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In This Issue Project Snapshot Performance DNA™ The Inside Tip Your Star Performers Fear No Project™ Blog Cognitive In The News Cognitive In The News Cognitive Technologies Launches The Project Resource Management Survey 2010 You are invited to participate in the Project Resource Management Survey 2010! The purpose of this survey is to analyze the current state of resource management and its impact on projects. Additionally, results will be compared against 2009 survey results to understand changes in resource management practices. Results will be compiled and made available to all respondents. Click here to begin the survey. Project Resource Management Survey 2009 results are available. Click here to download. Top Companies Know What Affects Them Entrepreneurs need to balance fostering creativity & establishing structured processes. The two objectives often clash. How do growing organizations keep these ideas in harmony? More. Fear No Project™ Blog What do you do when you cannot get what you need or want by simply asking (or using brute force — as appealing as that might be)? Negotiation is one way to get most of what you want when you run into this situation. More. Contact Us 1250 S. Capital of Texas Hwy. Building 3, Suite 400 Austin, TX 78746 512.380.1204 info@cogtechinc.com Join Our List Click here to join our mailing list Find Us On		Project Snapshot: Microsoft® SharePoint® Redesign for Health Services Company Cognitive Technologies was engaged by a leading health services company to redesign the internal intranet portal, powered by Microsoft® SharePoint®. Project goals focused on reinventing the concept of SharePoint from a document storage area to an active information hub through the addition of new SharePoint 2007 functionality, fresh content, increased self-service and value-added solutions. More. Performance DNA™ to Improve Business Results Are you achieving the expected productivity and business results from all members of your team? Or, do you seem to be relying more and more on your “heroes” to get work done? We find these heroes, or key performers, in every industry, in all different types of job roles. You know who they are, and so do their peers. Statistically speaking, key performers are in the top 1-3 percent of the workforce for a specific job/role. Unlike traditional approaches that target substandard performers to identify ways to improve performance, Performance DNA™ analyzes the key performers in a selected job role. Our goal is to isolate techniques you can use to move the bell curve for this job role forward, increasing the percentage of the population who can perform at above standard levels. This performance gain helps you achieve greater productivity without adding additional staff or exhausting your star performers. More. The Inside Tip Did you know that Microsoft® SharePoint® has a versioning feature that allows you to store, track and restore items in lists and files in libraries as they change? Many organizations find versioning especially useful when project teams are large, or when documents require many review cycles. Versioning can be utilized in all default list types: calendars, lists, libraries and web part pages. More. Five Reasons You Should Stop Ignoring (and Start Studying) Your Star Performers Star performers are the people who consistently produce desired results, sometimes even under difficult circumstances. This paper presents five reasons you should not ignore your star performers, and why you should study them, instead. Click here to download.