It’s funny. I was going to write a longer post today, maybe the last truly good day for blog reading, just before the holiday frenzy begins in earnest next week. I was planning to talk about how 2009 was a forgettable year for most people, both personally and professionally, and that I wouldn’t be lying
Read More...Jeff Kaplan (@thinkstrategies on Twitter), writing for E-Commerce Times, has an excellent list of major SaaS/cloud evolution milestones we saw in 2009. I have included the list in its entirety below. Jeff’s full article is here. Wheeling and Dealing 1. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) surpasses US$1 billion in revenue. Hitting this financial milestone clearly shows that
Read More...Absolutely fascinating: Dinotopia artist James Gurney posted this video about a "change blindness" experiment. 75% of the participants didn’t notice that the experimenter who bent under a counter was replaced by a different person. Says Gurney: "Here’s proof that most of the time we look but don’t see." I think Matisse said something to the
Read More...Foreign Policy asked their top Global Thinkers to recommend their favorite – or most important – books. The responses range from children’s books to biographies to policy manuals to fantasy novels. Here’s the full list of their suggestions.
Read More...Skipped our Friday Links feature last Friday in favor of a silly quiz, so we have some catching up to do. Got (good) milk? You almost certainly don’t. Warren Taylor is out to change that. Dragon Dictation for the iPhone is has been released (free for a limited time), and it’s nothing short of amazing.
Read More...Here’s some excellent business advice for the organization as well as the individual from Charlie Hoehn. It centers around two basic precepts: (1) instead of calling something a failure, call it an attempt; and (2) the basic grist for the success mill is just doing things. My favorite part of The Dark Knight is when
Read More...This is part 2 of our exclusive interview with Dave Loesch, Oracle’s Sr. Director of Enterprise Asset Management. Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 MIPRO Consulting: What would you say to a customer about PeopleSoft Enterprise EAM versus, say, a best-of-breed MM solution? Dave Loesch (Sr. Director, Enterprise Asset Management at Oracle): Pay
Read More...Forbes’s Marc Kramer with an excellent list of questions that hearken any business’s fundamental reasons for existing. The questions themselves are below, but you should definitely read Kramer’s whole piece. What is our purpose for existing? Who is our target customer? Why does anyone need what we’re selling? If there is a need, is it
Read More...Good advice from Aaron Swartz: To find out whether someone’s smart, I just have a casual conversation with them. I do everything I can to take off any pressure off: I meet at a cafe, I make it clear it’s not an interview, I do my best to be casual and friendly. Under no circumstances
Read More...Nenshad Bardoliwalla with an excellent list, but #5 jumped out at me: SaaS / Cloud BI Tools will steal significant revenue from on-premise vendors but also fight for limited oxygen amongst themselves. From many accounts, this was the year that SaaS-based offerings hit the mainstream due to their numerous advantages over on-premise offerings, and this
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