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hey, boss!

I'm Jim MacLennan, and in my day job I'm an Executive Director of Information Technology at a large manufacturing company. I spend much of my time connecting with various business units, helping to define, capture, and drive key business objectives, and defining, scoping, and championing innovative thinking and relevant projects that support those objectives.

motivations

I'm not looking to change the world one blog post at a time, or engender social change here - but I do have strong skills and experience in two important "geometrical" regions of the business / technology domain:

At the intersection - where business and information technology meet, understanding the breadth and depth of the latter, but able to drive for relevance in the world of the former.
At the edge - as businesses and their economic and market environments change, how does that translate to the here and now of technology? Similarly, as information technology evolves, what opportunities for innovation present themselves for competitive advantage?

I do believe in the power of personal publishing, the value of capturing and transferring knowledge, and the multiplicative effect of the network.

As such, my writings focus on the intersection and the edge, trying to capture actionable, sustainable best practices for the application of IT to business. I don't pretend to have the final answers, but I do like to identify cross-disciplinary ways of thinking, just to get the innovation going ...

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content

Within these pages you'll find ...

thoughts (blog) - for thoughts, observations on the all of the above
resume (cv) - online resume, career and project highlights
networks - making connections with the world
source code - sample code, fully functioning, free to use - some hacks I offer for your perusal
site info - tech details on how I've put this joint together

questions? comments? suggestions?

I've listed all my contact specifics over to the right (hover over the buttons to see the specifics pop up)... I don't mind the occasional instant message (IM), feel free to ping me.

ok, what's "cazh"?

Just a slang term from my misspent youth -- it's short for "casual". Some dude in singapore beat me to the domain name, so I used my license plate (I'll pause while you appreciate the stunning originality).

That's what I get for wandering into the web at a "casual" pace.

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