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May 4, 2017 In SDM 101 By Jaakko Pellosniemi

The Chain Reaction of Decision Making

Shit rolls downhill - anything crappy coming from the top of the chain of command will hit everyone down to the bottom. This includes bad decision making, disciplinary actions, or simply a superior taking his frustrations out on subordinates.  The butterfly effect refers to the idea that a tiny change, the flap of the butterfly's wings, can cause a tornado by changing the initial condition of the system. The concept implies that small causes can have large effects....

April 27, 2017 In SDM 101 By Jaakko Pellosniemi

Personality traits and decision making

Personality traits and decision making The 7 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs, The 10 Most Important Personality Traits for Career Success, 8 Personality Traits of Effective Business People, Top 12 Personality Traits Influencing Organizational Behavior – we are used to discussing personalities in the context of succeeding in life and in work. When success is determined by our capability to make decisions and especially in today’s complex and constantly changing world, by our ability to collaborate for stronger...

February 13, 2017 In Release By Jaakko Pellosniemi

Fingertip 4.0 is Here!

The New Way to Decide,   It would be so nice to blame the industry for letting the customer to grow so demanding. Consumer apps have really rocked it with simplicity and ease of use. Delivering a pleasant user experience in instant messaging, commenting on shared videos, ordering a car ride or even paying your bills is still rather easy. But try to create flow for the use of an enterprise app! In today's corporate environment, enterprise...

Fingertip built in Lightning component Framework.
September 27, 2016 In Dreamforce 2016, Lightning Components By Jaakko Pellosniemi

Join the Salesforce Lightning Experience

Dreamforce is just around the corner and without giving away too much it looks like this will be the biggest for us so far.  At Dreamforce you will be able to experience our decision making application, which is built from over 80 Lightning Components. My first attempt to build applications from components dates all the way back to 1992. I worked at IBM in Charlotte, NC and we were trying to build applications with Smalltalk and...

May 6, 2016 In Business By Jaakko Pellosniemi

Collaboration – What’s the fuss?

Let’s start by looking at what collaboration actually means, where does the word come from? So glad you asked. Collaboration comes actually from a conglomerate of a French word and a late latin word. Tracing collaboration back to its origins, we arrive at collabōrō, which means to work together. Turns out this working together was already important during ancient roman times. But at the same time it’s one of those empty phrases you might find in...

April 29, 2016 In Fingertip App, Release By Jaakko Pellosniemi

The biggest release in our history

When I started Fingertip I asked myself, what if we could solve all the pain and frustration that go along with poor organizational decision making. What if we could create a place to commit to decisions and create accountability. What if I would actually be able to influence a decision that will affect my work. What if we could solve all the pain and frustration that goes along with poor organizational decision making. What if...