Tuesday’s Tip: When To Go With A Two-Tier ERP Strategy
Single Instance ERP Harder And Harder To Justify The holy grail of an ERP implementation used to be the single instance deployment. However, market forces, a move to adopt new disruptive technologies, slow pace of innovation from incumbent vendors, and high maintenance fees have changed many organization’s perspectives. Add a slew of rapidly changing business [...]
Cloud, it’s a web thing
Having read (hat-tip Dennis Howlett) Randy Bias’ article at Kendallsquare on Debunking the “No Such Thing as a Private Cloud” Myth I have to say — rather like the apocryphal Irish direction-giver — if I’d wanted to make a case for private cloud, I wouldn’t have started from there. Randy and I joined a civilized [...]
Blood Macbooks — Apple’s Suppliers: Child Labor and Beyond, the Problems Compound
I’m typing this post on a state-of-the-art Macbook Pro. It’s silver (unpainted aluminum, to be specific) but depending on your CSR vantage point, it may as well be red. As in blood red. Just as it’s impossible to tell conflict diamonds sourced from w…
Elegant Organisations? Daily Simplicity? Fugetaboutit!
“Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem” Occam’s razor keeps it simple – “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity”. Or in short form; simple is better. A basic philosophy of science – simple is better. Einstein could be a signatory…
Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant: We Report, You Read and We All Decide
I usually have a more op/ed than reporting take on analyzing the news, but I thought I’d use this post to highlight some of the findings of Gartner’s latest Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant, authored by Debbie Wilson, to kick off the inevitable comm…
