Some interesting rumors floating about regarding Amazon’s wildly popular Kindle, most notably that given its price reduction history, it will be free in November of 2011. This is what Kevin Kelly is predicting: that Amazon will be soon handing out free Kindles, perhaps to Amazon Prime members. In October 2009 John Walkenbach noticed that the
Read More...From RSA Animate comes this utterly enthralling video. Worth every bit of the 10 minutes you need to watch it. This was adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA about what motivates us at home and in the workplace. Related — Daniel Pink: What Really Motivates Workers ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting
Read More...So here we go again on another Friday, this one thankfully peaking at a semi-human temperature of almost 30 degrees, rolling along with the new Friday Linkology format I mentioned last week. If you missed it, here’s what I’m talking about. Off we go! Know This Grant Achatz, one of the most renowned molecular gastro-chefs
Read More...A: The Oracle Maintenance Summit agenda will be fact-filled, customer-based and ERP-specific, addressing topics like: Addressing the Increase of Operational Performance and Contribution to Margin Growth within the Maintenance Organization Going Beyond EAM to Drive Value with product sets recently acquired by Oracle, known as “Edge Products” Passion, Conviction, and Collaboration in the Field of
Read More...As Oracle Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) continues to proliferate and the value of these modules become realized, one stands out as the last to be adopted by the marketplace: Property Manager (PM). As a customer-facing member of an organization that implements ALM, I am seeing more interest in PM as an integrated solution addition to
Read More...Derek Singleton, writing for Software Advice: Open source has been a great success for infrastructure software such as Linux, Apache and MySQL. Here at Software Advice, we’ve made use of all three. We’ve also made extensive use of open source development libraries like jQuery. For apps, however, we have either rolled our own or deployed
Read More...Here’s a smart and compelling analysis of the college cost situation by Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen, who comments on a dialogue between Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman. Cowen’s comments: David Leonhardt serves up a dialogue with Robert B. Archibald, and also David H. Feldman. Archibald starts by citing the cost disease and also the
Read More...I’m going to experiment with a new format for our Friday posts for a while. Instead of jamming a collection of links into a list to let you sort out, mainly through clicking on them, I’m going to jam a collection of links into a list with section headers because it looks much more impressive.
Read More...Taketh Recently, my daughter and I were sitting on the floor in her bedroom going through a huge bag of notes she saved from high school. There were notes from her girlfriends, boys who were ‘just friends’ and yes, the dreaded boyfriend too. They had been stuffed in her closet for the past 14 years!
Read More...In previous blog posts (see here and here) and our Business Intelligence Manifesto whitepaper we have discussed the importance of aligning metrics and goals from top to bottom in the organization. Aligning metrics and goals allow the organization to measure its performance consistently against the key objectives of the entire organization. This means that every
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