Happy holidays from REMEDI! It is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is already over and we are into the mad rush of the Christmas and New Year's holidays. If your office is anything like ours, this is the season of changing schedules and rotating team members. A lot of people in our office are taking half days or long weekends to try to get some shopping done or just to use some vacation time before the end of the year and enjoy extended stays with family.
As a follow up to my blog in October, I wanted to share some updates with you regarding the IBM InterConnect 2015 conference. I have received some emails and some of our team has fielded some questions regarding the changes in the conferences, so I thought I'd give you a brief update.
For 2015, IBM has announced that the "the B2B Integration and File Transfer solutions, formerly featured at Smarter Commerce Summit, will now be part of InterConnect 2015". If you have attended conferences in the past and you're looking for B2B Integration and/or MFT updates, solutions, and information you will want to look at sessions in the Application Infrastructure & Integration Track. As a Silver Plus sponsor, we look forward to welcoming you to this new event. InterConnect will host 20,000 participants, 100's of vendors, software solution providers, and business partners.
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We have posted in past blogs the different challenges that exist when seeking full-time or contract talent in a competitive, or less than competitive, environment. In our experience, the market for data integration professionals has become decidedly more competitive. From our position, client demand has risen sometimes delaying data and business integration projects that could simply be delayed no longer. Also, the financial positions of many organizations have gotten better and many are seeking resources for 2015 projects.
Since many of us are winding down the work week in preparation for the holiday and to entertain family, travel, or just watch football I thought I'd share a few fun facts about the Thanksgiving. While these aren't necessarily related to B2B, MFT, or EDI sometimes we need to rest our brain on the day before a holiday! So staying in the spirit of Tracy's fun blog yesterday...
Every once in a while you attend a presentation or seminar that is really impactful. The exceptional ones resonate in your personal life and in your professional life. Several members of our team at REMEDI, including myself, attended such an event just last week.
The event was the Smarter Commerce Leadership Forum in Dublin, Ohio, hosted by IBM. The speaker was Eric Greitens, a Navy SEAL, award-winning author, Rhodes Scholar, humanitarian and Founder and CEO of The Mission Continues. Eric spoke about living with resilience and leading with strength and compassion through adverse circumstances. His work these days is filled with efforts that transform how America views its veterans, and how they view themselves particularly through his organization The Mission Continues.
The premise of his talk, his personal efforts, and those of his organization revolve around inspiring and guiding veterans who have served their country, to a related life of service to country, community, family, mankind, etc. after military service and/or injury.
I cannot possibly recount all I learned from this event, but here are a few key life and business lessons that were take aways from the leadership forum...
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