People Putting an Extra 50k Miles Or More On Their Cars
Read this an it immediately resonated with me. According to a study by Auto MD, which is owned by the US Auto Parts Network, Inc. (i.e. people who have a vested interest in making parts for used cars) 77% of people are, on average, planning on driving their current cars at least 50,000 miles more [...]
Just another Oracle Sunrise, Or, A Consolidation Sketch
Everyone else seems to have gone with the Sunset, so I figured why not call out Sunrise instead… while some Sun technology is going to get nuked, and some people too, there are still plenty of solid assets to consider when parsing what Oracle is going to do. One advantage of being a couple of [...]
Do risk and compliance have a part to play in reducing pollution?
Do risk and compliance have a part to play in reducing pollution? EQ2 certainly thinks so.
Steve Burt, the founder and CEO of EQ2, is a former economist having worked at senior levels with Dun & Bradstreet and British Petroleum. His approach, which he calls Granular Resource Economics (GRE), enables companies to quickly see at a [...]
Enterprise Software’s blind spot
A Project is a temporary activity or sequence of activities with a specific goal initiated by an issue, an idea or a request, often with multiple participants. It is usually unstructured, at least somewhat unpredictable and hence Barely Repeatable. There…
Friday Rant: What’s Holding Ariba Back? (Part 3)
In this final post in this Friday Rant series on what’s holding Ariba back (see Part 1 and Part 2 here), I’ll continue to delve into the services question that looms large over Ariba’s current offerings, future vision, and channel partnerships. I bel…
Shift Happens! revisited
Way back in August 2006 a teacher called Karl Fisch at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, USA created an 8 minute PowerPoint presentation with some music. It aimed to highlight the rate of change of the world we live in, and remixed content from David Warlick, Thomas Friedman, Ian Jukes, Ray Kurzweil and others. [...]
Friday Rant: Coupa Sam Talks Smack to Ariba Spendman
This is a rant. I won’t pretend to dig into details of the accuracies, fallacies, and potentially overlooked comparisons in Coupa’s latest napalm drop on Ariba. No, I’ll save the meat of my analysis for a regular post or two next week that takes a more objective look at some of Coupa’s claims in its [...]
Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/19/2010
Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: World’s top firms cause $2.2tn of environmental damage, report estimates | Environment | The Guardian Report for the UN into the activities of the world’s 3,000 biggest companies estimates one-third of profits would be lost if firms were forced to pay for use, loss and damage of environment [...]
