology and as such requires segmentation for a better user experience. He writes that:
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Cutts says that social is a key avenue for driving quality targeted traffic to a website or page and is a great way to build brands, but, social metrics should not yet be considered a ranking factor. He clarifies that content with strong social metrics and high ranking positions is the result of correlation and not causation.
Facebook's Chris Turitzin announced a tweak to its News Feed algorithm that will negatively affect Page admins who post text status updates, following research showing this type of content to be unengaging. Turitzin writes:
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SEATTLE (AP) — Biotech drugmaker Dendreon Corp. said Monday that it will cut about 600 jobs following disappointing sales of its expensive prostate cancer drug Provenge.
The company also will close its Morris Plains, NJ, manufacturing facility and reorganize administrative work as part of the plan to save the company $150 million annually. The cuts will affect full-time and part-time staff. They will take effect over the next year.
Dendreon said two remaining manufacturing sites in Union City, Ga., and Seal Beach, Calif., should be able to meet demand for Provenge production.
Provenge won U.S. approval in April 2010 and was the first drug designed to use the body's own immune system to fight cancer. Regulators approved the drug for prostate cancer that has not responded to other treatments. Analysts once expected sales to reach $1 billion per year, but sales have not matched those expectations. Analysts have blamed the drug's time-consuming production process, which takes several weeks, not to mention its $93,000 price tag.
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thurman ( 19-0-0, 18KO) was matched against former world champion, carlos quintana (29-4-0, 22KO) of puerto rico on the undercard of the guerrero-berto fight. thurman showcased his massive punching power. he is promoted by GBP. thurmans win puts him as an up an comer of the 147 lbs division. it would be interesting to see how golden boy will handle his next fights.
they can match thurman against their cash cow, canelo at 154 (that is if a CW is not possible). i think thurman would pose a deadly risk for guerrero, and canelo is someone who can match thurman's power and make it more competitive. thurman might even be able to beat canelo.
it's close and hard to call, but that's what makes it a good fight.
your thoughts?
They can't match Thurman with Canelo...
That fight would be waaaay to soon for Keith Thurman he hasn't fought anybody really notable to be worth a mention in the same breath as Canelo.
Thurman's sheer punching power is not in question he packs a punch and looks really big for the division but going from Carlos Quintana to a top fighter like Canelo is just way to much of a step up he needs to fight someone like Gabriel Rosado before he even contemplated making such a step up.
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Tejari launches joint venture in "crucial" Saudi market
Tejari (www.tejari.com), the Middle East's premier business-to-business electronic marketplace, has announced a partnership with Saudi Arabia's Technology Investments Company, a joint stock company specializing in IT, telecoms and other knowledge-based industries.
The deal between the two organizations will serve the online procurement needs of the private and government sectors in the Kingdom, aiming for rapid expansion in its first year of operation.
Saudi Arabia, a market that represents 60 percent of regional spending in all key economic sectors, is a crucial part of the organization's regional expansion strategy. "The Saudi market for e-business and e-government services remains the largest in the Middle East. Business development opportunities are unmatched anywhere in the region," says Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Tejari Board member and UAE Minister of Economy and Planning, who attended the signing of the deal.
The deal comes at a time when Saudi Arabia is witnessing major growth in internet usage, with 300,000 new users per year. In addition, the Saudi e-commerce market segment is expected to reach $15 billion by 2008, primarily dominated by B2B transactions.
With a strong reputation for quality and service throughout the Middle East, Tejari is realizing significant achievement with its regional expansion goal. "Since we launched our first venture outside the UAE, in Jordan in 2002, hundreds of organizations in seven countries have realized the efficiencies that online procurement delivers," says Omar Hijazi, CEO of Tejari.
Greater involvement in the Gulf States has long been at the heart of the company's strategy for widening its reach in the region. "The Saudi launch was a fundamental priority for us," added Hijazi.
"Tejari Saudi Arabia is being created specifically to enable both the private and government sectors in the country to realize the business benefits facilitated by online procurement, including dramatic cost savings, greater efficiencies and enhanced market reach," commented Mr Abdulrahman Mazi, Managing Director of Technology Investments Company.
"Saudi Arabia is one of the most advanced countries in the region in terms of e-commerce infrastructure. Most of the necessary components are in place including e-commerce law, PKI infrastructure and the electronic banking settlement system," Mazi explained. "The adoption of e-procurement will result in an even more vibrant economy in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
The partners in Tejari Saudi Arabia will be led by the recently established Saudi Joint Stock Company, Technology Investments Company, and will include National Information Systems (NIS), the developer of Tejari Saudi Arabia.
