Is Oracle An Apps Company that Sells Hardware, or a Hardware Company that Dabbles in Apps?
It’s open season in the punditocracy on Oracle, as the move to put Mark Hurd in Oracle’s corner and jettison Charles Phillips makes a helluva welcome-back-to-work present for anyone who actually took Labor Day off from their daily labors. What’s obvious from where I sit is that Oracle is now more firmly a hardware company [...]
Where an Apple Employee Hid Fraud/IP Spoils: Stuffing Cash Into Shoeboxes From Supplier Payouts
Apple, perennially coming in at the top of AMR’s supply chain rankings, must have been alarmed to learn that one of its well-paid employees — global supply managers at high-tech firms should all be into the six figures, especiall…
Contrarian VC’s: Good Idea!
VC’s have a real reputation for having a herd mentality. If you are a VC, don’t get offended, you know it’s true. Heck, I’ve had a number of you joke with me about it. For this reason, I read with interest Fred Wilson’s musings about contrarian investing. Fred talks about how momentum investing can be successful, [...]
UK demands ‘mandatory’ project reviews on government IT projects
The National Audit Office, an official UK watchdog agency, announced recommendations calling for “a central, mandatory system” of IT project reviews.
Dancing With Elephants: Webinar on Agile and Social Processes
Keith Swenson and I will be presenting a webinar this Thursday at 2pm ET, sponsored by Fujitsu, on the topic of agile and social BPM. You can register here.
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Sunoco Signs with IBM for BPO: Proof That Procurement Outsourcing Can Serve All Maturity Levels
On Monday, IBM announced it had signed Sunoco to a multi-year procurement BPO deal (for Spend Matters comparative analysis of IBM’s procurement outsourcing capabilities, please click here and here to read more). What is most inter…
Who killed big corp innovation?
The Product Manager. Look no further, that’s the one, the main Big Corp innovation killer. OK, do take that with a pinch of salt. It’s not personal either, if you’re a PM, it’s not your fault. But please read on,…
Rising Stars: Maria Ogneva on Scaling Social Media
A few months ago, I highlighted a few rising young stars in the SCRM world – a few 30s and younger who are not just making names for themselves – that’s not that hard to do – but are providing meat on the bone – substance that businesses can actually learn from in a discipline [...]
IT, Cloud & Competitive Advantage
I was in a conversation with a CIO the other day about how fast the tech industry is changing and how continual adaption of the latest has becomes a norm for his business – he also said that some time sponsors within the organization keep asking what i…
