Admission and Invitation

 The Admission 

My admission--I didn't read the directions.  My friend, Chad Norman, sent a very descriptive email explaining the proper use of this publishing tool, which I promptly filed without reading.  With that being said, my second post took somewhat longer to produce than I originally thought.  Suffice to say, I experienced self-imposed, technical difficulties that resulted in three failed attempts to publish my work.  I found the experience to be somewhat frustrating; however, I will attribute the late night effort to a learning exercise.  I opined on such grandiose topics as business process management and business process automation, the impact of social networking on the accounting function, and my findings as they relate to particular research topics (e.g. the future direction of report dissemination).  I plan to highlight those topics again in the very near future, but I wanted to publish a quick note to let you know that I the lights are still on at The Post blog (and, yes, I read Chad's email).

 The Invitation

As a product line manager, I spend a good deal of my time talking with clients and non-clients about their business problems.  Said another way, client input is an absolute requirement of the product management function.  With that being said, I hope to expand my current research partner list in order to solicit as many diverse opinions as possible.

If you are interested in contributing to the future direction of Blackbaud's financial solutions, please feel free to email me directly at andrew.payne@blackbaud.com.