2009 - Year for Change

"The year of Change" seems to be everyone's motto this year. What amazes me is that people are claiming this to be the latest and greatest idea ever. Well isn't change something that occurs everyday? Isn't change something that should be occruing in your business everyday? Isn't change the only thing guaranteed not to change?

As I've been writing the annual "State of Procedo" address for our internal staff this past week, I looked back on the address from a year ago. In that was our "year of change" commentary. Focusing not only on the good points of the previous year, but how we can make the upcoming year that much better learning from our past mistakes that surrounded the negative items from the previous year.

It will be yet again the common theme for this year's address. You can only advance if you are able to learn from your past mistakes and leverage that going forward to make the change a positive change going forward.

Looking back wasn't 2008 a year of amazing change as well? The stock market CHANGED a LOT in 2008, but people are not jumping up and down excited for how it changed. The employment markets have changed, those standing in the unemployment lines and the stock market are not cheering this either.

So let's make sure when we focus on "the year of change" that we're actually focusing on positive and proper change to move forward and advance. Just like our customers are always changing their archive applications or storage, we move their Data Forward, the goal for 2009 has to be to have a Positive Year of Change, not just another 2008.

Change is inevitable, you must work to make it positive change, to move forward, to advance....