Creating and Protecting Team Culture: A Worthwhile Fight Despite too much coffee, here I will attempt to riff about company culture, because many organizations talk about it like it’s a thing they have, something plugged into an outlet that employees can admire. I’ve heard it before, and I’ve seen companies use their culture as a
Read More...If you’re having problems deploying PeopleSoft Web Services because of ws-security issues (I think we all know that security is a paramount concern when pushing any new web services into production), Dave Bain over at the PeopleSoft Technology Blog might have the help you’re looking for: I was speaking with a customer a few days
Read More...If you don’t think it’s possible to be excited about a thermostat, well, I’m here to say you haven’t been paying attention. I just got my Nest Learning Thermostat installed, and it’s way more interesting than you might think. And yes, it’s just a thermostat. You know, for your home. One of the key figures
Read More...We wrote about PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management 9.1 Feature Pack 2 a couple weeks ago, focusing on the asset and maintenance management aspects of the feature pack release. Unveiled in January of this year, Feature Pack 2 (FP2) is turning out to be quite a powerful addition to FSCM 9.1. Over at the
Read More...A few weeks ago, Jeff Haden’s The 5 Qualities of Remarkable Bosses made the web/social media rounds. As well it should have: it’s a good post. Read it if you haven’t already. What’s weird is that we’ve seen articles like this before. Because my mind is wired backwards (boy if I had a dollar for
Read More...Jack Tramiel, the creator of Commodore computers, has passed away at 83 years of age. It’s safe to say that if it weren’t for him, you probably wouldn’t be reading this, and I certainly wouldn’t be writing this on a Mac in a nerdy text editor with line numbers in a proportional font that reminds
Read More...The ravages multitasking inflicts upon your mental state and productivity are (finally) getting some ink. Multitasking used to be something highly-evolved corporate warriors did well. It used to be a badge of honor, like calluses on athletes. I remember the days when you’d ask an employee to manage another project on top of his already-full
Read More...If you observe Easter, we’re heading into a holiday weekend. As such, you need things to talk about. I would give you all you need about playoff hockey, but since about 9% of the population seems to care, I’ll instead arm you with all sorts of web esoterica. Hang on. Google announces Project Glass, their
Read More...Life, Links & Stuff I Found While Clicking on Things It’s been a while since I’ve blasted our readers in the face with a nonsensical, wandering post about lots of disjointed topics and links, so I figure I’d fix that right now. Get ready to become stupider. Definitely DO NOT read this while drinking alcohol
Read More...Some great news for one of our new clients: Ensco, an offshore Drilling Contractor, was again rated #1 among all offshore drillers in an independent customer satisfaction survey. From the press release: Ensco led all offshore drilling contractors in the survey, also receiving top honors in 12 of 16 additional categories including health, safety and
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