Day Without E-mail: February 1, 2010 #DayWithoutEmail
Here’s an idea. Let’s all agree not to send any e-mail at work on February 1, 2010. We can make February 1, 2010 a “Day Without E-mail.” We’ll all be able to file stuff, talk to people, call them, tweet to our hearts’ content(s), or get some real wo…
More thoughts on 12Sprints.com
This post is a follow up to my initial review of 12Sprints.com, the innovative new collaboration tool from SAP. That review was based on about a half day of using 12Sprints.com with a colleague or two, but without any real business need driving my use…
Thoughts on Gartner and the Burton Group acquisition
CIOs and IT managers today have far more options to get independent IT analysis on tech trends than they ever did. The simple fact is, industry analysts are competing with the Internet, competing with Google, for relevancy.
Gartner is doing a fine job, keeping the street happy with deals, while building its talent base with these [...]
Oracle’s Primavera Product Update
It’s been one year after the Oracle acquisition of Primavera. Has anything changed? What will Oracle do next with this product line? Should PPM competitors care or worry?
Nine Spend Matters Resolutions for the New Year
I’m sure you’ve been hit over the head far too much already with New
Year’s resolutions, on both the personal and
professional level. I won’t rant too long on the subject here,
but there are a few resolutions I think you might find useful as…
Enterprise systems: “Time to stop the madness”
Tension between waste and ubiquity creates a love-hate relationship among those who recognize the need for large systems and folks who consider them inefficient relics of a bygone era.
Dumb and Dumber – pipes
As I researched my upcoming book on innovation, I was struck by how much innovation there has been in telecommunications in the last decade. Alexander Bell, he of patent 174,465, must be looking down in awe. Apple, its app store,…
CRM Watchlist 2010 – Part IIB
This thing is so big that I have to split the posts. You saw my choices on Monday in Part IIA, now here’s the rest of them – Cognizant, Eloqua, Sword-Ciboodle, SAS, SugarCRM, Helpstream and Aplicor. Any others you would suggest? Why? Cognizant This is one of my most out-of-place and yet most appropriate picks [...]
Should Practitioners Pay for Both Gartner and AMR Separately?
There’s been quite a lot of chatter lately about whether
vendors and services providers should renew separately with both
Gartner and AMR Research now that the two firms are one. However, perhaps the more important question to ponder first is h…
Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List – Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know
High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1). In addition, rapidly changing business [...]