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- Significant Potential for Middle East's E-commerce Ventures to Succeed, Says Tejari
- 'e-retail' launched as joint venture company between Memory Technology Corporation (MTC) and EMPA Middle East
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- Axiom Telecom, MENAFN launch joint venture in UAE
- Dubai Investments announces joint venture with RED House to manage development projects in Saudi Arabia


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Since many of us will be losing an hour this Sunday when Daylight Savings Time begins, let's go straight to this week's news so that we can get an early start to the weekend:
- MCA Solutions Merges with Servigistics
- Descartes Reports Fiscal 2012 Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results
- Ryder Enhances Alternative Fuels Website with New Interactive Tools and Training
- Con-way Truckload Fleet Gets In-Cab Navigation Equipment Upgrad
- Maersk introduces new transpacific "value-added" service (Logistics Management)
- INTTRA Delivers Industry First Multi-Party Electronic Bill of Lading on Its Ocean Network
- Truckload & Intermodal Linehaul Indexes – Feb 2012 (Cass Information Systems)
- House speaker ready to drop stalled transport bill (Reuters)
- United States files dispute against India (WTO)
The consolidation trend continues in the service parts solutions market, with Servigistics acquiring MCA Solutions this week. Marlin Equity Partners has been the main force behind the roll up, acquiring Servigistics and Click Commerce (which had acquired Xelus) in 2009, and now MCA Solutions. According to the press release:
Servigistics will be integrating MCA's offerings in Performance Management, Business Design, Demand Forecasting, Inventory Optimization, Supply Planning, Contract Management, Network Design, Lifecycle Management, Budget Management, and Supplier Management into its existing [Service Lifecycle Management] portfolio…MCA's three deployment options – Enterprise, On-Demand, and Desktop – will also open up new markets for the combined company.
The usual footnotes apply with this acquisition: the combined company will have to figure out what to do with its overlapping solutions, they will have to reassure their customers that their existing applications will be supported for years to come, they will have to make a strong effort to retain important talent, and so on. As for the rest of the market, this deal leaves Baxter Planning Systems as the main best-of-breed competitor remaining, along with enterprise vendors Infor, Oracle, and SAP and a few other niche players. Considering the high degree of specialization and optimization IP associated with these solutions, it's not an easy market for start-ups to break into, so this will remain a relatively tight competitive field moving forward…not counting, of course, third party logistics companies that specialize in service parts logistics.
(For related commentary on service parts management, see "Ford's Service Parts Supply Chain")
Ryder has invested in alternative-fuel vehicles that past few years, and the company is leveraging its website to help educate and promote the value of these new vehicle technologies to customers. This week Ryder announced that it has enhanced its alternative fuels website by including "an interactive Fuel Cost Savings Calculator that allows customers to compare fuel costs between diesel- and natural gas-powered commercial vehicles based on their business' driving habits in real time," and adding a searchable Refueling and Maintenance Station Locator function to help customers locate the closest refuelling and maintenance locations, along with new Instructional Training Videos for natural gas fueling.
Bottom line: As the price of diesel continues to rise, so will the interest in alternative-fuel vehicles.
Con-way Truckload announced this week that it will be installing, over the next six to eight months, Maptuit® NaviGo™ technology in all company trucks and Qualcomm-equipped owner-operator tractors. Here is a quote from the press release:
"This is a significant upgrade of our navigation and communication capabilities that will raise the overall quality and efficiency of our operations," says Saul Gonzalez, chief operating officer, Con-way Truckload. "By installing NaviGo in our trucks, we hope to improve safety performance, making life a little easier for our drivers and, in return, for our customers."
The press release provides details about the features and benefits of the NaviGo system. In short, just like manufacturers and retailers are investing in technology to improve the efficiency of their operations, so are trucking companies…at least those that can afford to do so. With upward pressure on fuel prices and driver pay, trucking companies have to find ways to offset these cost increases.
Speaking of transportation, "House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, signaling a lack of Republican support for a stalled $260 billion transportation bill, said on Thursday he was ready to pursue a less ambitious version under consideration by the Democratic-controlled Senate," as reported by Reuters. The article goes on to say that "the House version has faced difficulties from the start, alienating fiscally conservative Republicans over its price tag while Democrats and some Republicans have opposed a provision that would end dedicated funding for mass transit projects."
When it comes to transportation funding, the story remains the same.
Okay, time's up…Have a great, hour-shortened weekend!
(Note: Con-way, Descartes, Ryder, Oracle, and SAP are ARC clients).


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The last several times I've been to Philadelphia International Airport I've considered making the trek down to Terminal F to try out Jose Garces's menu at Local. But the timing just hasn't worked out. So I was intrigued when I saw that Brian Freedman reviewed the iPad-based eatery in yesterday's Philadelphia Weekly.
Everything you eat at Local, from sides to proper entrees, you order through a clever iPad system; you can customize your order, add items, pay through it and even browse the interwebs. And while some people may push back at the lack of much human contact during the meal, I actually found it to be perfectly suited to the context of the airport. Checking your bags, wending your way through security and dealing with the myriad other headaches of air travel are stressful enough. Being able to retreat into your own world in this well-appointed space is fantastic.
