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		<title>How to Milk a Cash Cow: How Profitable Companies Transform for the Worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy C. Hice STARLIMS Corporation An old business partner of mine always used to sprinkle the following quote into a conversation a couple times a year. “A company is most profitable just before it goes out of business.” I’ve poured over numerous quotation databases but have never found the author. Who knows, maybe it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did James Bond’s Creator Invent RFID?  The Sample Labeling Conundrum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy C. Hice STARLIMS Corporation My earliest memory of RFID-like technology dates back to the 1960’s television show, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, a show inspired by the James Bond movies of the early 60’s, but accessible to a weekly television audience. Many people think the show was a Bond rip-off, in truth Bond creator Ian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.starlims.com/2011/12/07/did-james-bond%e2%80%99s-creator-invent-rfid-the-sample-labeling-conundrum/</link>
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		<title>The Mobile Addiction: The impact of new high-speed cellular networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy C. Hice STARLIMS Corporation It’s hard not to notice the impact of the cellular phone on the world these days—not all of it good. I was out to dinner with my family at a Japanese hibachi restaurant and a teenage girl was seated between her mother and her brother, holding her cell phone over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.starlims.com/2011/11/16/the-mobile-addiction-the-impact-of-new-high-speed-cellular-networks/</link>
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		<title>In your Face: Cisco’s TelePresence is Mind-blowing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy C. Hice STARLIMS Corporation We all love it when something exceeds our expectations; it’s just unfortunate that we are not blown away more often. I recently worked on a laboratory informatics project where we made liberal use of the Cisco TelePresence system. Yes, this is videoconferencing, and yes, it deserves a rather high-flying name [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.starlims.com/2011/09/20/in-your-face-cisco%e2%80%99s-telepresence-is-mind-blowing/</link>
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		<title>Apple Harvest: How Apple’s indifference to big business generates opportunities for us all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy C. Hice STARLIMS Corporation The marketing machine that is Apple is in full bloom this summer, and expect the buzz to begin to build regarding the iPhone 5, to be released next spring.  How good is Apple at marketing? Look no further than the iPad—a device epitomizing the “solution looking for a problem” slogan.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.starlims.com/2011/08/03/apple-harvest-how-apple%e2%80%99s-indifference-to-big-business-generates-opportunities-for-us-all/</link>
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		<title>Process Mishap: When Chickens shut down a Laboratory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy Hice Senior Manager, Strategic Consulting Few things spike the energy level in corporate meetings better than slinging a well-timed buzzword. Gifted practitioners weave gems into everyday speech with such stealth that the recipients barely feel the blow. Greener executives tend to memorize a few of these and wait for a gap in a conversation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.starlims.com/2011/06/17/process-mishap-when-chickens-shut-down-a-laboratory/</link>
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		<title>Demo Fatigue: ‘Tis better to consider value than flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy C. Hice STARLIMS So, the recent spate of air traffic controllers waking up to find an exact imprint of their keyboards across their faces after a much needed, but somewhat hazardous dose of shuteye remind us all that mental fatigue’s impact traverses a broad spectrum of pernicious results. Of course, everyone understands that when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.starlims.com/2011/05/06/demo-fatigue-%e2%80%98tis-better-to-consider-value-than-flash/</link>
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		<title>Hoaxes: Read on and forward to ten of your friends!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Randy C. Hice Senior Manager, Strategic Consulting STARLIMS I seem to have become a de facto fraud investigator judging by the amount of emails forwarded to me by my friends. These are not your Nigerian 419 schemes (AKA: Advance Fee Schemes, or “I need a home for $1,800,000.00 of my funds. Can you help?), but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.starlims.com/2011/03/03/hoaxes-read-on-and-forward-to-ten-of-your-friends/</link>
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		<title>House for Sale: Quaint 21,000 sq ft home with view of mountain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Randy C. Hice STARLIMS Corporation A couple of years ago our local swim team year-end banquet was threatened by a band of thunderstorms spilling over the Rockies to our west.  As the president of the swim team at the time, I was faced with cancelling the shindig, and disappointing about 400 swimmers and parents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.starlims.com/2011/02/02/house-for-sale-quaint-21000-sq-ft-home-with-view-of-mountain/</link>
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		<title>Innovation is costly: Why so many informatics companies struggle to fit ancient technology to the New World Order of LIMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Randy C. Hice Do you love SPAM? Not the meat product of dubious origins, but the electronic flotsam clogging your inbox, and consuming incredible amounts of bandwidth worldwide (some estimates are than 95% of all email is spam). Of course you hate SPAM, so why don’t we rid ourselves of this annoying menace once [...]]]></description>
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