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
Read More...“If you need a machine and don’t buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don’t have it.” — Henry Ford This is from a book by Clayton Christensen called How Will You Measure Your Life, in a section discussing full costs vs. marginal costs. In our experience, this
Read More...Here’s Henry Blodget, writing for Business Insider: Over the past few days, the latest round of purported pictures of Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 5 have hit the web. And I can’t be the only potential customer who is deflated by what they see. In fact, I’ll go far enough to say that, if the iPhone 5
Read More...In prior posts, we have generically discussed utilizing PeopleTools 8.5x to improve business intelligence within PeopleSoft. Our message is definitely resonating with our customers as they are now looking for unique ways to take advantage of these powerful enhancements. For example, we worked with a customer to create a buyer homepage dashboard. This dashboard is
Read More...Buckle up, you guys. This is a long one. Right up front, let me be clear about bias, because that’s a word that can get tossed around after posts like this: I am an unabashed iOS/OSX user. My technology sprawl includes two 27 inch iMacs, a Thunderbolt Cinema Display, a MacBook Air, an iPad ‘3’
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