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This website is a "work-in-progress" and a place where I can experiment with different ways of using the Internet to showcase my interests and consulting efforts. As a changing, growing website, expect change: new things will be added from time to time; existing presentations will be modified and expanded; some things will disappear, only to re-appear in a different format with different features. A work-in-progress!
We would appreciate your comments or questions and can be reached in the usual variety of ways:
- Interesting Quotations:
- Over the years, I have collected some quotations that have a particular resonance with my worldview and certain projects that I have worked on. Perhaps my favorite is this from Guillaume Apollinaire, a 19th century art patron. Very recently, I was exposed to a "snip" of J.R. Tolkien (Thanks, Tom Ables!). And, a list of favorite quotations would be incomplete without something from Goethe.
- hcpmi:
- Health Care Process Management, Inc. is the name of one of my primary consulting thrusts. In this effort, I help health care organizations improve the quality and reduce the costs of their patient care services. To achieve these ends, we are adapting and adopting techniques and tools from industrial process control, systems theory, reliability engineering, and information technology. In innovative ways.
While early in the development stages, we are involved in an assignment to help improve patient compliance with prescribed medication. The costs, in terms of lives, lost productivity, and increased treatment costs, of this problem are staggering. We believe that we have a unique way to address this critical patient care process problem. Come back later to see what we have developed. Visit the hcpmi pages now to learn about the tools and techniques.
- Obsidian Communications:
- Obsidian Communications is the "umbrella" under which I do marketing and business development consulting. Over the past year, I have shifted my emphasis to a focus on information technology for smaller firms, with an emphasis on the Internet.
Unlike many firms in this crowded field, we encourage our clients to eschew the lure of mass-marketing and to focus on targeted messages to targeted audiences. We stress the quality of the interaction and not the number of "hits." You will never see a "hit counter" on one of my client's pages!
Currently, the Obsidian Communications site is bare! Do have one "link" for you: The Hamline Conference Center. I am excited about the almost endless possibilities that an asynchronous conferencing capability adds to the Internet applications of my clients.
Like the shoemaker's kids, I've neglected my own marketing efforts to concentrate on the needs of my clients. This will change; come back and see.
Ward T. Bell
HCPMI or Obsidian Communications
3145 Dean Court
Suite 405
Minneapolis, MN 55416(612) 929-3731
e-mail: octsys@winternet.com