It’s become a habit for companies in their marketing to acknowledge the state of the economy today. It’s as if they believe that if they acknowledge that times are tough, then immediately they’ll bond with their customers and all will be well. Because, you know, customers will get that these companies understand. There’s more to
Read More...Today, if you’ve been scanning the wires, you’ll note that we’ve announced a brand-new services arm focusing on Business Intelligence (BI). This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to people who follow us on Twitter and read this blog regularly; about three weeks ago, we announced our hiring of Larry Zagata, an established BI guru,
Read More...I suppose entering a new year is generally a cause for reflection on my part, and I tend to begin the year reviewing some Stephen Covey or similar classic in the self-management field. I find it sets me on the right path for the year, and gets me thinking about what is important in the
Read More...IBM Smarter Math: Correlates nicely with the best 3 jobs you can have, as ranked by the WSJ: mathematician, actuary, statistician.
Read More...Below is a video that I think all of us could use as we live our lives and try to do what’s best for our businesses. No matter how difficult things are, it’s never the time to simply give up. Way too often a cliché with nothing behind it, here’s someone who is forced to
Read More...Over the last six months, one of the most frequent requests we’ve been getting is for low-cost, high-yield, quick-turnaround packaged services that tackle some main technical hurdles of PeopleSoft implementations. These aren’t standard, large-project based engagements: these are geared more towards productized services than traditional professional services. What we’re finding is that despite the slow
Read More...Underconsideration.com has a great showcase of brand/logo redesigns done right and horribly, horribly wrong. The top honor winner, Dave Egger’s own 826 Valencia, is astounding. To wit: Likewise, WGN Superstation, the worst offender (in my opinion), is downright, well…horrible. It’s like 1988 meets Big Brother and a metric ton of eyeshadow. Can’t see how this
Read More...Fantastic post by Don Dodge over at The Next Big Thing about the mentality necessary to endure tough economic times: Chaos brings opportunity. A recession makes companies think about saving money. They consider small vendors that they wouldn’t do business with in boom times. Competitors go out of business. Be in a position to take
Read More...Michael Sippey proffers the absolute best list of real-world project management lingo that is (unfortunately) really, truly out there and really, truly used by people who should really, truly know better. My favorites: Clue bat Coconut shuffle Come to Beavis meeting Consistify Eating the elephant one bite at a time Gantt flotsam Happy status Hit
Read More...Google has posted its 2008 zeigeist collection, which is a compilation of the most popular searches, by category, that flowed through Google search boxes throughout 2008. As always, there are some interesting finds for 2008, and certainly it’s easy to see how these were so top-of-mind: Fastest rising global search: Sarah Palin Top three searches
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