Let me start this post with an adjunct: I am NOT an iPhone user – yet. I’ve been hanging on to my Blackberry 8130 since, oh, I don’t know – all the way back to 2009? It’s the phone that my customers and prospects reach me on every day. Now, just to make you all
Read More...An astonishing 37% of hiring managers are using social networking sites to research applicants, with over 65% of the group using Facebook as their primary source. The days of doing a routine background check using CRB Direct on your criminal past or even credit history have been widened to include voyeurism into your daily life
Read More...Time for some off the cuff riffing here. ABC News with Diane Sawyer has had several segments on finding products that are made in America. I am all for it. This idea is something about which I feel passionate. We do not have to buy everything buy in America, just more. And not much more,
Read More...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...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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