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...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
Read More...Let’s talk about wallets, because it’s Friday I have a touch of OCD and am constantly looking for ways to reduce my wallet to the bare essentials. Sound crazy? Yeah, let’s refer back to that OCD thing. Anyway, I’ve spent the last few years trying wallets of all varieties, and I think I’ve settled on
Read More...Our own Shannon Roche and Jim Henderson, writing for Health Management Technology about what it means to implement and optimize an enterprise asset management (EAM) system: The value of a successful maintenance-management program supported by an integrated software solution is profound. This combination can be the foundation for healthcare organizations to achieve full visibility to the
Read More...A quick bit of self-indulgence, if you don’t mind. As a (hopefully) regular reader of this blog, I thought I’d take this opportunity to share an good HR-related article that was recently featured in HRO Today. But first, I’ll provide some background on our Human Capital Management (HCM) practice, in case you’re not familiar. I
Read More...For years — insert dramatic music here! — I’ve been trying to find the right task management solution. I’ve tried quite a few: Google Tasks, Omnifocus, Things, Taskpaper, Clear, Wunderlist and even this new analog thing called pen and paper. Nothing stuck. I find a lot of these systems – some of which are modeled
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