The Castle Part 5

L.A. Lorek Express-News Business Writer Within 36 hours, volunteers transformed a vacant Montgomery Ward’s building into a Hurricane Katrina relief shelter that also later served Hurricane Rita evacuee. Graham Weston, who owns the Windsor Park building, which had been vacant for five years, called assistant city manager Chris Brady Friday afternoon on Sept. 2 to…

Windsor Park Mall in Northeast San Antonio was San Antonio’s Sixth Mall and it’s third largest. The project was announced Thursday January 10, 1974 by Melvin Simon & associates. It opened 2 years later with Grand Opening celebrations on July 29, 1976. It opened with 90 out of 116 shops occupied with the rest coming…

I must hear the word Cloud Computing 20 times a day. I hear it on NPR and TV. And there’s unending chatter about it in the blogosphere. Last month Rackspace co-founder Pat Condon and I were having lunch with a Rackspace customer who is a tech guru in his own right. He put his hands…

Today I had business breakfast with five leaders of exciting multi-billion dollar company (we’ll call them Sugar Corp) that prides itself on great customer experience. Sugar’s execs explained to us that their firm used a system called Net Promoter Score (NP Score) to measure customer engagement. They said this measurement was so important to Sugar…