Author Archives: Mike Terry

What Businesses Can Learn from the NBA Champions about Technology

Cloud Computing, Mulit-site, VOIPBy Mike Terry June 5, 2020

They hadn’t won a championship in over 40 years. The coach was a rookie. Their superstar was young and relatively in-experienced in the playoffs. The team hadn’t even gotten past the second round of the playoffs in years. They were criticized for being a jump shooting team and going against the mainstream NBA way of…

Moneyball and Telecom

Bandwidth Infrastructure, business solutions, network solutionsBy Mike Terry June 5, 2020

In 1997, when Billy Beane took the general manager position for the Oakland A’s, a Major League baseball team with lower-than-average payrolls, the businessman/baseball player applied a new type of statistical analysis to find his winning team. Nine years later, the Athletics ranked 24th (out of 30 teams) in player payroll but had the 5th-best…