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Infor delivers fully integrated enterprise solutions for a wide range of industries, as well as best-in-class, stand-alone products that address the essential challenges its customers face in areas such as enterprise resource planning, supply chain planning and execution, customer and supplier relationship management, asset management, financial and performance management, and business intelligence. With 8,100 employees and offices in over 100 countries, Infor provides enterprise solutions to more than 70,000 customers. For additional information, visit
Consulting Resource Manager, Americas
The Consulting Resource Management, a newly created role, is responsible for defining, executing and managing strategies that optimize the use of consulting resources.
The role has full responsibility for managing day to day operations and resources of the Resource management organization.
This position helps develop programs, policies and processes to drive consistency and support achievement of the organization's mission, strategy and goals while ensuring that current and evolving needs of internal customers are met. Plans, implements and maintains budget for area of responsibility. Ensures appropriate operational planning is effectively executed to achieve business plans.
The influence of the Resource Management organization will be to maximize the utilization of consultants, balancing the use of local resources, proposing consultants for engagements in other regions or sub-contracted to third parties, or leveraging third parties, all with the objective of optimizing supply and demand of consulting resources, and ultimately utilization.
Key Activities
1. Work Management
· Responsible for the overall organization's resource management service order process. Develops and implements processes for consultant service order lifecycle management
· Proactively monitors data integrity audits for systems, and drives correction of data in a timely manner to ensure information provided to management team is accurate
§ Ensures resourcing team is maximizing consultant utilization by proposing matches of current/future bench consultants with engagement opportunities
§ Monitors and analyzes trends in Resource Management KPIs. Makes recommendations on mitigation strategies when not achieving targets
§ Proactively identifies resource issues and manages internal customer escalations by suggesting solutions
§ Proactively monitors Resource Management compliance with agreed to service levels
§ Leads programs that enhance Resource Management overall operational effectiveness
§ Partners horizontally across the organization to break down silos and assure smooth work flow
§ Drives consistency in resource management practices globally.
§ Assists in development of Resource Management strategy and business plans
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§ Establishes documents and facilitates adoption of best practices for resource management activities. (e.g. resource searches, screening, and matching recommendations, business partnership, etc)
§ Leads the development and implementation of systems, programs and processes that enhance Resource Management to support the organization's business strategy
§ Ensures team adheres to appropriate methodologies to accomplish assigned work product; consistently utilizes best practices and ensure compliance to all standards
§ Ensures Resourcing team participates in Practice Management professional communities, where applicable to job role
§ Fosters collaboration and strategic thinking skills within the consulting team
3. Professional Development
§ Demonstrates clear understanding of own performance expectations
§ Partners with manager to create and execute on annual objectives and individual employee career plans.
§ Achieves and maintains high-level leadership skills
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§ Develops hiring plans to meet budget for organization
§ Leads recruiting efforts for direct report positions, including job posting, screening, interviewing and hiring
§ Develops appropriate on-boarding plans for new hires
§ Works with employees to set annual objectives
§ Coaches and mentors managers (and/or all direct reports) to meet performance expectations
§ Delivers on-time performance appraisals for all direct reports
§ Works with management to plan and take appropriate action on poor performers
§ Assists employees in developing and executing their individual career development plans
§ Conducts regular and frequent communication with team and addresses concerns.
§ Solicits employee feedback on organizational initiatives and communicates back up to next level, as appropriate
§ Fosters a sense of "team†unity and promotes a positive work environment
§ Assesses current team skills profile and develops team hiring and training plan to support the departmental strategy
§ Ensures fair and equitable compensation practices across Resource Management that supports corporate pay-for-performance philosophy
5. Financial Management and Administration
· Manages organization's headcount and costs within targeted goals
· Ensures team compliance with corporate policies and processes (e.g. Timecards, vacation reporting, performance reviews, expenses, etc.)
· Participates in HR processes, per internal guidelines (e.g. Performance management, base focal review, bonus recommendations, etc);
· Consistently submits team metrics and reporting in a timely and accurate manner
Preferred Qualifications
Experience & Qualifications
§ At least 10 years of progressive relevant experience, of which at least 5 years should be in a software-consulting environment, and at least 2 years managing a professional services resource management organization.
§ Middle management experience relevant to the size of organization to be managed.
§ Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required
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Topic: Living with Stage IV
Hello Everyone,
I haven't written in awhile. My Mom (Stage IV exterhepatic..mets to liver and lungs..03/2006...four metal stents in common bile duct) has been fighting this cancer like a true champion. For the most part, she has done very well. It wasn't until the end of sept. that things changed pretty fast and not for the good. That's when we found out the Xeloda she was on did not work....but also her cancer spread to her right pelvic bone. She had two weeks of radiation to her pelvic bone. In the meantime, her symptoms worsened. She started having severe right side/chest pains. Her lungs were filling with fluid. She had a procedure to drain the fluid. They did this in two spots in her back. Thankfully, the fluid came back negative for cancer. It was the biliary system producing excess liquid. The procedure helped her breathe a little better, however she is on oxgyen as needed. She uses it at night and sometimes during the day. That procedure happened on a Tuesday, the next day she had another procedure to drain her bile externally...for they could not put another internal stent in. This is when we discovered that her biliary system was the worse the doctors at University Hospitals in Cleveland have ever seen. Side note...they have been amazing caring for my Mom and our family!! They are fighting just as hard as she is!
She has an externally drainage bag that is draining her bile. She is also on oxycotin, percocet, cirpo, ursodyiol (sp), along with some other meds to help.
Her doctors informed us that her cancer has reached a new stage...one of rapid growth! Since, having her bile drain externally they were able to give her gemcitabine with a little cisplatin. She has been on this before and it worked. So we are hoping and praying to God that it will work this time as well. Her doctor doesn't want to put her on something new b/c her body wouldn't be able to handle the side effects...plus her bili is still pretty high.
Next week they are planning on doing another procedure to hopefully drain the bile internally as well as externally. She went for some pics this week and we found out that her biliary system is decompressing..so hopefully with the chemo and time the dr. will be able to bypass the bile to her bowel.
I'm sorry I talked for so long. It has been a hard couple of months. My Mom just turned 54. I am 29. My brother is 25. My husband and I just had our 2 wedding anniversary. More importantly, we have a 7 month old daughter named Lily. She is the first grandchild on both sides. AKA...my Mom's best medicine and sunshine on her toughest days!!! A TRUE GIFT FROM GOD!!!!
My Mom, Patricia, has never complained or asked why. She takes everyday as a gift and loves God and her family so much!! She has and will always be my inspiration for everything I do in life...and I get to call her MOM!!
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2: St. Lucia continued
By Tim Clark — January 2002
Thus at the center of Castries he noted that the square adjacent to the 1897 cathedral was named in honor of Derek Walcott, the St. Lucian poet who won a Nobel Prize in 1992. Yet a moment later his pride seemed just as strong as he pointed out the new engine at the capital's central firehouse. Amid stunning views from Fort Charlotte atop Morne Fortuna, a 2,800-foot mountain overlooking the city, he told us that the 1796 citadel had been restored as a college named for yet another St. Lucian Nobel laureate, the economist Sir Arthur Lewis. Yet he beamed just as brightly when we passed St. Lucia's humble TV station. "Just take a look at our dishes, man," he said of the cluster of sun-bleached antennae.
At first I took a patronizing view of Linus' generous enthusiasms. But by the end of our drive I saw nothing naive in his patriotism. The size and assets of his island nation should not have governed his pride. It was as genuine as any Yankee's, and as valid.
This was a valuable perspective as we explored St. Lucia's west coast and a handful of islands in the Grenadines to the south. As a first-time visitor to the Caribbean, I welcomed any help in grasping its proportions. From afar, extraordinary symbols like the Pitons loom like illusions of paradise, and one postcard of an achingly perfect beach can epitomize–and somehow obscure–a dozen countries. But traveling by yacht with occasional forays to land, we were able to take measure of these island nations in relation to our wake–sometimes literally. Before we left Marigot Bay, another of St. Lucia's coastal gems where we'd stopped for a while to play on quiet beaches and sip drinks at a local cafe, we entered its stunning, steeply sheltered inner harbor, where there was just enough room to spin Emerald Seas on her axis. We couldn't have more graphically appreciated its dimensions.
