Enterprise 2.0: New Tech, Same Old Marketing
Walking the floor at the Enterprise 2.0 conference today I was struck how after all these years the needle hasn’t moved much in terms of how a technology company markets themselves. There’s the obligatory vendor pavilion with the obligatory hard…
HP’s Supply Chain — By the Numbers (Part 1)
Fellow Enterprise Irregular Larry Dignan recently took copious notes during a presentation by HP’s Tony Prophet at an investor event. Prophet is HP’s SVP of global supply chain operations. Larry’s post over on ZDNet covers Prophet’s presentation at…
A US onshore view of Schumer’s offshore-tax proposals: “A no-win approach for tapping the strength of the US-based outsourcing industry”
The majority of the viewpoints convey concern and confusion regarding the implications of Senator Schumer’s proposals. However, one opinion does standout, coming from a gentleman called Skip Womack, who heads up the US onshore IT outsourcing provider, …
In Search Of HRM/HRMDS/HR Tech “Best” Practices: Istanbul To Venice — Field Report Part II
Regent Seven Seas Mariner Underway The first part of this post was a personal report on our recent travels. In this second part, I want to share what I learned about our industry’s “best” practices along the way. More specifically, I want to describe some of the HRM practices that Regent Seven Seas uses to [...]
Microsoft’s Parallel DW – Still Waiting
Microsoft’s SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) has been eagerly awaited for a long time. It still is. Though much of the news at the BI Conference running in parallel with TechEd in New Orleans (discussed here) was generally quite good, the PDW story was much less so. It’s late, and it’s not all there. [...]
Following on More Than Friday: The Ones Who Teach Me
<p>Note: I’m actually on a vacation, just finishing an incredible cruise through the Mediterranean and now on Day 2 of a 3 day stay in Barcelona. All in all a dream vacation to tell you the truth. Best ever. But I HAD to finish this po…
