I’m going to experiment with a new format for our Friday posts for a while. Instead of jamming a collection of links into a list to let you sort out, mainly through clicking on them, I’m going to jam a collection of links into a list with section headers because it looks much more impressive.
Read More...Taketh Recently, my daughter and I were sitting on the floor in her bedroom going through a huge bag of notes she saved from high school. There were notes from her girlfriends, boys who were ‘just friends’ and yes, the dreaded boyfriend too. They had been stuffed in her closet for the past 14 years!
Read More...In previous blog posts (see here and here) and our Business Intelligence Manifesto whitepaper we have discussed the importance of aligning metrics and goals from top to bottom in the organization. Aligning metrics and goals allow the organization to measure its performance consistently against the key objectives of the entire organization. This means that every
Read More...“I didn’t go along with the cash-shredding of [the dot-com boom]. I didn’t take venture capital, hire 200 people, and spend money like crazy. I had the mentality of, “I don’t care if I’m running a lemonade stand or a dot-com, it’s the same thing. How much do the lemons cost and how much are
Read More...A: Oracle, as the event organizer, will ensure the focus of commercial banking dayton oh on delivering a reliable Asset Lifecycle Management program through people, process and technology. A: Simply stated, there is no Bankruptcy HQ event where you can meet as many customers and people in the Oracle EAM community. A: Aligning with the
Read More...Not one, but three good reasons for you on this fine Monday: A: The Oracle Maintenance Summit is NOT an event for which we are asking people to invest in travel and hotel to hear Oracle and partners sell their products and services. It’s not a sales pitch in any way whatsoever. It’s a collection
Read More...Just think: only nine more months until I can type 11/11/11 in the title of a Friday Linkology blog post. Isn’t that exciting? No? In fact, you say, it’s the exact opposite of exciting? I actually agree, but I went with it because I usually lead into the Friday links with some sort of pointless
Read More...People and organizations are “doers” by nature. We want to build something, provide some service, and support operations. Too often, we “take the bull by the horns” and start solving problems because we believe we know what needs to be done — like implementing Oracle or PeopleSoft. Sometimes we get lucky and…it works! Many times,
Read More...A: The Oracle Maintenance Summit is an exclusive invitation-only event for leading maintenance practitioners. Maintenance software, or EAM (Enterprise Asset Management)/CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System), is key to improving productivity, which directly affects the bottom line and contributes to an organization’s ability to compete in the global market. We here at MIPRO have been a
Read More...You know what we’ve found? Magical things happen when employees know they’ll get to be king for a week. Gone is the complaining about what management is forcing them to do, because rotating management gives them a clear perspective of both sides of the fence. Employees will step up and grow if you give them
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