Cloud and the reshaping of business
Even though much of the discussion of cloud computing is focused on technology, I believe that the most important innovations on cloud platforms are going to happen at a business level. So here at the SIIA All About the Cloud conference today in San Francisco, one of the sessions I’d been especially looking forward to [...]
Analyzing The Real News Stories of Sapphire Now 2011, Part One: The Impact Of HANA
It’s becoming a tradition: a reporter pulls me aside at the end of an SAP show and asks, “There wasn’t really much news, was there?” No, and yes. BI 4.0 excepted, the most compelling SAP software releases of 2011 are looking like fall/winter timeframes. But there was plenty of “real news” to be found at [...]
Stifling growth? Challenge some assumptions!
McKinsey Quarterly has an article in their May edition – “Preparing your organization for growth” – that yet again reminds me about the total inability to ask the right question. Or question any assumptions at all. If you live in a small apartment with one bedroom and your wife becomes pregnant with triplets, what will [...]
Global Trade Increases Despite Inflation in China/Elsewhere — Yet We Predict Reversal Later in 2011
Earlier this month, Panjiva reported that its global trade tracking index was up, showing solid seasonal growth. According to their analysis, April saw a “healthy bump” in global trade activity with the “number of waterborne shipm…
