Dance of the ERPlephants
Behold: the beleagured ERPlephant, caught in a perpetual struggle to keep its gnarly data models away from it’s human interactors’ field of awareness (and mostly failing, until humans get round to...
View ArticleBI vs ERP: how to make good use of business processes during enterprise...
The most fascinating thing I’ve learned recently is how dimensional modelling has business processes at it’s core. <shamefaced>I did not know that</shamefaced>; had not thought about it...
View ArticleOn the curious and utterly curable absence of ability
There’s been a lot of waffle recently on a (supposedly) brand new type of skills shortage, in which the pool of un-employables have skillset {a, b, c} while the actual roles they persistently aren’t...
View ArticleStreet Dance Academy died while I wasn’t looking :-(
The weird thing is, I feel like it was ALL. MY. FAULT. I felt that way when Ontario School of Art had to shutter it’s doors about a year or so ago (thankfully, eventually, they were able to reopen at...
View ArticleDropifi… is Ghanaian!
Neat story: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/10/tech/web/ghana-dropifi-silicon-valley/
View ArticleBA Bibles Compared: IIBA vs BCS
I’ve decided to give you a completely un-asked-for review of the two leading Business Analysis bibles. Actually, this is a review of the 2nd edition BCS versus the BABOK… don’t be misled by the...
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Jobs for futurists
Updated 2012-02-17 :: version 05 – oh yeah. Ever dreamed of a job that simply doesn’t exist yet? Or a career in an unheard-of field or discipline? You might just be a generalist/futurist-in-waiting,...
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Enoughness
[updated 2009-03-30].We don’t seem to have an intuitive grasp of the concept of how much ‘enough’ is. I think that when we succeeded in inventing the ‘corporation’, we enshrined this multiplicative...
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Venture Capital : the love that crushes with its embrace
First off, I know diddley about venture capital and the entire VC industry. However, I have been in a few organisations now which have sought VC-assisted growth, and the ensuing fallout each time has...
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Complex accounting is routing strategy. It’s here to stay.
[updated : 2009-12-19] The only thing that’s interesting about the copenhagen climate summit is the strategies that nations employ to wriggle out of real and tangible cuts in emissions. The...
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