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On dying...
I see his widow. “He passed on Thursday night” she says, eyes both hurting and resigned. Unaccountably and uncontrollably my mind is off...

Peter D Greaves
Jun 19, 20232 min read


The slightly facetious signs of a project in trouble.
So I was musing back on a number of large projects (a few in particular) that were abject failures, and I was wondering what advice I...

Peter D Greaves
Jun 19, 20235 min read


A hard lesson in scalability (or why a riding mower is not a farm tractor)
I’ve talked about this before at some conferences and often folks look at me a bit askew when I start out, so let me state upfront this...

Peter D Greaves
Jun 19, 20235 min read


Dump the deck
The slide deck seems to be omnipresent in everything we do in business in America. We present slides for corporate updates, sales...

Peter D Greaves
Jun 19, 20234 min read


Common mistakes when calculating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
The benefits of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis are clear and well documented, yet surprisingly few companies do it well or...

Peter D Greaves
Jun 19, 20235 min read


Health Information Technology – Remembering the “Why” as we plan the “How”
We now armies of people in healthcare organization working on "Interoperable Health Records" and implementing “Meaningful Use” in...

Peter D Greaves
Jun 19, 20236 min read


Cold Calling on Healthcare Providers
Advice to software vendors cold-calling on healthcare providers While working for a large healthcare provider for a number of years, I...

Peter D Greaves
Jun 19, 20235 min read


Pretending to be a horse won’t grow you hooves (or why a data warehouse is not a data-lake)
One of the aspects of going to conferences like HIMSS that is both annoying and amusing is how many vendors identify the next industry...

Peter D Greaves
Jun 19, 20235 min read


An object lesson in how not to use email marketing software
Email marketing I am the first to admit that many of my posts come from direct aggravation as a result one or more incidents, and sadly...

Peter D Greaves
Jun 19, 20232 min read
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