Noel Wilson
Noel Wilson leads Avanade’s consulting practice in the Northwest United States. He is in his 10th year with Avanade and has over 15 years experience as an IT consultant building innovative technical business solutions. Noel is a graduate from Santa Clara University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Decision and Information Sciences and a Master’s degree of Business Administration.
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Microsoft Kinect is Not Just for Kids Anymore
Watching my kids dance to Donna Summers “Hot Stuff” on Dance Central 2 at the local Microsoft retail store I began to realize that this game console may single handedly solve the obesity problem in the United States. Rather than spending endless hours on the couch honing their hand eye coordination playing Halo or the [...]
IT Hero or Goat?
We all would prefer to be the hero of our organization. Successfully executing an IT program can make you a superstar. But, if you don’t get it right, you could easily put your organization in financial dire straits. Successful programs can result in improved efficiencies and reduced overall costs, leading to combinations of increased top [...]
Collaboration Tools, If you Build it Will They Come?
As IT professionals, we are responsible for providing the tools to help an organization collaborate. We address this by putting in place things like Microsoft SharePoint Server, MySites, Instant Messaging systems, telephone systems, Wikis and other tools. All of these tools are very important and will absolutely help facilitate better collaboration. However, just implementing the [...]
It’s a Cloudy World
In IT, we often do a terrible job explaining the simplest things. Take the concept of Cloud Computing. To most people not in IT, they can’t even begin to understand what it is. In fact, it’s downright cloudy! For my inaugural blog, I thought I would spend some time helping to clear the skies and [...]
