What stops you from being an entrepreneur?
2008-09-15 12:20:00 It’s a simple question, but one, I’m sure, will solicit a plethora of answers. I previously asked what the ingredients to starting a company were, and I’m sure part of the answers are there, e.g.: I don’t have a good idea I don’t have the knowledge I don’t have the team I don’t have the money etc. On the other side, ...
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Social media is dead (not a post about social media)
2008-09-02 09:08:00 I’ve been posting way too much about (social) media on Tech IT Easy and I’m sick & tired of it? of both social media *and* writing about it. There’s nothing left to say; everything that has been done, has been done. There will be some “process innovation,” sure, the internet is famous for it. But ...
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Refleditorial: Less questions, more answers, and reasons to (not) blog
2008-08-27 21:34:00 Refleditorial: a combination of reflection & editorial. It’s 20:47 over here, it’s been a long day, and I’m in an introspective mood. A few months ago, after I concluded my last blog and “renewed” my commitment to this one, it actually happened in parallel with the conclusion of another long-lasting activity: my thesis. Academic work is, ...
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What are the ingredients to launching a company?
2008-06-07 12:47:00 Hello again. This here is a typical “fill in the blanks” write-up. I like thinking about starting companies, haven’t as yet engaged on starting one, though I feel relatively confident that I understand what it takes, but also that there are several ingredients that I still lack. Following is a diagram of all the components ...
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Flextronics and Business Process Management Software Seminar
2008-05-30 06:22:00 Business Infrastructure Software in Action How SOA Helps Accelerate Success with Business Process Management Date: June 3, 2008 Time: 11:00 AM EDT - 8:00 AM PDT Note: Audience members may arrive 15 minutes in advance of this time Business Process Management (BPM) is being used today by many organizations to gain new levels of visibility and control into ...
A lesson on Customer Service and Corporate Culture by Tony Hsieh, CEO of Za
2008-04-23 08:15:00 I just discovered the eBay Speaker Series with allows eBay employees to meet with experts and leaders of the industry. I checked that I am allowed to blog about all these great conferences and since the answer is yes, I am really glad to be able to share them with you. Today, this conference was ...
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Top-bloggers? competitive advantage
2008-04-10 11:21:00 No, this is not a list of absolutes or criteria, which you must meet to be a top-blogger. I’m not arrogant enough for that. This is a set of qualities that I consider certain top-bloggers to possess, their competitive advantage if you will, which I define as: “a differentiated and hard-to-replicate ability that generates rewards above ...
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Getting hired by Amazon, Apple, ?, Yahoo, ZDnet: tips and future hacks.
2008-02-06 02:05:00 Trying to digest a cheesy crust pizza this noon, I was wondering if instead of a pizza I was carrying a baby. The good thing was that there would be two of us going back to work, even if the one was rather unqualified to give me hand. What a delight for my pizzababy to ...
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Developer to all-technical-staff ratio: 1:4 as a rule of thumb?
2008-01-30 01:43:00 Here’s a quick question to all people used to either interact with or being part of software development teams. Consider a software vendor, a good one, and its technical headcount. It is no secret that R&D teams aren’t made of software developers only. In order to be deployed successfully, architectures and code need to be tested by a QA department ...
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Welcoming Ms. Georgia Psyllidou on Tech IT Easy !!!
2008-01-24 15:03:00 Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I can only guess what the man on the right picture is doing here. I guess he makes our new blogger, Ms. Georgia Psyllidou (left), look good. I’d like to spend some time, introducing her to you. Georgia is actually an acquaintance of Jeremy’s, though she caught my attention by some of the ...
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Revisiting ITIL service catalogue
2008-01-23 11:27:00 I’ve seen a steady stream of visitors finding their way to my last year’s post about ITIL service catalogues. At one point I had to finally close the comments, because some people felt it was a correct place to advertise their solutions. Even after leaving the company I did the project for, I’ve been approached ...
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Sun-MySQL / Oracle-BEA: scramble in low layer software
2008-01-20 15:34:00 Last week, the unsexy world of lower software layers witnessed some significant consolidation moves: Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL AB, and Oracle Corporation acquired BEA Systems. I know you guys browsing the blogosphere want to hear about Paris Hilton (this one keyword to boost visits from search engines), and most of all Twitter, Google, Apple, MS-bashing (which I won’t ...
