I do a lot of thinking about Amazon, because I feel it’s on the verge of massively disrupting Google and, on a much, much larger scale, retail as a whole. Today, let’s talk about retail. Here I mean retail across the board, save specialty stores (Apple, Bose, etc.) and emergency sundry retailers (pharmacies, some grocery
Read More...A Parable of Recommendations and Decisions So, how often do you really change the oil in your car, truck, or SUV? Do you follow manufacturers’ recommendations? You know, the last three cars I owned had completely different advice: one owner’s manual said every 6,000 miles, one said every 7,500 miles, and one has a snazzy
Read More...Henry Blodget for Business Insider: Facebook’s stock has dropped by half since the IPO three months ago. And the stock price is now well below the level at which most employees have been granted stock in the past 18 months. This means that most current and former Facebook employees are worth far less than they
Read More...Webinar: Adding Facilities Management to your PeopleSoft Solution MIPRO Consulting and Oracle would like to invite you to a webinar entitled Adding Facilities Management to your PeopleSoft Solution For years, when you talked to people about a “full suite” PeopleSoft solution, they would tell you that the solution had three elements – Human
Read More...MIPRO Featured in The Oakland Press Survivors of any kind almost always seem to have unique stories and Milford-based MIPRO is something of a survivor, having been created in the aftermath of a corporate takeover that left hundreds of employees marooned. But like survivors, MIPRO founders came up with a way to put their feet
Read More...Jim Dalrymple over at The Loop posted what I’ve been thinking since Apple’s decisive victory over Samsung last week: Because it was so blatant in its copying, Samsung was the most obvious target and allowed Apple to set precedent for its patents. That was the precursor to going thermonuclear. Google says its not worried about
Read More...It’s been a while since I’ve done a good old-fashioned link post, so here we go. I have a huge backlog of stuff I’ve found while looking around the Internet, and I always think knowing this stuff will make me more interesting at parties. It doesn’t, but I think your luck will be better. Joe
Read More...Here’s Stuart Lauchlan, writing for businessCLOUD9: In the increasingly febrile battleground of Cloud HCM (Human Capital Management), Oracle’s racked up a couple of nice deals for its Fusion HCM from existing PeopleSoft users – the kind of wins it needs to stave off competition from Workday and SAP. First up, banking and financial services group
Read More...ZD Net contributor Joe McKendrick wrote a great blog about three reasons to hate BI dashboards. His opinion is certainly one that I share, and many of the blogs I have written here in the past try to focus on how to avoid these pitfalls. McKendrick’s post can be found here. Essentially his three reasons are: Dashboards haven’t
Read More...I’m not posting this because I think it’s amusing. I’m posting it because I think it’s powerful and because we don’t see enough of this anymore. The backstory: As a high school lacrosse team was waiting to board a flight to a Summer tournament, one athlete took it upon himself to sneak into the pre-board
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