TDWI Event Focuses on Agile BI. What’s That?
I’m at the Data Warehouse Institute’s San Diego conference this week, and experimenting with an incremental approach to blogging for this event; I’ll try to get on a few times in the next 2 days (unfortunately that’s all the time I’ll have here) and communicate some quick thoughts, as opposed to my more typical style, [...]
Tied Up? Dragon Naturally Speaking Comes to Rescue… or Not?
Nuance released version 11 of Dragon Naturally Speaking, their voice recognition / dictation software. Below is a rather unusual review by David Pogue of The New York Times: On a more serious note – I’m a really poor typist, my blogging is hampered by the slowness of typing, and there are all those situations when [...]
Sigh. CRM is NOT Dead, OK?
I like RightNow. I really do. I think that their CX applications and platform are genuinely very good. I think they are an innovative company that has chutzpah. Their release of the Cloud Services Agreement – a contract that can be a model for the enterprise world – is proof of that. I think that [...]
Digging Behind the Recovery for a Solution: When the Numbers Tell a Risky Inventory Story
Kudos to Procurement Leaders for a great article about how current inventory numbers are telling a risky story for the potential of inventory shortages, stock-outs and overall supply risk than appears on the surface. The author no…
Contingent Staffing and the Economy: Do Regulatory Smoke Signals Suggest Trouble? (Part 2)
In the first post in this series, I cited a Workforce Management article that highlights the recent trend toward contingent hiring as a replacement for — rather than a supplement to — bringing on regular W-2 full-time employees….
The Superphone is the New Computer
The HTC Incredible was the best Android superphone – for about a month, until the HTC EVO took over…only to be dethroned by the Motorola Droid X. But that’s history now, we’re in the middle of the Samsung Galaxy S invasion now: Vibrant, Captivate, Fascinate … just about all major carriers offer their own flavor. [...]
