איזון בית/עבודה – סדנא אישית להתמודדות עם האתגר, בלי לצאת מהבית

איזון עבודה/בית הפך לנושא חם בשנים האחרונות. הדור שלנו עובד כל כך קשה כדי להשיג תוצאות מעולות, על חשבון המשפחה שלנו ופעילויות החיים. השיטה שפיתחתי: ״איזון חשיבתי עבודה/חיים״ כאן להצלה. השיטה תיקח אותך יד ביד ותעזור לך להתגבר על האתגר עד למשימות ברורות של איך לשפר את חייך!

Work/Life Balance - a challenge. Several steps to solve it once and for al!

"Work/Life balance" became a hot issue in the recent years. Our generation is working so hard to achieve great results, at the expense of our kids and life activities. "Work/Life Balance Thinking" is here for the rescue. Let's learn how to use it to improve our lives!

Preparing for your Job interview with "Job Interview Thinking" model

Interviews are always a scary thing while seeking for your next job and challenges. In this post, I am presenting an effective and professional model to use when preparing for a job interview. Every job interview will be easier now with this innovative model.

Seeking your ideal career path? Design Thinking to the rescue

How can Design Thinking, a smart methodology to solve problems and plan efficiently, which is mainly a team brainstorm on steroids, be leveraged to help individuals finding their next career challenges? Here are my 2 cents on how to do that, by changing a bit the Design Thinking workshop, using some innovative approach, to get the most out of it.

Design Thinking - everything you wanted to know and was too shy to ask...

So, you’ve probably heard this term a lot and may have wondered, “What is this Design Thinking thing that everyone’s talking about lately?” This is the time to learn how the Design Thinking methodology works, why it’s so efficient, and the steps taken to make it the most popular methodology today!

The Darwinism of Software and Human Behaviors

Not only Species were evolved according to Darwin, our environment evolved as well. Every material or feeling is either a species or species-creation, which evolved over time. Same are applications or devices which are human-creation. The first release tries to hit the target, its users needs, the 2nd release is adding more features after understanding better its users. The 5th release is a grown up — mature release, ready to rock. Darwinism.

The new place to be heard - Social Media - Do I need it? What is the huge fuss?

Learn why you must be part of the new battlefield, Social Media. How it can help you to meet your personal goals and how it puts you in a better place in business. "From the very ancient ages, human beings behave the best as a tribe. Being a community saved people lives and made them superior compared to animals. One of the basic characteristics of a community is that it is feeding its members with common knowledge and interests, sharing expertise and experiences..."

The First Year of a Brand New Product

Posts in this blog are usually my voice telling you about my experience and knowledge. This time, I am offering the following post, not in my own voice, but in the voice of my "baby", the Hyper-Scale Manager application. You might think this is a strange approach, but today we have robots that can dance, and cars that can drive themselves! If software could talk, this is what IBM Hyper-Scale Manager would say: "I was born a year ago. Here is the moment of my birth: It wasn't an easy birth…

Consuming Storage today, in the Cloud & Reduction era

The world has changed. The demands are different than the ones we had 10 years ago. Everyone wants fast, with high quality, no compromises. Same in organizations, employees are demanding the same and the Storage IT team is requested to cover the growing demands in the highest quality of service. Another metric that was changed is the amount of data - it grew exponentially and made the IT lab bigger than ever with multiple types of storage systems - hardware based or software based, from

The "Almost There" Generation

Ye, lets admit, we are all sick. Sick of doing average.  We are trying to be a “blast”, perfectionists, but cannot do that in our world today. We need to bring results fast, “faster than light”, better than our competitors and still bring high quality product.

Educating organizations to believe/invest in Design and User Experience

Although the current era is the Design era, where all the big organizations are proudly moving to Design Thinking process and methodologies, the truth it that adopting it is not an easy task, where people are still working with the old processes, as their habits educated them for years. In order to change priorities and give Design a high priority matter in the organization, understanding how to do it and invest money on it we need to have a culture revolution. Let me share how I did it in IBM

Analytics are your vehicle to success

Can we really work with all our applications daily and invest in them as we would expect from ourselves? We need to be productive every day, but also to be social, read news, manage ourselves and our devices, etc. So how can we spend so much time around these applications?

How to improve communication between Development and Design?

In many organizations, where a design team is involved together with a development team on a roadmap of a product, we hear about miss-communication, lack of understanding of each other and different motivations and priorities between the teams that cause to a big gap in what the design team designed and how finally it was implemented. Additionally, it may cause to a frustration and to lack of trust between the teams as they are not exposed to the decisions, to the research and to limitations in

How to convince our managers to invest money in UX/Design?

How can we still convince that investing in Design and user experience is good for our product and at the end - will drive revenues in a way that will justify it big time?

How to drive forward an exhausted team?

When a long project is ended, if we look beyond the applauses, we can see an exhausted team that went through a lot of pressure, challenges and extraction.  How should it be managed?