https://sharpstone.blog/tags/csdm/Recent content in CSDM on Sharpstone BlogHugoen-usFri, 02 Oct 2026 16:59:39 -0500https://sharpstone.blog/posts/straits-of-it-excellence-needs-building-blocks-and-blueprints/Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:59:39 -0500https://sharpstone.blog/posts/straits-of-it-excellence-needs-building-blocks-and-blueprints/<p><img src="https://sharpstone.blog/images/gas_station_blocks.png" alt="Building Blocks and Blueprints" title="center"></p> <h2 id="growing-pains">Growing Pains</h2> <p>Imagine you run a gas station that is really successful. People come from far and wide to fill up and to take advantage of your world famous homemade pastries. Everyone agrees that your coffee somehow makes the day just a bit better than the coffee from the service station right across the street. Naturally, you decide to expand - you have been doing everything by yourself but scale requires delegation. So you hire new employees, sketch out the need to add more pumps to the lot and even start looking for locations 2 and 3.</p>