Erick Van Houtte
caféLounge ... within Context
Think and Act within Context for ... Effective Decision Making ...  Efficient Operations ... Practical Processes, Tools, Organization and Knowledge

within Context


within Context (wiContext) is my caféLounge for individuals, teams and managers - businesses - who need methods, expertise, common technologies, organization and experience within Context to
  • ‘Think and Act within Context for ... Effective Decision Making ... Efficient Operations ... Simplified Technology, Organization and Process

Go to www.erickvanhoutte.com/Blog/ for a fully interactive blog, with comments, more features.

Every decision should be made with context (background, circumstances) and in context (current factors and conditions) of a given situation.  There are always reasons why things were done a certain way and led to a current situation.  The art and science of decision making must consider the combination of past and present to make an effective decision for the future.

Many "gut" decisions are made by people who believe they know better, so do not need to understand why things were done a certain way, they just assume they know better.  History repeats itself:  if you are not sure, learn about some of the biggest failures/man-made disasters....after the incident, you always hear "we knew this was going to happen, here is why...."

We will discuss methods to use common tools such as MS Office, Dropbox or SugarSync, OneNote or EverNote, Hotmail and SkyDrive or iCloud, Outlook or public webmail (gmail, live.com, etc) or private webmail, on Mac, Windows, IOS, Android, on the cloud (or not), hosted website vs a blog, etc – or all of the above together.

We will leverage practical expertise and useful experience for proper organization and application to drive result, within Context to
  • ‘Think and Act within Context for ... Effective Decision Making ... Efficient Operations ... Simplified Technology, Organization and Process

(this topic is my obsessive/compulsive behavior - according to my wife)