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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…
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“Get Better” – Fail

In the spirit of Getting Better – I’ll inaugurate this blog with the SEP Blog Battle. The title for this week is one near to my heart – “Get Better”, so I’ll jump right into it. Though not exactly a new idea, I thought I would express my love for failure. I don’t mean the […]
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Patterns for Getting Your Ideas Heard

Here at SEP, we have some pretty awesome engineer-led sessions…book clubs, academy courses, and [brown bags](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bag_seminar) (just to name a few).  Recently, I gave a brown bag on a topic that I am excited about – getting your ideas heard.  I wanted to give this brown bag for a few reasons- I heard a common theme […]
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SEP Book Review for Persuasive Business Proposals

3Q Book Review: Persuasive Business Proposals

Persuasive Business Proposals by Dr. Tom Sant What’s the point? The point of this book is to write clearly and concisely, to differentiate yourself, and to better equip yourself with tools for writing persuasively.  Ultimately, this book is designed to help you and your company write winning proposals. How was it? Good.  I honestly felt […]
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SEP Featured in BioFutures Magazine 2011

Strong Company Culture Helps Software Engineering Professionals Succeed By: William “Rusty” Wilburn, Biofutures Magazine 2011 Challenging as it is, getting a startup off the ground is just the first step in creating a successful business. Building a company culture that attracts the brightest employees and best clients is critical to sustaining long-term success. Software Engineering […]
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Jeff Gilbert Receives Honor Alumni Award From RHIT

Jeff Gilbert, President and Founder of SEP, will be honored Saturday, October 2, 2010 with a Rose-Hulman Honor Alumni Award. The recipients are selected based on their (a) loyal, unselfish and meritorious service in furthering the interests of Rose-Hulman, (b) contributing to the national interest of our country, (c) professional achievement. Rose-Hulman honors four alumni […]
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Conversations in Outlook…

If you’re anything like me, you probably get a TON of email each and every day. In addition, you probably get emails that span a conversation over multiple days. Well, Outlook 2010 has this amazing feature called, Conversations. This will transform your inbox to look/feel more like a threaded forum (or, more like your gmail […]
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Software Engineering Professionals Supports Agile Community

Annual Agile conference provides the industry’s most comprehensive exchange of ideas and best practices Carmel, IN July 14, 2010 – Software Engineering Professionals (SEP), an employee-owned company today announced its sponsorship of Agile 2010, the leading international conference on Agile methods in software development set for Aug. 9 – 13 in Orlando, (https://agile2010.agilealliance.org). As a […]
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SEP Book Review of The Toyota Way

Book Review – The Toyota Way – Jeffrey Liker

What’s the point? This book focuses on Toyota’s manufacturing process and the Lean attributes. The book takes you through the philosophy and the bare bones implementation of the production models and practices that make the Toyota Way sustainable in other companies. The interesting point of the book was that there were many companies claiming to […]
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SEP Book Review for Coaching for Improved Work Performance

Book Review – Coaching for improved work performance – Ferdinand Fournies

What’s the point? This book focuses on the idea that you can get better performance out of employees through positive coaching. Rarely do negative actions result in anything other than fear and poor performance. The book gives techniques and tips for improving performance and tackling potential problems. Strategies are presented for dealing with employees that […]
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