When a floating home is so substantial, she takes on a culture of her own. Emerald Seas, with her rich mahogany interior set off by polished nickel brightwork, suggests an earlier age of cosmopolitan luxury. Myriam Tremblay, her French-Canadian chef, prepared superb meals of North American fare with global flair–for example, preceding herbed rack of lamb with tangy gazpacho perfect for the climate and accompanying it with roasted potatoes and juliennes of carrots and the Caribbean vegetable christophene. Our Trinidadian captain, Cyprian Vialva, oversaw the yacht's operations with the dignified confidence of a 30-year professional, and his crew's cordial demeanor seemed influenced both by the bucolic beauty of the island setting and a classic Southern graciousness imported by the Lancasters from their native North Carolina.
At 105 feet LOA Emerald Seas sometimes rivaled in size the Grenadine islands we visited. Bequia, a night's run from St. Lucia, is the largest in the group, yet is only seven square miles in area. On the beaches of Admiralty Bay, encircled by its main town, Port Elizabeth, small brightly colored sailboats the locals have used for generations rested on their keels. Proportions on Bequia have taken a playful turn. Once a regional center for boatbuilding, the island is now best known for the finely detailed model ships made by patient masters such as the Sargeant brothers, whose workshop we discovered just a short walk from the crescent of small shops and relaxed restaurants along the waterfront.
Seven miles southeast of Bequia on privately owned Mustique, Britannia Bay harbors just one restaurant, the famous Basil's Bar, which we found remarkably convivial, considering its select location. The likes of Mick Jagger and Tommy Hilfiger own homes on Mustique and help make it one of the most exclusive destinations in the Caribbean, so a 30-minute taxi ride past dozens of Edenic estates was in marked contrast to our jaunt with Linus on St. Lucia a few days before. Here our driver merely recited facts and figures for each mansion–the nationality of the owner, the baffling number of rooms, and the mortifying rental fee. Amid Mustique's carefully manicured scenery, I missed Linus' exuberance for a particularly fertile stand of banana trees or a fishing village's dusty cricket pitch.
On a large yacht exclusivity travels with you. A few hours' run south of Mustique, Vialva expertly negotiated a hair-raising labyrinth of reefs to reach the pocket-size refuge of Horseshoe Cove in the Tobago Cays. Once we were anchored, every guest took to the aquamarine waters by kayak, RIB, or just a pair of fins, and for a few hours the teeming reefs and deserted islands seemed like our private archipelago. Looking back on the yacht from the blinding-white beach on one of the cays, I realized that a charter on this level is sometimes a means of exploration, sometimes a retreat, but best of all, often both at once.
Later, as had become my habit after another of Tremblay's exceptional dinners, I reclined in a long chair on the open aft deck. Distant lights on Carriacou and Union Island were visible on the horizon, but our anchorage was dark under late summer meteor showers. Five days of cruising had eclipsed and annulled the postcard image of the Caribbean I'd held before my arrival, and I no longer puzzled over its proportions. All I could do was wonder when last I'd seen such a densely starlit sky.
Emerald Seas charters for $36,000 per week, all inclusive.
To download a detailed navigational chart of this area, visit powerandmotoryacht.about.com and click Charts.
The Sacks Group (954) 764-7742. Fax (954) 523-3769. www.sacksyachts.com.
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BREAKING NEWS: Terrible player on terrible team better than other terrible player on the same terrible team.
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BREAKING NEWS: Terrible player on terrible team better than other terrible player on the same terrible team.
So was that the running game those who favor Brown envisioned? I tell you what though, watching Donald get pancaked by the defense 3 yds in the backfield was a bit amusing*. Hopefully watching him get creamed for 95% of the game helps TPTB get past the bargaining stage of grief, and start the acceptance process of just how freaking unbelieveably bad the OLine is.
*Yes, I do find it funny. Not schadenfreude funny, but pathetic funny.
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. ― Ricky Gervais.
I see you've been busy over the extended holiday weekend.
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. ― Ricky Gervais.
No one has said ALL Trent's problems are from the OLine, but they are at fault for most of the lack of production. Which is why I thought watching Brown getting rocked backwards 95% of the time, would have helped some figure out it really doesn't matter who is running the ball, as long as the line continues allowing the defense to run roughshed over them. It's like thinking by re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, it would stop the leak.
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Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. ― Ricky Gervais.
He's already proven to have way better production in this league. He's on pace to have a massive drop-off this year. As well as most of our offense. And yet... you single out TRich, and not the other people who are also struggling mightily. Should we fire Luck? He's waay behind last year's production. How 'bout Hilton... another person behind last year's production, and this was supposed to be a step UP year for him, and he's even the main guy now, more targets. And trust me, both of those guys are making as many, if not more, mistakes as TRich. Of course, when the play is blown up almost instantly upon the snap, it makes everyone look way worse than they are.