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5 free pieces of advice to Amazon, from a very unhappy customer
2008-01-14 19:15:00 I consider myself a “power buyer” on Amazon - having ordered and read for the last decade or so between 20 and 30 books every year, for sums of money far from negligible, at least to me. This being said, I’ve never been more unhappy about my experience as a customer. Here are 5 free pieces ...
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Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM
2008-01-11 22:05:00 This book teaches Business Analysts to model business processes in JBoss jBPM and generate workflow application code from their models without Java coding expertise. It is a full toolkit for anyone wanting to implement Business Process Management correctly, covering tasks common to all BPM implementations, although it is focused on popular, free, open-source jBPM, with ...
Is software high-tech? Take II
2007-12-15 16:36:00 No it is not. And when you think about it’s kind of a good thing. Because it means that the path from technology to revenue is that much shorter. Of course, the other side of that coin is that there are many people competing for that same revenue. After writing my last post on this, ...
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Issues to consider when managing innovation: example of Intel?s lablets
2007-12-13 04:37:00 I am still a bit obsessed on how companies manage their innovation processes and how they make it fit with their culture. In this context, I recently read an HBS case about Intel research. The ?Intel lablets? particularly attracted my attention and raised general questions about the management of innovation. In 2004, Intel realized that faster ...
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Amazon?s Jeff Bezos on strategy & innovation (not Kindle-related!)
2007-11-20 13:53:00 I’m writing this post for two reasons. One is that I am incredibly interested in the subject of leadership and try to learn about it in whatever way I can. A second reason is that, even though my main focus on my blog is food and retail, what Matthias calls “old economy” (thanks Matthias!), I ...
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Business Process Management Survey
2007-11-19 12:55:00 If you’re involved in Business Process Management (BPM), you may be interested in the Zoomerang survey available here. All participants receive a complimentary $5 gift card from Starbucks and five participants will win an iPod touch. This post isn’t sponsored - but I know many of us are involved in BPM so it is a decent opportunity. If you’re not sure what BPM is, here’s a little bit from wikipedia: Business Process Management (BPM) is a field of knowledge at the intersection between management and information technology, encompassing methods, techniques and tools to design, enact, control, and analyze operational business processes involving humans, organizations, applications, documents and other sources of information.
Business Process Management ??????
2007-11-15 15:35:00 John Jeston, " Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations" ??????:???????????Butterworth-H-einemann; 3rd edition (April 24, 2006) | ISBN:0750669217 | 464 pages | PDF | 4,6 Mb Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations provides organizational leadership with an understanding of Business Process Management and its benefits to an organization. This book also gives Business Process Management practitioners a framework and a set of tools and techniques that provide a practical guide to successfully implementing Business Process Management projects and provides a holistic approach and the necessary details to deliver a Business Process Management project.Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations delivers:* a proven in-depth step-by-step framework for the Business Process Management practitioner.* insights into how to embed Business Process Management within an organization to ens...
Business Process Management Solutions
2007-11-07 13:24:00 In designing an environment for the effective performance of individuals working together in groups, a manager’s most essential task is to see that everyone understands the groups purposes and objectives and its method of attaining them. If group effor...
Business Process Management Training
2007-11-07 13:24:00 n business process management training, qualified executives look to the future and prepare. One important way to do this is to develop and train managers so that they are able to cope with new demands, new problems and new challenges. Indeed, executiv...
Lessons from eBay?s ?The Perfect Store?
2007-10-28 12:04:00 For those that don’t know, “The Perfect Store” tells the story of eBay, how it was started, who was involved, its community, its growth, and the IPO, basically everything up to around 2001. The book was very well-written, I thought. So much so, that I felt more affinity with the company before it went public ...
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The Consumer Decision Process
2007-10-22 12:31:00 IBM’s nice white paper, which I briefly touched on before on my food and retail-blog, describes a model for mapping how customers make decisions in a given setting. It looks at three types of retail-outlets: Grocery, consumer-electronics, and apparel (clothing), and explains how each type of store has different types of customers, with different motives ...
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Enterprise software sales materials briefing
2007-10-14 19:25:00 This morning, I had breakfast with 2 French friends entrepreneurs who are starting up an enterprise software company in Brussels after two years working, respectively, as a financial auditor and a consultant in Luxembourg and London. Both are 25. Starting an enterprise software startup when you’re so young is extremely difficult. Not that the older, ...
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Introducing Raj Sheelvant, a new blogger on Tech IT Easy!
