Look Who’s Talking: ASUS, the Designer Brand
Brand vs. Quality. Which Would You Pay For? – I asked recently, making the case that “trusted old brands” like HP are producing inferior quality, while formerly “no-name cheapo” component maker ASUS is becoming a household name. They are basically doing what Honda, Toyota (and now the Koreans) did to the car business. Sure, ASUS [...]
H-1B Visas, the AFL-CIO and the Need for Change
The H-1B visa is not working well for visa holders, certain U.S. workers or the U.S. government. A report published by the AFL-CIO is a fascinating read on the subject.
The Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Process Model – Part I – Strategize and Prioritize
The classic performance management lifecycle that most theorists and practitioners use to describe the continuous cycle of performance improvement consists of four phases: strategize & prioritize, plan & execute, monitor & analyze, and model & optimize. This lifecycle represents the natural stages that most companies go through over and over again as they improve their [...]
Curious & Novel Writing Styles on the Web
New forms of web-writing that are interesting and inspiring.
Tuesday Link Roundup
- The Merc takes a look at the diminished luster of stock options for compensation. There’s two things here, the first being that between AMT and option accounting rule changes the attractiveness of options for employees and employers has taken a big hit. Most people in Silicon Valley, and the tech industry more broadly, understand [...]
The Answer is Taxes
Image via Wikipedia The Merc ran a story today that I have seen run twice already in the Chron about how sponsors of commemorative license plate programs are coming up short, pathetically short, of their goals. But a proposed plate that would feature a small image of the Golden Gate Bridge and whose proceeds would [...]
Gartner buys Burton and the Analyst Consolidation Question
With the news that Gartner is buying The Burton Group today, the topic of IT analyst consolidations is popping up again. While I’ve only been in the analyst world for 4 years now (come Feb 2010), working at a small firm has given me, I wager, more of a view into the machinations of the [...]
Fine-Grained Authorization & Resource Oriented Architectures with OpenSSO
A few weeks back, I had the chance to pop back into the Identity Buzz podcast to talk about the latest version of OpenSSO, namely the new OAuth-driven features of architectural considerations in the latest edition. Download the episode directly, subscribe to the Identity Buzz podcast feed, or just listen to it right here by [...]
People-centric IT for a new decade
Continuing my review of emerging trends that are going to be big in 2010, here’s one that I suspect will be a defining theme for IT throughout the coming decade. In one of my favorite postings of 2009 back in September, I called this trend The democratization of IT. Developing those thoughts over the past [...]
Blogger relations at SAP
Enterprise software vendors are an important part of the blogging ecosystem. Here’s how SAP is innovating in this area.
