The economics of Google Reader, and the $250K Mac
This post from Austin Frakt at The Incidental Economist looks at the producer and consumer surplus of Google Reader, and makes an important point (albeit using made-up numbers) about how value can be created on both sides of a transaction, even for a f…
How Tiger Could Have Made Better Use of Spend Management Technology (Part 1) ?
Joy here, Gentle Spend Matters Readers. Methinks Jason doth oink too much. Jason would have you think him a rakish, man-about-town ladies’ man, telling the pros how it’s done. So that we don’t hurt his feelings, we’ll indulge his delusion, and prete…
More Advice for CEO’s
Last week, I shared some advice for CEO’s as gleaned from colleagues at Enterprise Irregulars. A few more chimed in this week, and I thought I’d share some more advice to enterprise software industry CEO’s.Greg GianforteFix your messaging finally. It…
SOA adoption: The human face of governance
Human and organizational factors such as politics, information silos, and change management generally underlie IT success and failure.
2010 Watchlist: Mining the Off-Peak Cloud
Over the next week or so, I’m going to highlight several emerging trends in computing that I believe will be very much worth watching in the coming year as important sources of innovation and competitive advantage for those who harness…
CRM Watchlist 2010 – Part I
Decisions. Decisions. Decisions. Oh, wait, you probably think that I’m talking about which companies to watch in 2010. Nah. I already made those decisions. I’m talking about how to deliver the list. Should I do it the splitscreen method? One big post? Several parts? Well, I’ve made my decision. Three parts, over a few days. [...]
More Of Naomi’s “Killer” Scenarios: Discontinuous Organizational Changes
Mohorovicic Discontinuity — diagram by USGS, red line added by Geology.com
This is the last, at least for a while, post in a series I’ve been doing that suggest some “killer” scenarios for HR leaders and their teams to use when considering how to design their HRM processes and their HRM delivery system. These are also [...]
Rosslyn Analytics’ New Twist on Spend Visibility (Part 2)
In the first of this two-part series on the new enterprise spend analysis product from Rosslyn Analytics, I tackled some of its spend visibility basics, such as how does the solution handle data, acquisition/management, enrichment, and basic spend qu…
Advice for CEOs
I feel very honored to be a member of the Enterprise Irregulars group – a very plugged group of people, with lots of hands-on knowledge and experience. I asked them what advice they’d like to give to enterprise solutions company CEO’s, and I got the f…
Days of Our Lives – On IIT Life, Indian Education, and Geekdom
Like to wish all my readers, a very warm happy holidays and merry Christmas. I don’t watch a lot of Bollywood cinema but yesterday I went with friends to go see 3 Idiots – a movie about lives of 3 engineering college students during the four years in s…
