A couple of weeks ago, I told you the doctor is not an analyst!. This inspired a counter-post from the one and only Jason Busch, which in turn inspired a plethora of comments, including some that argued against what the comment authors hallucinated I said (which, of course, makes for good entertainment value, so […]
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The elephants in the room and the barney deals aren’t the only problems plaguing our industry. Dangerous myths are constantly infecting the minds of those who will listen to the fear-mongers and the melancholics. Some of these myths are fairly well known, like the myth that once prices are locked in a contract […]
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I recently stumbled upon an article over on the European Leaders Network that was titled Leadership Crucial in Retention of Talent. Needless to say, I was a little shocked. How much more obvious can you get? Come on! I don’t know about you, but I’ve never heard anyone say “My boss […]
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A colleague of mine recently remarked that the whole dashboard concept is stupid beyond belief and just a lot of malarkey and I have to agree. “Dashboards” as they exist today are completely useless, and, in general, the concept is mostly useless. As my enlightened colleague would say, a single metric on a […]
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Recently, I predicted that India would be the eventual winner of the talent war. This is because they have the people, the culture, continually increasing capital inflow, education, the will, and an increasing amount of openness - in contrast to the US, which is more intent on keeping just about everyone out than letting […]
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While browsing the Supply Chain Management Review site recently, I stumbled upon the article What Supply Management Can Learn From MySpace, and I was scared. Although not as bad as Facebook, I still think of it as a time-sucking black hole filled with meaningless banter between teens, twenty-somethings, and the unemployed - with poorly […]
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I recently read an article over at Knowledge @ Wharton on Software’s Future where they said that there is a drive toward hybrid desktop/webtop software, that there are limits to both approaches, and that the future for software may be a blend of the best features of both, that really got my attention.The focus of […]
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This is sort of a continuation of last Monday’s blogologue where I wondered if the sourcing nation has a Prozac problem. While thinking about why the new solutions are being ignored when they should be the target of evaluations (and positive feedback, so that even if they don’t work for you today, they will […]
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IBM is planning to buy Cognos for 5 Billion. That’s right - 5 Billion! Now I know that Cognos stock is trading at around $57 as I compose this post, that Cognos has a Market Cap that is somewhere around 4.76 Billion, and that Cognos’ annual revenue exceeds 1 Billion a year (1.02 […]
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of Sesame Workshop (formerly known as the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) to us old-schoolers), I thought everybody knew the meaning of the word share. However, a recent visit to the good old ISM - or should that be the curmudgeonly old ISM, proved me wrong.I found out that […]
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