Forbes’s Marc Kramer with an excellent list of questions that hearken any business’s fundamental reasons for existing. The questions themselves are below, but you should definitely read Kramer’s whole piece. What is our purpose for existing? Who is our target customer? Why does anyone need what we’re selling? If there is a need, is it
Read More...Good advice from Aaron Swartz: To find out whether someone’s smart, I just have a casual conversation with them. I do everything I can to take off any pressure off: I meet at a cafe, I make it clear it’s not an interview, I do my best to be casual and friendly. Under no circumstances
Read More...Nenshad Bardoliwalla with an excellent list, but #5 jumped out at me: SaaS / Cloud BI Tools will steal significant revenue from on-premise vendors but also fight for limited oxygen amongst themselves. From many accounts, this was the year that SaaS-based offerings hit the mainstream due to their numerous advantages over on-premise offerings, and this
Read More...As mentioned yesterday, here is part one of our exclusive interview with Dave Loesch, Oracle’s Sr. Director of Enterprise Asset Management. Dave was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to talk to us about what EAM is, who should use it, its challenges and how quickly it can provide value to
Read More...Tomorrow, I will post the first segment of our exclusive interview with Dave Loesch, Oracle’s Sr. Director of Enterprise Asset Management. Dave was kind enough to accept our invitation for an interview about the Enterprise EAM market, Oracle’s role within it, the challenges customers face and how quickly organizations get value from a mature EAM/Maintenance
Read More...It’s no surprise whatsoever that 2009 has been a challenging year for many businesses, ours included. Everyone has had to adapt, make difficult decisions, and come to the realization that their projections might not come to bear due to circumstances far beyond their control. All you need to do is scan the headlines and quickly
Read More...Excellent essay by Paul Rand about how demanding many solutions to a problem leads to lower quality, waste and confusion. One of the more common problems which tends to create doubt and confusion is caused by the inexperienced and anxious executive who innocently expects, or even demands, to see not one but many solutions to
Read More...Over at Manufacturing Software Advice I found an interesting (and fully interactive) timeline of manufacturing and ERP software. For anyone in the business who wants to have a nicely-summarized origin of their trade – as well as how emerging technologies are changing the market’s plate tectonics – this timeline is an excellent primer. Recommended. Like
Read More...It’s widely known in foodie circles that if you want to get an immediate read on how good a chef is, ask them to make scrambled eggs. It’s a simple dish very prone to subtle missteps by chefs of all calibers, and these missteps – or absence thereof – will be what determines how good
Read More...Ignoring the terrifying fact that it’s Friday the 13th and my yogurt this morning was clearly expired long before its November 26 sell by date (spooky, no?), the Internet had a pretty good week. And by good week I mean I found lots of things that were interesting to me, and in the name of
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