Topic Overview: Business Intelligence Nov 6, 2008: Business intelligence (BI) is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information. It allows business users to make informed business decisions with real-time data that can put a company ahead of its competitors. Traditionally, core features like reporting and analytics have been the focus of BI technology choices, but as those features get commoditized, a whole new set of possibilities has emerged. Forrester's BI research shows that the technology is evolving and that enterprises on the cutting edge of these new trends can gain competitive advantage in their industries. Topic Overview: Interactive Marketing In A Downturn Nov 4, 2008: In these uncertain times, marketers expect to cut 3% of their overall marketing budgets. As an interactive marketer, how do you protect your digital budget and ensure funding for future campaigns? By constructing a business case of both numbers and success stories. This Topic Overview is designed to point you to relevant Forrester research that will help you justify your digital budget when the market is low. Topic Overview: Consumer Product Strategy In A Down Economy Nov 3, 2008: In this difficult economic environment, it is increasingly important for consumer product strategy professionals to base their product decisions on sharp insight and sound data. Forrester provides a variety of tools to help navigate the tightening consumer markets and evaluate the best opportunities for growth in turbulent times — these tools include, among other things, consumer benchmarks, product forecasts, and unbiased expert analysis on emerging markets. Topic Overview: eBusiness And The Economy Nov 6, 2008: The silver lining in the cloud of the global recession is that Web businesses are certain to fare better than their offline counterparts as consumers continue to shift their daily activities online. Forrester analysts have studied the overall effect of the economic downturn on consumer behavior online and the steps that companies in industries ranging from retail to travel to financial services can do to address these changes. For Web businesses to win, they must effectively address customer confidence issues, convey value in their products, and focus on customer retention. Topic Overview: Enterprise Apps Vendor Selection Nov 3, 2008: Choosing the right vendor remains a critical success factor for every enterprise's business success. Consolidation in the vendor market, a plethora of deployment options, and the progression to a next generation of applications built with service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services drive customers to augment, upgrade, replace, or migrate from existing systems. Forrester's vendor selection research provides a knowledge base of the basics, best practices, trends information, forecasts, strategic advice, and vendor and product comparisons that firms need to navigate the complexities of selecting, implementing, upgrading to, extending, or migrating to new solutions. Topic Overview: Strategies To Cut Application Costs Using Diagnostic And Monitoring Tools Nov 4, 2008: Once developers have implemented and stabilized applications in a production environment, the applications are placed in "maintenance mode"; thereafter, many receive little scrutiny. As time passes, business volumes grow and hardware components change. The processing efficiency of applications under maintenance can wane to a point where consumption of memory, storage, processor, and other resources becomes excessive. Whether the economy is doing well or poorly, applications professionals have the opportunity to avoid expensive server, memory, and storage upgrades by leveraging the available performance monitoring and diagnostic tools to identify, eliminate, and implement controls to prevent the recurrence of wasted application resources. Topic Overview: Must-Read I&KM Research For An Economic Downturn Oct 4, 2008: Financial bailouts, downward consumer spending, and roller-coaster stock markets are starting to put pressure on information and knowledge management (I&KM) professionals. Will industry consolidation mean gut-wrenching systems consolidation? How will budgets be affected? And how must I&KM leaders adapt their strategies? The good news: CEOs and CIOs still crave innovation, the need for trusted business information has never been higher, and many already in-flight collaboration strategies will bear fruit in the coming months by connecting dislocated organizations virtually to solve tough problems. I&KM pros must do three things during this period: squeeze more value from existing investments like enterprise content management (ECM) or business process management (BPM); assess their current costs; and seek out incremental project opportunities that deliver fast, visible results. In spite of budget pressure, I&KM pros must also keep a handful of critical "must do" projects on track and plan to jump-start innovation-driven projects that will help the enterprise "power" out of the economic downturn. Topic Overview: Forrester Methodologies Defend IT Actions In A Down Economy Oct 2, 2008: Forrester employs four methodologies — TechRadar, Total Economic Impact (TEI), the Forrester Wave, and Best Practices — that align with the decisions you face every day as CIO. This Topic Overview connects the four methodologies and summarizes key research published behind each in 2008. You and your organization should lean on these tools to articulate and defend decisions related to IT strategy, investment justification, vendor selection, and optimization of people and processes. Topic Overview: Member Experience For Health Plans Sep 2, 2008: Health plans can't afford to deliver subpar member experiences any longer. With a growing individual market, increased cost shifting, and a rising focus on disease and wellness management, strong member experience practices are the price of entry, and exceptional experiences are critical for differentiation. To rise above today's poor performance, health plan customer experience professionals must master the disciplines of strategic healthcare communication: Pave the way for lifestyle support by getting the basics right, adopting a member-centric approach to messaging, and employing communication measurement science. Forrester's health plan-focused and cross-industry customer experience research identifies emerging member trends, experience best practices, and measurement approaches that help health plans gain the skills they need to deliver strategic healthcare communication. Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For Enterprise Architects Aug 2, 2008: Most architects now recognize that service-oriented architecture (SOA) is much more than Web services (WS) standards and better application integration. SOA continues to gain industry recognition as a key element of strategic business transformation — which is a much higher level of business impact than mere application integration. Strategic SOA-based business services increase both business and application flexibility, providing a modular, digital-world implementation of your business that is ready to connect to any customer, employee, supplier, or partner wherever and whenever. Web services add value to SOA by providing a standards-based ecosystem and open access via loose technology coupling. For architects to lead their organizations on a successful SOA journey, they must understand SOA's overarching concepts, its relationship to business design, and its impact on governance, technology platforms, solution delivery life cycles, and architecture management. Topic Overview: Service-Oriented Architecture For CIOs Aug 6, 2008: The worst CIO misunderstanding about service-oriented architecture (SOA) is to think of it only as another technical initiative for software reuse. Although SOA's reuse potential is real and good, its business impact goes much further: In Forrester surveys, 44% of current SOA users say they are using it for strategic business transformation. SOA's true source of power is its ability to start from and focus on business design. By correctly understanding SOA, CIOs can lead their organizations on a solid and well-managed path to greater business technology value. Topic Overview: Corporate Social Responsibility Jul 6, 2008: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a topic is currently enjoying the limelight in shareholder meetings, political debate, industry events, advertising space, and other arenas throughout business and popular culture. Corporations worldwide are feeling pressure to respond to this trend, although questions of what to do and how much to commit persist. Forrester views CSR through the eyes of many different roles, helping clients to develop CSR strategies, share and coordinate best practices, and leverage existing and burgeoning technologies to facilitate its execution. Topic Overview: ERP Applications 2008 Jun 3, 2008: Enterprise applications suites, commonly known as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, represent the transactional backbone for most enterprises and comprise a variety of applications for finance and administration as well as industry-specific applications for business operations. Comprehensive ERP suites from leading vendors now typically span customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), analytics, and other applications traditionally sold as best-of-breed products. As vendors and enterprises enter the next generation of applications that support new deployment options like software-as-a-service (SaaS), deliver on service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles, and support business processes via Web services, Forrester's ERP research provides the knowledge of the basics, best practices, trends, strategic advice, and vendor and product comparisons that firms need in order to navigate the complexities across the software ownership life cycle. Topic Overview: Interactive Marketing Jun 6, 2008: Interactive marketing tactics are crucial for marketers who seek new ways to create relevant and engaging customer communications. Forrester's interactive marketing research studies current and emerging interactive strategies and channels to help marketers prioritize investment in interactive channels, understand best practices and potential pitfalls of the interactive channels, evaluate and select technology and services vendors to support interactive marketing initiatives, and integrate interactive efforts into their traditional marketing mix.
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High School Musical – It Is All About The Moral By Tsoof and Eden Baras
There is something to be said about teen flicks and something else altogether to be said about Musical, teen flicks. I am not much of a musical type person and the movies I tend to like lean more towards serious and heartfelt, but I have to admit this is the type of movie that manages to squeeze in jingle-type songs, famous young actors and a gazillion morals all into less than 2 hours. It is quite impressive.
I believe one of the reasons teen movies are suitable for…well, teens, is because there is always some hot young thing to drool over in order to snag their attention, and just in case you did not read the blurb before you watched it, the movie recaps everything under the sun that you could possibly want your kids to know – always be yourself, stand up for what you believe in, support your friends etc.
High School Musical is all about Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), the young basketball captain and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Anne Hudgens), the child Einstein. On New Year's Eve the two are forced to sing together but manage to exchange phone numbers afterwards. When the school year starts Troy is surprised to discover that Gabriella is a new student at his school in Albequerque, New Mexico.
The drama teacher, Ms. Darbus announces auditions for the upcoming Musical and Gabriella and Troy decide not to audition. Gabriella thinks she needs to focus on her studies and Troy thinks while Gabriella thinks his singing is good, his showerhead is the only thing that is very impressed with it.
As school life goes on, Troy tries to focus on his basketball and Gabriella on her science club but I guess it is not that easy because they both decide to admit their interest in singing and start to consider auditioning for the Musical. Troy's friend Chad is not
too impressed with Troy admitting to such a feminine tendency such as singing and uses the basketball team to bully him into forgetting the whole thing. Meanwhile others around the school take Troy's example and admitting to inner-most desires such as cooking, or dancing, instrument playing and more.
Troy and Gabriella, after a few embarrassing moments, audition for the musical. They quickly find out that they are being called back for a second audition. The basketball team needs Troy to win and the Decathlon team (Science club) needs Gabriella to win. The two teams devise a plan to separate Troy and Gabriella and ensure they do not go for the callback audition and everything goes down hill from there. Gabriella gets angry with Troy, Troy gets angry with the team and his dad, the Decathlon and the Basketball team feel bad about what they have done and no one is happy.
So while this movie is still young and undeveloped in terms of acting abilities (and that is only my opinion of course), it still manages to pass on a few messages. Be yourself no matter what. Stand up for yourself and for what you want. Be confident and true to yourself. Support your friends in what they want instead of trying to fit them into your own molds of what they should be like. Accept the fact that people are different. Be honest, lying will catch up and bite you on the ass. There is no end to the things you can learn from a movie.
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