Should Retailers Fear Customers With Smartphones?
The rules are shopping are changing. Are you taking advantage of it? If you're a business, are you reacting to it intelligently?
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Random Acts of Kindness
As we head into the holidays, I’ve been thinking about something. And in the spirit of what you’re about to read, I decided to share it. It’s the time of year when our focus turns to scouring for the perfect gift to give. It’s stressful for sure, not to mention time consuming and sometimes downright
Read More...Oracle Is Making Friends, Showing Community Leadership
When Oracle acquired Sun, you could hear the internet cacophony scream: “Java is dead! Oracle will destroy it! It’s part of the monolith now!” Not so fast. It hasn’t been widely talked about (but deserves to be), but Oracle is doing pretty much the exact opposite of what those involved with Java and the Java
Read More...QUOTE: On Real vs. Words
We weren’t making a plan; I’ve never written a business plan. I’ve never written a business plan with any of my start-ups. With Meetup, I sketched, maybe wrote a few FAQs about how it would operate. We built it, went live, and people started using it. Then VCs called. Investors would rather invest in the
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 12/10/10
It’s been one of those weeks where there’s just so much great stuff to tell you about that I don’t know where to start. I really don’t. That’s a lie. I’ll start with this: One suggestion I have – especially if you’re an iPhone/iPad user – is to get Instapaper immediately and use it to
Read More...Energy Quality: One of the Causes of the Recession?
Smart and cogent – if not experimental – analysis by Carey King at the University of Texas at Austin. King’s data shows that Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is a metric that illustrates energy as a limiting factor on economic growth: In economic terms, the quality of the nation’s energy supply is referred to as
Read More...The Dark Days of Speed Trumping Value
Lately, all I seem to hear is, “How fast can you upgrade my HCM? How fast can you deploy my new Talent Management solution?” It’s all about technical achievement and getting ‘solutions’ in place as quickly as possible. What is this fascination with speed to implement/upgrade a technical solution without consideration for what value it
Read More...For Today’s Tech Blog Reading
We think this will make things a bit more interesting. (No fair if you apply it to our posts!) (Via SvN) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing in PeopleSoft Enterprise (particularly Enterprise Asset Management) and Business Intelligence. You’re reading MIPRO Unfiltered, its blog. If you’d like to contact MIPRO, email is a
Read More...Shape Shifters: Top Economists Adjust Their Predictions for 2011
CFO Magazine: While some made minor revisions, each is essentially sticking by what he said. What makes that particularly interesting is that now, as then, the predictions about the fate of the economy vary wildly. The intervening nine months have done virtually nothing to create a convergence of opinion, which calls to mind the George
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 12/3/10
It was such a frantic time on the Internet this week (as determined by my highly subjective evaluation method) that I nary have any word count allowance for an anecdotal preamble. Which is too bad, because I was going to go on and on about the piece of French cheese I purchased that I had
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