How did I made it this long without discovering that MTX did a Herman’s Hermits cover?
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We started to serve Indian food here
In downtown Pittsburgh, there’s a storefront in the ground floor of a parking garage on Cherry Way between Forbes and Fourth that’s currently home to the incredible Arepittas, which is well worth a visit if you love arepas or empanadas.
Prior to Arepittas, the space was occupied by a flurry of restaurants, including a divey incarnation of Primanti’s and a fast-food breakfast spot.
My favorite in the line-up, though, was a brief-lived few months where, after ownership changed hands, the name of the place seemed to change to We started to serve Indian food here – with another sign directly below it advertising empanadas.
Unfortunately, my allegiance to Sree’s meant I never got around to trying said Indian food, and eventually the space changed hands again, so I’ll never know whether it was any good.
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Pagers and implementations and change management (oh my!)
A couple weeks back, NPR’s Planet Money ran a phenomenal episode on organizational change management vis-a-vis paging systems at hospitals.
I’m a dork, so I came for the pagers and stayed for the change management.
The episode introduces what initially appears to be a straightforward IT project – a hospital system upgrading from old-fashioned one-way numeric pagers to two-way text/photo messaging – and some unexpected non-technical problems that brought the implementation to a halt.
The case study is brought with commentary from Michaela Kerrissey, a Harvard management prof who offers a framework to look at factors that can cause organizational resistance to new technology: Risks, Habits, Identity and Power (RHIP). Spoiler alert: all four come into play in the pager case.
This episode is a must-hear for anyone starting out in ERP implementation or similar careers. Really excellent content.
Michael Aquilina 