2007-10-03 21:22:00 Please join me in welcoming Raj, who has since today become a blogger on Tech IT Easy. So who is Raj Sheelvant? Currently working as a Project Manager at Intel, he has 15 years of IT experience working in various roles. He holds an MBA-degree from W.P. Carey Business School of Arizona State University at ...
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Xobni: I want it
2007-10-03 15:15:00 Xobni is an amazing OBA S+S example. But what is OBA (see links here, and here, and here, and here)? What is S+S (see my quick explanation to Vincent here)? Thanks to Julien for spotting Xobni.
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The life of a software developer, episode 2/4: the improvement of software
2007-09-24 23:32:00 Recently I read an article saying that only 16% of data-processing projects are a success. On the other hand, 59% of data-processing projects don?t respect initial budget, 35% don?t respect deadlines and 54% of all applications don?t match clients? needs. This being known, we can understand the success of CMMi (Capability Maturity Model® Integration) model. ...
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The IT Flower and Enterprise 2.0
2007-09-15 20:38:00 On Martin Koser’s blog I found the IT Flower, a presentation about enterprise software. Rod Boothby, the creator of this presentation (framework), did a very good job with it as the image of a flower is easy to memorize and helpful to explain (or discuss) different types of enterprise software and recent developments in the ...
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Palm cancels the Foleo! - a case of bad portfolio-management?
2007-09-06 07:56:00 Yesterday, as I was reading an article on portfolio management in my issue of HBR, important news (to some) was announced: Palm has cancelled the release of the Foleo?it’s ultra-mobile laptop solution. I can’t speak for all, but as a fairly mobile person and a writer, I find the idea of ultra-portable devices with good ...
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12 non technical tips to design kick ass software architectures
2007-08-21 23:55:00 I actually learnt what software architecture means something like 9 months - when Jean-Sébastien and Pierre discussed the architecture of CartoReso and I was listening, eyes wide opened not understanding the slightest bit of what was going on. However, it didn’t take long for me to realize how crucial designing a smart and robust architecture ...
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Coolblue.nl - business structure, long tails, and growing in Europe
2007-08-08 10:50:00 My first, no second, Dutch article since I started here. Shocking! I’m fascinated by company structures, as you may well know, particularly those that promote a higher customer satisfaction (making a difference) and growth (on a higher scale). As I’m no internet-guy (I don’t program, I use), and I really am more focussed on ?hard? and ...
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Outsource Business Process Management Consulting Services India
2007-08-03 00:00:00 Binary Semantics offers outsource business program management consulting services including Strategic planning, Organizational structure design and staffing.
People First! - learning from Ratatouille and Pixar
2007-08-02 12:03:00 This is an ironic topic to write about for me, as at uni, I’ve avoided Human Resource courses like the plague. As a matter of fact, I never got along with a single HR-manager that interviewed me. They seem focussed on placing me in a box, while I am focussed on not fitting in one. ...
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The power of statistics and why the ?why? doesn?t matter
2007-07-30 12:47:00 What do books like ‘Freakonomics‘ and ‘The Long Tail‘ (which I haven’t read yet) teach us? That statistics is an immensely powerful tool for getting at the underlying behaviour of people. It’s rationalised observation really, for books like ‘Blink‘ teach us the same thing? minus some of the numbers perhaps. In ?real life,? so far I ...
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Open source can be very, very expensive
2007-07-17 00:22:00 I had dinner tonight with a friend and technical consultant jumping from a 3-month mission for an industrial companies to another 3-month mission for another industrial company. So far, so good. The issue is that one of these clients hates to pay for software and has the weird habit of wanting to develop in-house all its ...
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America - the land of process-innovation?
2007-07-13 15:32:00 I’m currently reading ‘Grinding it out‘, the tale of McDonalds through the eyes of Ray Krog. A review will follow eventually, but here are some initial conclusions. The first few pages were about Krok’s rise to power, what made the man the man he is. A first note is that he was really a blue-collar worker, ...
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Overwhelmed with emails: SOS
2007-07-10 00:31:00 I can’t keep up. 3402 unread emails on my personal mailbox (+ something like 50 on my professional mailbox) - I’m overwhelmed. Okay, emails have changed the way people communicate. But clearly, this initially amazing and handy tool going to the mass market has created a monster. Tonight when I switched on my computer, I had ...
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5 things you should know about SaaS
2007-07-04 00:52:00 Felt like sharing some thoughts on SaaS with you today - those who already know something about SaaS won’t learn anything from me here - and I’m willing to learn if you’re in the mood to comment. But those who are discovering what Software as a Service is might find something to take away. 1) SaaS ...
