Whats happens in India… stays in India
1) Which country, promoting its datacenter capabilities, do these fine gentlemen represent?
2) Can you identify this statesmen of the BPO industry (I’d just finished speaking, so forgive him his 40 winks…)
The inner life of failed IT projects
This drawing illustrates the inner workings of failed IT projects. You’ve got to take a look!
BPM Summer Camp: Business Users and BPMN
I presented today on the second part of Active Endpoints’ BPM Summer Camp, discussing just how much BPMN your business users and analysts need to know. Michael Rowley, CTO of Active Endpoints, gave a demo of BPMN using their system, including illustrating a number of the concepts that I introduced in my presentation.
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Spend Matters: Reporting, Analysis and Aggregation — What is the Right Balance?
I caught up with an old friend last night at a technology networking event in Chicago, whom I’d describe as a reformed Big 5 consultant turned entrepreneur turned trader. He also happens to write — from time-to-time a financial blog that looks at …
Software cheaper in physical form than in soft copy?
I enjoy photography. I’m not very good at it but I have lots of fun trying new things with my camera all the time (see above my shot of a bee flying between flowers, for example). I use Adobe’s excellent Lightroom 3 Beta to manage my photos and to upload them to Flickr where I [...]
Application flexibility and the tree pose
Cross posted on my Gartner blog. As some of my readers know I’m a keen but slow amateur cyclist. It is a sport that doesn’t really lead to flexibility, the opposite in fact. I need to stretch if I’m going to have any sort of suppleness, so I have made a conscious decision to stretch [...]
Communicating the Value of Social Business
For those who have been working in the social computing sphere the last few years, either externally or internally, it’s become abundantly clear to us that all business is becoming Social Business. For the rest of us who aren’t there yet, major change is still evident: The Web itself has become pervasively social as we’ve [...]
Rearden’s Travelport Partnership: History, Context and the Future of Travel Procurement (Part 2)
Spend Matters would like to welcome Richard Lee, the co-author of this post. Richard is a partner in Spend Matters Group, an M&A advisory firm serving the software, services, outsourcing and travel sectors. He is the former North America corporate …
