I’m fortunate to say that I work in the exciting profession of sales – for more years than I care to say. As with any profession or job, it can be very easy to go on autopilot in terms of how you do certain things. In my years, I’ve had countless ‘first call meetings’ with
Read More...VentureBeat: Share an authentic picture of what it’s like to work within your company. Instead of filling your career page with industry-recycled ways in which you fulfill someone’s career, consider pointing out true positive aspects of your culture, in addition to the areas that may frustrate a potential employee. This article resonates with us, as
Read More...Since you have nothing to do today except brave the Black Friday crowds and shake the carbohydrate-scented webs of yesterday's food coma off, I figure you probably want some interesting things to read. Lucky for you, we have a nice collection of stuff for you this weekend.
Read More...Given what we do as a consulting firm, we have to be a keen observer of the latest industry trends and advances in the technology marketplace. It is, after all, what our clients talk to us about daily. Here are some thoughts about the cloud trend and Oracle's direction in that space.
Read More...MIPRO's popular Friday Linkology is up on its blog. Give it a look when you have a chance.
Read More...If you’re anything like me, you totally nerd out over what to read, checking editorial and user reviews until your ISP shuts down your connection. With so many books to choose from and so much review information to obsess over, wouldn’t it be nice to have yet another review source to consider? Of course it
Read More...Yes, you’ve heard it over and over again. Organizations make substantial investments in technology hoping to improve business practices. In the early stages of projects, the focus may indeed be using technology to improve the business, but as deadlines approach, this focus invariably narrows to enabling an on-time go-live. But there's more -- much more.
Read More...Is this finally the beginning of the vaunted ‘enterprise penetration’ Apple has been seeking for years? And Java notwithstanding, how much of the luster of this alliance is driven by Apple devices that are succeeding in the enterprise, namely the iPhone and iPad? (Never before has Apple succeeded in wooing C-level brass to their devices.
Read More...Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it’s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world. —Matt Mullenweg, founding developer
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