Maybe... just maybe..... it's the ****** offensive system they are in, combined with a sieve of an offensive line? No, go ahead and keep blaming TRich while inexplicably also admitting that our offense sucks. Place no blame on any of the other under-producing skill players on this team. It's all TRich, all the time.
I'm telling you, simply replace Gilbert with Mudd... replace Pep with Arians... and this offense would be upper echelon. It' not the players. It's the friggin coaches and coordinators. And that's considering that we've lost a ton of guys for the year. We still have weapons on this team. They just aren't even close to being used correctly.
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There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
In 2012, Trent had 51 catches for 367 yards (7.2 per reception). Pretty good.
As a Colt this season, Trent has just 14 receptions for 127 yards (9.1 per reception). That's really good. He has 21 receptions on the season, but 7 of them are with Cleveland. So that means that a third of his 2013 receptions are with the Browns even though he only played two games there this year!
T-Rich has shown that he has an Edgerrin James ability to catch and run with the ball. Even the harshest T-Rich critic has to admit that it's a strength of his. He is good when he can run in space. Yet our offensive coordinator has only allowed him to catch the ball 14 TIMES in 10 games. If he had some nice catches, then I'm sure it would really help his confidence.
This stat is symbolic of an offensive coordinator who has no creativity and fails to recognize his players' strengths.
You're starting to catch on, Soll. But I'm teling you, TRich can do so much more in a functional offensive system. And it's not just TRich. Hilton, Luck, Brazill, Rogers, DHB, Fleener, even Brown --- they are ALL capable of being weapons, and having so much more production.
Been harping on this for weeks now... TRich is the only one of those guys catching any flack for some inexplicable reason. I can almost guarantee, if our playcalling and o-line execution got fixed, you'd be LOVING these guys. It can still happen, but Pep needs to get his head out of his *** and Grigs needs to call up Mudd for some consulting.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Does anyone remember the last time we did no-huddle? I mean seriously? Luck is a freak at that, and calling his own plays.
I get the feeling now it's all being phoned in from Pep. And it sucks. SET LUCK LOOSE.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Does anyone remember the last time we did no-huddle?
Does anyone remember the last time we consistently tried to run it out of a passing formation?
Does anyone remember the last time a game didn't consist of mostly hideous Pep formations, sometimes with Hilton sitting on the bench?
Does anyone remember the last time we tried to give our running backs a chance to catch the ball out of the backfield, in particularly T-Rich who is good at it?
Does anyone remember the last time we tried to consistently roll Luck out instead of letting him get drilled in the pocket all game?
Does anyone remember the last time we tried quick slants and screens to utilize the speed of DHB and Hilton?
Does anyone remember the last time our offense showed any creativity that you would expect from an NFL offensive coordinator who has one of the best quarterbacks in the league at his disposal?
Does anyone remember when watching this offense wasn't the most boring soul-crushing thing ever?
If you isolate the last few weeks this probably isn't true (although if you just isolate it to Richardson's time on the time it might be), but the 2013 Colts offense for the season has still been more efficient than the 2012 version. Slightly less yards per drive, but significantly better in points per drive and a humongous difference in turnovers per drive.
Brown kind of did during the Titans game what I expected. Below average for what you want, a few negative carries to drive down the yard per average, with some flashes of very good. That's essentially what's been happening to Richardson, except Richardson hasn't had those flashes. Both of the last two games that Brown has gotten carries the Colts have put together big drives using power formations. What makes Brown able to have occasional success behind power formations that makes Richardson struggle?
That's really the reason the Colts switched. I would hope they know the OL is the big culprit letting too many players into the backfield. It's what happens on the plays where the OL doesn't do that though which is the reason Brown is in there. He has been able to take advantage of those better than Richardson has. Richardson did do the one big thing the Colts asked him to do in this game though which was to pick up that 4th and 1.
I came around a bit with that performance, but I still think Trent has a lot to work on when it comes to vision and finding another hole.
