Laser Week
News on lasers of all sizes hitting targets of all sizes… let’s start small – hey, small is beautiful, after all. Besides, this is one laser you could own at a reasonable size one day. Small Gun, Lots of Small Targets Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold currently runs aptly named Intellectual Ventures. At TED (not [...]
Toyota’s Recalls, Manufacturing Liability and Personal Responsibility
The news cycle on Toyota’s recalls as been relentless — and I suppose this is appropriate given the automotive manufacturer chaos of the past year coupled with western culture’s pre-occupation with product safety. But I can’t help but feel — and I …
Layoffs are bad for service firms
Service firms have used layoffs with greater frequency. But, shouldn’t people-oriented businesses exercise even more care in using this ‘management tool’? Newsweek has a great cover story that kicks off this discussion.
Friday Rant: Six Things Procurement Outsourcing Firms Are Hiding From You
The procurement outsourcing industry — like nearly all BPO segments — is founded on big numbers (volume, savings, revenue, headcount, etc.) and somewhat variable margin; sometimes low, sometimes surprisingly high. It’s also an industry with surpris…
Friday Rant: What’s Holding Ariba Back? (Part 2)
In the first part of this column from last Friday’s Rant, I shared a few thoughts on what I thought was holding Ariba back from even larger growth, from the perspective of solution and customer communications. In the second installment of this rant t…
Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/12/2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: Iberdrola Renovables Buys Spain’s Largest Wind Park (Update1) – BusinessWeek Iberdrola Renovables SA, the world’s largest operator of wind parks, agreed to buy Spain’s largest wind farm from Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA. Renovables, based in Valencia, paid Gamesa 320 million euros ($441 million) for 244 megawatts of power [...]
The SaaS applications wiki – open for business
Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK. I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the [...]
