QUOTE: On technique
“The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.” — Raymond Chandler (Thx Signal vs. Noise)
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Friday nonsense: How to be happy in business plus assorted (but very useful) links
I’ll begin with Bud Caddell’s smart Venn diagram illustrating how to be happy in business: …to which Caddell appends the following: Over the years, I’ve found myself facing the following scenarios. (and I’ve added my two cents on how to move forward) We can’t determine how to make enough money from the things we want
Read More...An introduction to PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM): Part I
We’re asked very frequently about PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM), so perhaps it’s time to lay down a few primer posts about what ALM is and why enterprises are becoming so interested in it. This post, the first of four parts, will discuss PeopleSoft’s ALM solution suite. As a general intro, the product was released
Read More...How ERP vendors can change the world and create new adjunct markets
Vinnie Mirchandani has some interesting ideas about how ERP vendors could be truly disruptive and create thriving, adjunct markets around the concept of sustainability. There’s a truism underpinning Mirchandani’s post, which I have mirrored in its entirety below. The truism is that sustainability and energy science is one of the emerging, global, multi-billion dollar industries
Read More...Twitter as viewed by those who don’t understand Twitter
I know several people who acutely suffer from this affliction. (Via teh tumblr)
Read More...Why should you consider a Real Estate Management application?
If you’ll indulge me a moment: our firm has become a noted authority on the PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution suite, particularly along the Maintenance Management (MM) and Real Estate Management (REM) lines. (Our own PeopleSoft Maintenance Management whitepaper is a popular download.) It’s in this context that I’m going to recommend Joshua Greenbaum’s
Read More...Caring for Your Introvert
This Atlantic article by Jonathan Rauch is over six years old, but it’s one of the only magazine pieces I have read that liberates me from sometimes feeling like a complete misanthrope. Oh, for years I denied it. After all, I have good social skills. I am not morose or misanthropic. Usually. I am far
Read More...The new rules of email
Vinnie Mirchandani, writing about the cost of storage and how we should reduce email, nails what I’ve been thinking about for the past year: that today’s email is becoming marginalized and relegated to the dark corner of the internet reserved for full-on time-wasters. There’s a reason so many productivity gurus (Marc Andreessen, David Allen, Merlin
Read More...Quote: On simplicity
“There is something infinitely touching when an artist, in old age, takes on simplicity. The artist is saying: display and bravura are tricks for the young, and yes, showing off is part of ambition; but now that we are old, let us have the confidence to speak simply.” —Author Julian Barnes (Via Signal vs. Noise)
Read More...Cisco’s vision of the smart grid
I’ve read wisps of ‘smart grid’ technology in documents describing upcoming enterprise software functionality (namely, PeopleSoft), but the macro market is clearly shaping up. Cisco – whose networking gear is heavily smattered across the internet infrastructure landscape – sees a $20B/year opportunity to give the aging, analog electrical grid a much-needed digital facelift. Cisco’s move
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