I managed to sit down for an interview with Josh Keely, the current Vice President of Product Development at Delta Health Technologies in Altoona PA. One of the first things Josh said to me was “No one owns it like you own it”, and that statement set the tone for the rest of the interview. Josh and his business partner at the time developed an application called “AppointMate”, which is an application to help managers of the private duty health care businesses. He managed to grow from 100 small “mom and pop” customers in 2003 to selling his product to franchises having over 500 offices alone by 2009. He succeeded in by exhibiting qualities that I feel make an excellent entrepreneur, hard work, faith in your product, and pure dumb luck. Josh started solving problems with computer programs at a very young age. He told me about how his mother required him to write thank you letters to each one of his relatives who sent him a Christmas gift. Josh realized that he could quickly write all his letters by creating a template and introducing two variables: the name of the person who sent the gift and the gift that was sent. Interestingly this is the process that many mail merge applications use today. Living in a world of computer code you can quickly come up with interesting solutions to many problems, and I believe that is why tech companies are still thriving today in the entrepreneur environment. Though he did not realize it at the time but this type of creative thinking would
I have been fascinated by computers since I was seven. That’s when I first attended a Take Your Child to Work Day with my dad, a software engineer. I begged him to teach me how to program. He began by teaching me BASIC on an original IBM PC, and I eventually taught myself C++, Java, Python, and more.
As the Vice President of Human Resource for Moore Beer, Inc., it is my duty and responsibility to direct all of Moore Beer, Inc. employees in accordance with the company 's policies and procedures as well as abide by all the laws that are put in place to protect employee’s rights. Moore Beer, Inc. has suffered a decrease in sales profits, as a result the company is reducing its workforce. The President of the company asked me to look into the five employees listed below and decide who to terminate as well as provide the reason why the termination is necessary. My job is to terminate three out of the five employees.
Karen Stockbridge is the Director of Professional Development at Beth Israel Deaconess (BID) Milton Hospital. Karen, married with five children, works in the town where they are raising a family. She is passionate about nursing and optimistic about its future.
It’s better to know a lot of things about some things than some things about a lot of things! In this company, Ideas come before Ideals and Eccentricity before Experience. And the most interesting thing about this business: You never know what or who is going to be the next big thing. This is The Square Peg Round Hole
The intended audience for this piece of writing is struggling entrepreneurs. These employers or owners can belong to either big business or
(ONC) is to coordinate “national efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information … to improve health care” (Health and Human Services [HHS], n.d., website). However, sharing confidential information found in the electronic health record (EHR) for research and quality improvement potentiate legal, financial and ethical challenges.
Charles Jackson, Chief Information Officer (CIO) at McConnell Spice was recently tasked by the Board of Directors to find qualified knowledge sharing companies that would increase productivity, permit for better time utilization, and allow the company to maintain global acquaintances. Jackson’s main priorities entail determining which company would be suitable for the position, and impressing the board. Charles has to attain all needed resources to surpass the Board of Directors expectations.
Bill Gates first took an interest in computer programming when he was 13 years old, while attending school. The school used funds from sales and donations and was able to purchase the students an ASR-33 Teletype terminal and computer time on a General Electric computer terminal. Bill, instantly intrigued, was able to get excused from his regular classes to work with the computer. Bill, then, gained his interest in computer programming. He was able to develop a program where the students could play the computer in a game of tic-tac-toe. This was the beginning of Bill Gates career (Bill Gates, 2011).
CEO at 22. I was thrown in the deep end, quite literally. Physicians, PAs, and nurses who were once my mentors and supervisors, were now under my management. I felt blessed yet overwhelmed at my new appointment as the chief executive officer at HUDA Free Clinic. I was suddenly expected to have all of the answers, a seemingly tall order at a time when the clinic was forced to rediscover its niche in light of the Affordable Care Act. I realized that undertaking this task would be a part of my progression towards becoming a better and stronger person. It served as a crucible for this phase of my life, that would prepare me for the journey ahead.
When deciding who is a great leader Gigi Darricades the CEO of Valley Wide Health Systems Inc. Gigi was born and raised in Chile in the city of Chuquicamata. From there her parents got a passport and were able to come to the U.S, but she was not able to get one and there for went to boarding school in Canada and later when she turned 18 she entered the U.S. that way. She then attended a Community College because of the out-of-state tuition being so high this was the cheaper way to go. Gigi worked as a TA or teacher assistance and selling auto parts, she did this for 6 to 7 years. The University of California Berkeley was her next stop and got a Bachelors of political science and then later went back to that same college, went to the school of public health where there was only 12 students and graduated with a Masters in health care administration. She later moved to New Mexico where she worked at Presbyterian Hospital and ran the rural hospital and later merged the two together. After that she meet her husband and moved to Utah where she worked for a multinational health care doing rural health care. Which was hard because the culture was mostly men and not female oriented. After that she then attended Law school in the University of Utah. Gigi thought her husband was going to get transferred to New Mexico for his job, she went ahead and took the state board there. After all he did not get transferred there, but they did end up going to Wyoming and 18 months later took the
Ever since I was 2 years old, I have made blueprints for inventions ( and some crazy stuff that isn’t physically possible or necessary ). From cars that clean the house to a system of pulleys designed to keeps rats out of our attic, inventing has always been a key part of my life. Then, I had thought that my dad new how to do anything, so when I approached him with my drawings he would just laugh, we still have the pictures I made of some robots I wanted. For a 7th grade science project we had to make a Rube Goldberg machine, it was so much fun for me that in the same year I decided to program. My hobby in programming started on Khan Academy, the lessons taught you how to make basic shapes and even games or websites. Occasionally I practice
Big business versus small business has been an issue since business started. Small businesses need to have a solid structure and a large backing of consumers to survive against big business. Josh Novak had a successful model for Glow-Foods and International Food Group (IFG) saw that. They were so impressed with his IT plan at Glow-Foods, they offered him a job at their IT office with a team to help their demographic. Josh was excited yet hesitant as he knew IFG was
Gil Reihana is a smart, young, ambitious, and educated entrepreneur. After graduating college with an information technology degree, Reihana inherited a substantial amount of money. With investments from multiple family members & coupled with his inheritance, Reihana launched X-Stream. X-Stream is a technology company that assembles personal computers and sells them through chain stores & independent retailers throughout New Zealand and Australia. The company gained a reputation for having “quality hardware, customized products, excellent delivery times, and after-sales service” (McShane &Von Glinow, 2013). In
More entrepreneurs tend to be heart dominant which can become problematic as ideas needs to be scaled. At this critical juncture of a company’s life cycle it is important for heart dominant folks like Tim to either pass the baton to someone else or to recognize their limitations and surround themselves with others who can