An Asker won’t think it’s rude to request two weeks in your spare room, but a Guess culture person will hear it as presumptuous and resent the agony involved in saying no. Your boss, asking for a project to be finished early, may be an overdemanding boor — or just an Asker, who’s assuming you
Read More...Using extremely sophisticated technology (eyeballs) mated to a complex algorithm (time) with intelligent data filters (subjectivity), I have trawled every square inch of the internet to bring you the absolute finest HTTP products from this past week. Enjoy. I’ve said before that Apple needs to deflect the discussion away from Flash (what it can’t do)
Read More...CIO Zone has a very good list of what they consider to be 12 of the hottest emerging tech trends for the enterprise. One in particular — Asset Intelligence — caught my eye. Here’s their synopsis: Today, with advances in auto-ID, sensors, remotes and wireless devices, it’s now possible for any and all business assets
Read More...Attending the OHUG this year in Las Vegas from June 13-17? If so, be sure to catch our education session, entitled Popular and Common Customizations for PeopleSoft Benefits Administration 9.1. This has been a sought-after topic for us in the past that has immediately helped organizations streamline how they use PeopleSoft Benefits Administration and the
Read More...Nothing says Memorial Day quite like unearthing and clearly displaying the very reason the internet exists in the first place. You might think it’s to encourage near-real-time communications, enable business to address global markets, remove time and culture barriers, or to build incredible applications for organizations of all stripes. It’s not any of those. The
Read More...(Continued from part one, here.) Some process engineers (just like project managers) will quickly point out how their discipline recognizes a need for change management and accounts for it by including change management activities in their methodology. Indeed, the control phase of a DMAIC is about maintaining defect reductions – keep that trendline going down!
Read More...In anticipation of the 2010 World Cup (11 June – 11 July), Nike has released a promotional ad that mixes feature film, brand development and flat-out hype of an event that will captivate a good percentage of the world for a month. The production value is absurd. I’ve always said Nike is one of the
Read More...Let’s start with the obvious: business process redesign, process engineering and business transformation all strive to affect an organization’s bottom line. Companies like Motorola, USAA and Toyota have reaped substantial benefits from these endeavors resulting in disciplines like Six Sigma, Lean and World-class alignment being commonly recognized as best practices across industries. And yet, so
Read More...One of my favorite bloggers, behavioral economist Tyler Cowen, gets profiled (probably much to his chagrin) in the Washington Post. John Gruber with Apple-Verizon Political Calculus, 2010 Edition. Facebook privacy: A bewildering tangle of options. The Chronicle’s Melvin Konner on how childhood has evolved. Law and Order: the doink doink sound. Bill Watterson’s letter announcing
Read More...Manufacturing Software Advice has a very good two-part expert roundtable discussion of the 2010 state of the industry for manufacturing software. Part one reports buying activity, spending patterns by business size/industry, and primary drivers of current buying activity. Part two, published just last week, reviews activity in the SaaS market, how vendors are adjusting prices
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