And a Happy New Year?

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

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It’s that time again! Break out the champagne (replaced with store brand ginger ale), put out some tasty hors d’oeuvres (substituted with frozen pizza bites), and celebrate the New Year in grand style with fine food and friends (better make it a simple potluck in order to keep the budget under control).

And what a year it was. Hopefully you survived 2010 and even thrived, but many are looking forward to the end of the holidays so that more attention can be put on getting business back to normal once more. With that kind of push behind it, projects will begin gathering momentum again, and 2011 will hopefully bring greater potential of prosperity and growth.

Pundits are telling us that recent changes in technology during 2010 will be the strong resource focal point for this new year (something all us can pretty much predict for every year). What companies are also looking for are ways in which to implement these concepts without incurring large expenses from the get-go. At the top of this tech list are Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence, Web 2.0, and Virtualization projects--not just because of their general appeal, but because they can be put in place quickly and without incurring great expense.

The usual general difficulties will no doubt arise as they did over the previous year--a need to grow, but without the finances and resources necessary to …

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