Local: It's actually good food at Philadelphia Int'l Airport [Philadelphia Weekly]
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He's got a Cuban diner to get open (Rosa Blanca, going into the space that once housed Chifa) and Volver's birth to tend to. There are projects far and wide demanding his attention, plus the maintenance of his local empire. And yet, we just got word that Jose Garces also had a hand in helping to design the menu for the new Local–a beer-garden themed, iPad-equipped American tavern going into concourse F at Philadelphia International Airport.
The Sunday Inquirer outlined the planned upgrades to Terminal F at Philadelphia International Airport. When the project is completed, the F might stand for food. Among the improvements, a host of new eating options including Local, a new tavern that will feature Jose Garces as a consultant. The restaurant/bar will not be a Garces Restaurant Group property but chefs will be trained in Garces restaurants. Every seat will come with an iPad from which you can place orders, surf the web and check flight times. Each table will also have outlets to make charging up a snap.


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Driver flees after running truck off I-93 in Manchester
State police said the crash happened just before 7 p.m. Saturday night. The truck crashed through the center median guard rail and ran off the road, ending up in a small creek about 75 feet off the highway.
When state police arrived, they found the truck, but there was no driver with it. A single set of footprints led away from the scene. Troopers followed tracks, but they disappeared in the breakdown lane adjacent to the median strip.
The accident forced traffic to use just one lane of the highway while the guardrail was replaced. Police are seeking the person who was driving the 2004 gray Chevrolet Colorado pickup with Massachusetts plates. Anyone who has information about the crash is asked to call State Police in Bedford at 603-223-4381


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She had a perfect life. Then she got a real life....
For nearly 20 years, quiet, unassuming Lillian Manville has devoted herself to her self-made billionaire husband - and enjoyed a luxurious life of splendid homes, trips, jewels, and clothes. But when James Manville dies in a plane crash, Lillian's grief is compounded by a shocking mystery: All that Jimmie has left to her is an old farmhouse in tiny Calburn, Virginia. Now, Lillian's unexpected circumstances are leading her to a made-over life in Calburn, an exciting business - and a sweet new love with a handsome local man.
But will she have the courage to unveil the truth surrounding a past scandal and the loss of her husband? The answers may be as close as the mulberry tree in her yard - and Lillian must dig deep within herself to Wght the secrets and lies that threaten to uproot the past she cherished and the future she treasures....
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"It will draw you in"
This book starts off in medias res. You will wonder from the very first page -- what in the world is going on??? The main character will draw you in as she discovers who she is and who the man was that she married. She will also make you want to head to the kitchen and cook a five course meal! There are no really red hot love scenes but there are more than enough mysteries to keep you enthralled! I enjoyed this book until the end (which left me a little dissappointed but I still recommend this book).
"Deveraux at her best!"
Yes, I would recommend "The Mulberry Tree" to a friend. I enjoyed the book. If you enjoy Jude Deveraux this is a must read!
"Very good read!!"
I think this is one of the more interesting Jude Deveraux novel. definitely has some very interesting twists! the reader does an excellent job. And the story is not predictable, which I really like!
"Good mystery"
Very good mystery! I was captured from the very beginning. We need more like this!
"One of the best books I have ever listened to or read!"
I hated to turn it off to go to sleep! It was spellbinding. I might even listen again, it was so good
It's all about romance. My favorite.
"Amazing story"
You have out done yourself. I think I have read all your stories but this is my favorite.
Well done.
"not one of her better ones"
the old house and lands coming alive and her canning
no-older story, not one of Jude's better
her accents
sorry i wasted a whole credit on it
"Great Book"
Great character development. I love the small town with everyone in everyone's business. Some strange characters and a great love story.
Being chased down the mountain by a crazy ....
Love the story. I've listened to it a couple of times. The characters are very believable. I love the wit and sarcasm in the writing.
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An important part of our work is to partner with local business and industry to improve pathways and transition opportunities for local students into identified areas of skill shortage.
Our industry strategies
The Central Ranges LLEN Strategic Plan 2010-2013 outlines our priority work and strategies with industry and business as:
- working with local government and industry networks and associations to identify skill shortage areas and increase training opportunities, especially in bushfire affected regions
- facilitating partnerships between schools and major employers within the Central Ranges region to create career, training and pathways programs in identified skill shortage areas, especially health and community, hospitality and building and construction
- developing partnerships between schools, industries, group training and workplace learning co-ordinators to expand school-based apprenticeship and traineeship opportunities within the region.
Read more about our industry strategies, targets and outcomes in our Central Ranges LLEN Strategic Plan 2010-2013
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Health Industry Work Placement Manual
In response to a shortage of qualified workers in the health and hospital industry, Central Ranges LLEN has published this manual for schools, students and health services.
Read about the Health Industry Work Placement Manual project
Murrindindi Training Institute
The MTI is an exciting local partnership project that will deliver outdoor recreation, health and hospitality training programs.
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Training Needs Analysis
Two new Training Needs Analysis partnership projects have been developed in Murrindindi and Macedon Ranges Shires to support the development of local industry led training opportunities in traditionally thin training markets.
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