A Poorly Managed Company’s Tour Guide: Performance Mangement and the ‘Mesdup’ Corporation
Publicly traded companies issue annual reports that increasingly look like magazines. Almost all organizations publish a brochure with glossy…
Miles Davis’ Music Lesson for Performance Management
Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington were jazz greats. And then came MilesDavis. What can we learn from the…
Design Patterns
In building trading systems, one notices patterns in how they are designing things. After you've built a couple, you start…
Winning the first game in a baseball series: a harbinger, or not?
For those not familiar with the major-league baseball in the US (and despite living here for more than 10 years,…
The Big Bad Boucher Bill, and Its Possible Exceptions
A discussion draft of a controversial bill to regulate behavioral targeting has been released by US Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA).…
SAS and Socialytics
SAS, a leader in business analytics, recently launched a new offering targeted around gaining business insight into the social web.…
5 Lessons Social CRM can Learn from CRM
I have been implementing CRM Solutions for a decade, having successfully managed many large CRM projects for Fortune 500 companies in the…
Innovation and Analytics
Innovation and analytics often are seen as opposing concepts. Many argue that innovation –which is often glorified as a moment…
SAP acquires Sybase
+ This week SAP announced intentions to acquire Sybase in a deal that would be worth around $5.8B. Sybase, once…
The ticket puncher on the train
Waiting for a train this morning, I read a story from yesterday's Times on my iPod. It was about a…
