Marco Tapia

Marco Tapia

IT Consulting Services Senior Advisor at PicNet

Since founding PicNet in 2001, Marco has been responsible for its overall strategic direction, its consulting services and its business development. Marco's experience includes Company Director, CIO, Business Technology Consultant and IT Project Manager. He has managed large and medium size IT functions for national and international corporations.

Marco Tapia

May 5, 2010

Wasting your time managing staff rather than delivering the required IT services?

It is a well known fact that Information Technology professionals - AKA Computer people (mainly IT Support and Developers) are professionals with superior skills developed over time with keen intentions of keeping them up-to-date. Unlike many other f ...

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Marco Tapia

April 20, 2010

Four Corners' "Chinese Whispers" - Wake up Australia

On June 24th 2009 I wrote the blog "Please keep sending IT work off shore…. I need a new car!" Part of it highlighted the risk to National Security of not having sufficient and qualified IT skills in the future. From last night's ABC TV Four Corners ...

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Marco Tapia

March 29, 2010

How to create a customer service culture

Here are some basic tips of DOs and DON'Ts on how to create a customer service culture within your organization, in particular I highlight behaviour that needs to be exhibited to achieve superior service and also what management can do to entrench th ...

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Marco Tapia

January 27, 2010

Mouse Eye Tracking - How to get real value from your website

We are releasing on a limited fashion (during February) our new product the PicNet Mouse Eye Tracking service. The PicNet's Mouse Eye Tracking service provides a sophisticated, effective (and free) IT solution that maximises the investment in your we ...

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Marco Tapia

January 11, 2010

Generate Revenue and Forget About Offshoring

Taking on this great opportunity for CIOs, Rodney Gedda wrote on 9th December 2009: Generate Revenue and Forget About Offshoring, Advises ex-CIO. Marco Tapia PicNet - Information Technology Services IT Mangement and Support Services Software Developm ...

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Marco Tapia

November 24, 2009

Off shoring - Why bother?

Looking a bit further than the "rate" provided by off shoring services, you find a very deep pool of other issues that need to be considered before off shoring… and then you wonder, why bother? Unless your project is huge and demands enough resources ...

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