Weird Myths in Business – Guest Post by Steve Greene
One of the reasons its fun to work at salesforce.com is the extremely creative, talented people that are willing to question absurdities that other companies quietly accept.
Steve Greene, a colleague and our vice president of program management and A…
Vodafone’s Creative EPS Improvement Plan: Doing More Than Slashing Heads to Massacre Costs
I find it almost humorous that the business and trade press so often equate corporate cost reduction with nothing more than layoffs or, as the Brits like to say, redundancies. Consider the case of Vodafone, which The Guardian reported just announced …
My Droid Review
Image by doctor paradox via Flickr My wife came home with a Droid yesterday, which on one hand was pretty cool while on the other very disturbing as she is by no means a geek and not once did she ask for my opinion on this device. I suspect that some kind of counseling may [...]
The CRM Playaz FutureShock & See Y’all After Amsterdam
Hey all. I’m heading off to Amsterdam in a few hours to speak at the CRM Association Benelux nations “national” conference (regional national, I guess). I’m also getting a chance to meet up with Wim…
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P&G — Where Revenue, Savings and Sustainability Go Hand-in-Hand (Part 2)
In the first post in this series highlighting how P&G is not only improving its overall CSR profile but also driving savings and revenue by embracing sustainability at all levels in its supply chain — from retail displays to supplier management — I…
Launching #BPMcamp
Image by jdlasica via Flickr Almost four years ago, I wrote a post about how we needed a BPM unconference. Today, Scott Francis of BP3 announced that they’re organizing one, although it’s focused on Lombardi customers and products. As I said on my comment on his post: I believe that there is a place for [...]
Beyond Spend Classification – Examining Oracle’s Latest Procurement Enhancements (Part 2)
In yesterday’s column examining some of the latest solution enhancements from Oracle in the Spend Management arena, I paid particularly close attention to how the provider is attempting to become more flexible with available deployment models and app…