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Software business models
2007-07-03 01:33:00 About one month ago, I felt I had to try this new Q&A feature on LinkedIn and asked to the community a question that resulted close to this: “Hey guys, I’m having a hard time writing a blogpost that lists all possible software business models. I need you help!“. I actually collected pretty valuable answers from ...
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Software marketing management dept. - timing matters!
2007-06-26 01:51:00 Most early stage software publishers or ISVs (independent software vendors) rightly focus on production (software development) and sales in the beginning of their growth curve, and hence seldom have a marketing department from scratch. I believe this is the right approach: when facing a certain resource scarcity, focusing on generating revenues rather than deploying cost centers ...
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Welcoming Matthias Schwenk on Tech IT Easy
2007-06-25 02:46:00 I’m very glad to welcome Matthias Schwenk on Tech IT Easy. For the record, Matthias already is a prominent blogger in Germany. His personal blog (in German) appears #14 in the consulting section of the German business blogs ranking. Matthias, who I met through the blogosphere, defines himself as a Web 2.0 evangelist. His vision is ...
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Digital Marketing Key Performance Indicators
2007-06-19 02:04:00 I tried to come up with a list of all existing Digital Marketing KPI. If you have an eCommerce or content website, try to pick 5 or 6 of them to build yourself a dashboard that will help you manage your performance better. turnover Click-through rate CPM / CPT eCPM CPI CPA CPC eCPC referrers key words profiles average cart cost per single visit direct convert rate indirect convert rate ...
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Moneyball: win the national league with the lowest budget
2007-06-18 00:50:00 Today I finished reading “Moneyball: the Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis. I wouldn’t say it’s my favourite management book ever, far from it - however, it was definitely worth going through. Moneyball is the story of Baseball Team Auckland Athletics, which, under the command of its general manager Billy Beane, won the ...
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Moneyball: win the national league with the lowest budget
2007-06-18 00:50:00 Today I finished reading “Moneyball: the Art of Winning an Unfair Game” by Michael Lewis. I wouldn’t say it’s my favourite management book ever, far from it - however, it was definitely worth going through. Moneyball is the story of Baseball Team Auckland Athletics, which, under the command of its general manager Billy Beane, won the ...
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How to manage innovation ?
2007-06-14 01:39:00 Message from Jeremy: To all Tech IT Easy readers, who could obviously not necessarily remember the initial announcement, I have invited Fidji Simo to write about web strategies and provide you with insights on how to manage and develop small & medium businesses. Fidji?s mission statement is that there?s no mission statement: what matters ...
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How to manage innovation ?
2007-06-14 01:39:00 Message from Jeremy: To all Tech IT Easy readers, who could obviously not necessarily remember the initial announcement, I have invited Fidji Simo to write about web strategies and provide you with insights on how to manage and develop small & medium businesses. Fidji?s mission statement is that there?s no mission statement: what matters most ...
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Microsoft?s SME Day in Brussels : Some Takeaways
2007-06-08 13:53:00 ? Message from Jeremy : For those new to Tech IT Easy, who could obviously not remember the initial announcement, I have invited my friend and fellow Alexandre Lucas to help me try to provide you, dear readership, with everyday better analyses on software, telecom & Internet trends. Alex?s mission statement is basically to go ...
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Microsoft?s SME Day in Brussels : Some Takeaways
2007-06-08 13:53:00 ? Message from Jeremy : For those new to Tech IT Easy, who could obviously not remember the initial announcement, I have invited my friend and fellow Alexandre Lucas to help me try to provide you, dear readership, with everyday better analyses on software, telecom & Internet trends. Alex?s mission statement is basically to go ...
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SQL Server outperforms Oracle by a factor of 2
2007-06-07 02:03:00 SQL Server being one of the 3 words I pronounce most everyday (alongside with IDEAS & Empower), a piece of news kept me smiling for a few days. An independent benchmarking organization, TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council), just released (-H, May 21st 2007) results proving that Microsoft’s database SQL Server 2005 outperforms its archrival Oracle Database ...
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SQL Server outperforms Oracle by a factor of 2
2007-06-07 02:03:00 SQL Server being one of the 3 words I pronounce most everyday (alongside with IDEAS & Empower), a piece of news kept me smiling for a few days. An independent benchmarking organization, TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council), just released (-H, May 21st 2007) results proving that Microsoft’s database SQL Server 2005 outperforms its archrival Oracle Database ...
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