Archives / September 2008

 
Learn India in 12 Easy Steps
Organizations who want to successfully take advantage of the opportunities of doing business with India must first understand...
Review: Inbox, Xobni spelled correctly
 Email is no more just another way of communication in this Web2.0 generation. Our dependence on robust email has increased significantly, and every time we open our Outlook, it can sometimes remind us how careless we have been in organizing our emails and contacts. When we deal with 100s of email every day, it often becomes an unrewarding experience...



Barack Obama Makes His (Pointless?) Play on Outsourcing
 Barack Obama has publicly stated (I assume in his Government, should he get in) that organizations who outsource overseas won't get tax breaks. What tax breaks though? In the US, organizations don't get tax breaks specifically for this. And what has an organization's choice of outsourcing got to do with politics, I would add - surely the leaders of these...
5 Major Gaffes I’ve Made as an IT Manager
I can look back on my career now and laugh at some of the things I did, and in some cases I cringe like crazy to the point...



A Blast Of Nostalgia!
 I was surfing around YouTube and found this TV commercial for the Intellivision from Mattel Electronics - my first ever electronic gadget. I had one of these back in 1984 before I had my first home computer. I loved it at first, but became bored of it because I couldn't program it and make my own games! Did you any of you folks have one? What...
Unusual Cures For Boring Meetings
 It is not even 10:00 am on Monday morning and it is already time to rush into one of those dreadful weekly status report meetings, a ritual that started sometime in your previous birth. You know for sure that no one will have anything substantial to report, or a few trumpeters will hype up their trivial tasks, or someone will hijack the whole meeting,...



How To Build Your Vision for BPM
 BPM, or Business Process Management, is a growing sector of Business Technology. Forrester Research forecast growth over the next five years to be between 17.5% and 35.5% (why do they have to use fractions in these figures? We get the picture - Lots!) So if it ain't happened to you yet, then there is a likelihood it will. The thing with BPM though,...
Review: Google’s Chrome To Disrupt the Browser Market, But Will It Disrupt the Enterprise Desktop?
 In Google's usual style, there was a bit of a fanfare yesterday (September 2 2008) for the launch of their new 'killer' browser, Chrome. Google's brand and penetration will make it an overnight success and I am confident that it will displace Internet Explorer (further) and Firefox (less so) in the consumer PC market. But will it do so in the Enterprise? I...



Beware of Your Super Performers
 If you have the habit of reading business magazines, management books or articles you will definitely encounter countless references about various super performers (or hyper efficient employees) that exist in various organizations, departments, teams, etc. Of course, the definition of a super performer is a subjective term that can vary from manager...
August Commentator of the Month!
 Congratulations to Chris Mahan (http://chrismahan.blogspot.com/ ) for winning ten bucks - he is August commentator of the month! Don't spend the money on candy - it will rot your teeth!



 

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