Are You Solving the Right Problem?

By Dean Whittaker It has been a busy month of learning for me. I concluded my year-long course in “Innovation Methodology” at the NewNorth Center for Design in Business by submitting my thesis on the use of a future scenario process to inform and engage education,...

The Joy of Learning

By Dean Whittaker One of my greatest joys is learning. Perhaps, it is yours too. If you’ve been reading our newsletter for awhile, you know its intent is to share with you what I and my other teammates at Whittaker Associates have learned that month. Hopefully, our...

About Learning ANYTHING

By Dean Whittaker One of the book recommendations this month is The 4-Hour Chef: Learning Anything by Timothy Ferriss. In his book, the author shares the joy of learning and describes a process of deconstructing anything we wish to learn into its basic components by...

End of the Year Clean Up

By Dean Whittaker The end of the year is a good time to clean out our closets or delete old files. With this in mind, we would like to clean up our newsletter mailing list. We spend a great deal of time and effort each month to create, edit, and publish the...

Trust, but Verify

By Dean Whittaker We have all heard of “the cloud” when it comes to computing, but few of us fully appreciate the risk associated with it. This month we had a bit of a set-back when we learned the vendor that hosted our lead-tracking application had experienced a...