With that said though I think Pep just compounds the issue even further. Yes, our offensive line, especially the interior OL, has been awful this season, but when you continue to just trout these obvious running formations you do nothing to help the running game. You pull TY off the field and do a three tight end formation in the middle of the field we all know you are freaking running the ball. A lot of the time there just is no threat to actually pass the ball so the defense knows it will be a run.
Why not try more three and four wide formations and run out of that? Why not give Trent some draw plays in the shotgun after letting Luck throw it a bit? Trent will never be the focal point of the offense. The focal point that drives this offense is Luck and they need to realize that. Let Luck loosen them up and force them to bring the DBs out and then let Trent bulldoze them.
The play yesterday along the goal-line where we took TY off and had absolutely no threat of a pass summed it all up. The defense did not respect the lone WR out there. They just stacked the box and DB got stuffed.
Richardson has had some DHB level drops as a Colt. I think they've lost confidence in his ability to catch the ball. Is there a site that tracks targets? I'd like to see how many receptions he has versus targets. Both as a Colt and as a Brown.
I did not pay much attention to him as a Brown so I don't know if he actually caught the ball better or they just continued to throw to him (something the Colts don't appear to be willing to do).
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
I am not a big Trich fan at this junction but will agree that we have too many inexperienced people running this show. I'm talking about Grig, Pep, Pagano, and whomever else is responsible for the inability to play to the strengths of the team.
It's a lot better to see Luck run than sacked.
The trouble with next man up is that is who we are playing with.
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It's funny, having spent so many years watching Peyton run this offense has spoiled us. But not only spoiled us, but has shown us what a proper offense should be like. I'm ALL for having more run plays than we did during the Peyton era, but dear god, you have to play to the strengths of the team. Right now, your best players are your QB and Hilton/Fleener. Why do you continue to force the run out of obvious running formations, and why do you take your best players off the field...ever? Unless TY runs out of breath, he should never leave the field. This has been harped on by everyone here, but there is zero creativity in the offense. The personnel is an issue, but they are not THIS bad. You can mask a lot of the problems by running more 3-4 WR sets and running draw plays. Or play action. Or designed QB draws. Or rolling Luck out of the pocket. Quick slants. Curls. Comebacks. Anything to get the ball out of Luck's hands before he gets pummeled. Included in this is utilizing your RBs in the passing game. For the love of god, any of these ideas would work. Your RBs aren't designed just for running into the porous sieve that is our offensive line. Get them into space and let them do what they do.
Can we steal Tom Moore from Arizona for a few games?
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
catching the ball. He has been targeted 22 times and has made 14 receptions out of them while averaging 9.1 yards. That's pretty good. Why don't they use him in the passing game with screen passes is beyond me. What is more, you will use DHB at what he's doing best. Run blocking. Yayyyyyyyyy!
I agree with this. Luck should be in the no huddle and calling his own plays the majority of the snaps.
Still not convinced TR should be the tailback during those stretches. Brown seems to thrive in situations where the defense is on its heals.
I found a picture of the missed hole against Arizona:
Guess what direction he ran in? Hint, it's not the red one.
Not trying to beat a dead horse here, but this illustrates in a nutshell the criticism of T-Rich. Yes, the line has certainly been horrible for the most part, but on those rare occasions where he has something to work with like the massive hole above, he blows it.
Rare is right. All but the LG, which I'm assuming is Thornton, have gotten a good push*. Can probably count the number of times that happens in a game on one hand.
*Although without looking at the progression of events, it looks like Cherilus got beat to the inside and some how came up with a pancake.
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. ― Ricky Gervais.
So who's gonna post the holes that DBrown has missed?
I got news for y'all; RBs "miss" holes on occasion. It's part of the game. I don't see how posting a pic of TRich missing a hole means that he's somehow bad at this. It's a wham-bam sequence, there are designs and places that they are sposed to go to and holes that open up in an instant and close down in an instant and they have to process all that in a micro-second. It doesn't always work out.
This is like posting an instance when Luck makes a bad play. Guess what --- it happens. It doesn't represent the norm and it's normal.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Yes, the offensive line is miserable and probably deserves much of the blame for not only Richardson's struggles, but for the entire Colts offense. But Richardson shows absolutely no burst. He looks and runs slow. Put him behind a decent Oline and he probably becomes an average-slightly above average RB. But he certainly looks far from being one of the top RBs in the NFL.
I'll back off if someone can post me a couple pictures of T-Rich hitting holes this season like Brown has at least been able to do a few times this year.