Maybe So
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein My mentor at Microsoft used to share this Chinese proverb occasionally as a reminder that things are not always as they appear to be… more to follow after you read the proverb. One day in late summer, an old farmer was working in his field […]
Persistence
“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” – Voltaire Hi All, As I walked into the office the day before yesterday, there were two gentlemen waiting at the front door to speak with me. They were from a bank that has been wanting to do business with Tahzoo for some time. I haven’t been available to […]
Integrated Delivery Model
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.” – Franklin P. Adams Hi Everyone, There is an old proverb which states that “you can’t cross a chasm in two small steps.” We are transforming the business to be ready for […]
Evolving Our Business
“Learning experiences are like journeys. The journey starts where the learning is now, and ends when the learner is successful. The end of the journey isn’t knowing more, it’s doing more.” – Julie Dirksen Our business is changing. We are zeroing in on delivering contextually appropriate content and personalized experiences as our core value proposition. As I […]
MarketerCX
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.” – Margaret Thatcher Hi Everyone, We launched our first Software as a Service (SaaS) product! MarketerCX is a fully implemented version of our […]
Digital Asset Management or a CMS
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso Most content management systems are designed to manage websites and web pages, not content. The reason we bet the company on SDL Tridion is that it was a component-based approach for delivering a web experience and it had a decoupled architecture, ensuring that it […]
Are You a Chicken or a Pig?
When I was working at Microsoft, I organized a large project called the Geospatial Data Gateway. It was a database project with all the orthoimagery of the US Department of Agriculture coupled with all the tabular data associated with a common land unit. In one system, you could visualize a plot of land and have […]
Shared Values
In order to do all of what has been written about in my previous two notes, we need to be a team and a family of co-workers that share a common value system. The first act of the company was to establish a core set of values: If you care about your customers and your […]
Transforming Experiences
When we started the company, our tagline was ‘Driven by Big Ideas’… As I mentioned earlier, we live in a time of unparalleled change and opportunity. The signs of economic turmoil are ever-present, and it’s because the way in which business is conducted is changing. Over the course of history, during these transitions, companies that […]
Making a Difference
In many ways, I am thrilled at what we’ve accomplished – but it’s not enough, not nearly enough. I want to build a business that is inspirational, that aspires to change the way business is done and most importantly, is an expression of our core values. The business should be inspirational in the way that […]