Once You Have Bad Programmers, You’re Doomed!
I love that line from Paul Graham’s post about what went wrong with Yahoo: In technology, once you have bad programmers, you’re doomed. I can’t think of an instance where a company has sunk into technical mediocrity and recovered. Good programmers want to work with other good programmers. So once the quality of programmers at [...]
What can we learn from software development job posts? (Java, SAP, Oracle, SQL, and C#/C++ will get you a job!)
Several months ago, I posted some analysis of IT-related jobs listed on Dice and Monster. At the time, the hot job skills were SQL, Java, and XML. Things haven’t changed much since April – although some specific skills have moved down or up on the list. In summary, here are some conclusions we can draw [...]
Hanging out in the City of Champions
One of the first things that strikes you as you are driving in to Edmonton from the airport, besides how long the drive is, is the entrance sign to the city. It is declared the “City of Champions”, and it kind of takes you off guard. St John’s is the “City of Legends”, Montreal the [...]
A Case for eProcurement in Government Purchasing — Denying Politicians Their Take!
My own state of Illinois has banned the use of reverse auctions in the telecom and construction industries because of the good-old-boy supplier system of graft and corruption. Incidentally, if you want to read a hilarious spoof pi…
The ethics around the HP matter
Image via CrunchBase Over the last few days, as the news around HP has unraveled I have asked myself a few times : if the incident had happened in March, would I have included it as a scenario in Chapter 20 of my book? That chapter is titled Ethics: In an Age of Cyberwar and [...]
Contingent Staffing and the Economy: Do Regulatory Smoke Signals Suggest Trouble? (Part 1)
I’ve often found the contingent staffing market to be a useful indicator for looking at where an economy is in regards to its overall cycle — from growth to recession. The traditional thinking goes that contingent hiring ramps up…
Business Software is in need of some leaps and bounds! by @sig
I already re-tweeted this but am Amplifying because this post by my Enterprise Irregular colleague Sigurd Rinde inspires so many thoughts. The term ‘Business Software’ traditionally implies both complexity and rigidity – it remains far too rare that it focuses on supporting and enabling change. Yes, in the early Michael Hammer-inspired days of ERP the [...]
Business Software is in need of some leaps and bounds!
Most business software is created to help you do what you do today, in the same manner, but hopefully better, faster, and with less effort. Efficiency is the siren call. But alas, the usefulness and ROI of upgrading have a…
Going Global With Supplier Data — A Conversation with D&B (Part 2)
In the first post in this series looking at D&B’s global supplier data strategy, I shared the high-level methods D&B is using to enable its global data expansion and to achieve 350 million commercial entity records by the end of …
Tuesday’s Tip: 10 SaaS/Cloud Strategies For Legacy Apps Environments
Legacy Apps Customers Seek Practical Advice
Organizations determining when and how to make the move to SaaS and Cloud face realistic challenges in gaining buy-in and realizing the apparent and hidden benefits of SaaS/Cloud. In a recent survey of over 300 companies, 73 respondents who were wary of SaaS/Cloud were asked to list the top 3 [...]
