Last day ...

Yesterday, I had my last working day at Altana/Nycomed. When I came in for the last days I heard that more than 10 people from the IT department had proactively resigned within the last week.

The massive lay-offs that are planned at the Konstanz-site are also discussed in various blogs:
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Article finished

Finalized the article for Computerwoche, issue 15/2007. A link to the article will be available here as soon as it is published. I am very interested in any feedback from the readers.

Money for nothing - Update

I transcribed the letter I received from the chamber of lawyers in response to my complaint about the interesting behaviour of lawyer Olaf Tank. Scroll down or follow the link in the post title.

More writing

Since I am having a long vacation before joining my new employer, Gartner, I have found some more time for writing.

In a near future issues of Computerwoche I will discuss how the CIO and an internal IT department can get involved in business process improvement initiatives. The focus will be on the challenges and pre-requisites.

The other article is outlining how clinical operations can be improved by applying BPM to improve processes and systems. The target audience is clinical operations managers. This article is co-authored by Dr. Mathias Poensgen, a very knowledgable Nycomed colleague who is head of department for Clinical Operations / Systems and Processes. If you are a Xing-user, you can find him here.