Gold, Commodities and Procurement Strategy — A Big Disconnect
We scanned a familiar headline in The WSJ earlier today that gold was up yet again. Specifically, “Gold for December delivery, the most actively traded contract, rose 0.2% to $1,144.10 an ounce … [and is] set to end the week higher by more than 2%….
Chatter from (and About) Salesforce.com
I spent a lot of time this week (unintentionally) tuned into Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff’s extremely enthusiastic – and extremely long – DreamForce keynote address and (intentionally) thinking about the implications of the company’s ‘biggest breakthrough ever’ which is destined to ‘revolutionize the workplace’. The announcement of Salesforce Chatter – the company’s newly announced [...]
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Friday Rant: Mattel — Proving That a Few Chips of Lead Paint is Worth $50 Million+
Just a few years back before anyone thought that Chinese suppliers would make a regular thing of cutting corners and putting lives at risk by shipping tainted toys, food- and baby-products and drywall, there was an original incident that stopped ever…
The Future of ERP in a Disrupted Market
Thomas Wailgum writes some good articles and is frankly one of the few writers on the subject of ERP and enterprise software who appears to have some real knowledge of this market. His most recent piece on The Future of ERP is a sound reporting of the happenings of the last year since the world’s asset [...]
Where Are The Snowdens Of Yesterday: A Cautionary Tale
Do you know the story of MSA (Management Sciences America)? That once proud business applications software vendor dominated the market for financial systems in the early 80’s, when it was the largest such software vendor by far. By 1991, it had been relegated to the software graveyard. And if you read about it’s flamboyant, larger than life CEO, [...]
Friday Rant: Spend Visibility and Services Spend Visibility Must Come Together
If you stirred the marketing and solutions caldron from services procurement software providers of late — from pure-plays such as IQNavigator and Fieldglass to suite providers like Ariba and Emptoris — you’d see a similar message bubble up to the s…
