2013 ERP research: Compelling advice for the CFO
New research on the success of ERP implementations reveals mixed results. Although respondents are satisfied with their choice of software, the survey shows most ERP projects run over budget and buyers are do not fully receive expected benefits from their projects. Nonetheless, few respondents characterized their ERP project as a failure. For chief financial officers, [...]
Charging for Your Product is About 2000 Times More Effective than Relying on Ad Revenue
I was reading Gabriel Weinberg’s piece on the depressing math behind consumer-facing apps. He’s talking about conversion rates for folks to actually use such apps and I got to thinking about the additional conversion rate of an ad-based revenue model since he refers to the Facebooks and Twitters of the world. Just for grins, I [...]
The Best Cloud Computing Companies and CEOs to Work For in 2013
Hiring great people and creating a culture of achievement that is fun, focused and able to get challenging tasks done is not an easy task. Keeping that culture strong and focused on the customer takes a unique leader that consistently earns trust and respect. Those are the qualities I think of whenever I’m asked to [...]
Salesforce Kickoff
Salesforce is kicking off its new year with an event on Tuesday at New York’s fabled Waldorf Astoria in which CEO Marc Benioff will introduce a refinement of an idea he’s been talking about for many months. For a long time the company has been using messaging about the idea of transforming the enterprise from [...]
Connecting vs Reaching
This snippet by way of Stowe Boyd really struck a chord with me with respect to the difference between social networks and enterprise social networks. Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook got called out by Maureen Dowd in this New York TImes article: “Sandberg may mean well, and she may be setting up a run for national [...]
