You can be More Productive with Marketing Automation Software
If you could change one thing in your sales office, I know what it would be. You'd find a way to spend less time generating leads and more time following up on those leads to generate sales, ri…
Is “Not my job” just another excuse?
It's funny how often you find yourself reading two otherwise unrelated articles exhibiting diametrically opposing points of view in short succession on the Internet these days. This morning, for m…
Practicing crisis
Perhaps you need a crisis every once in a while to practice your crisis management skills.
Toyota has been admired and revered in the manufacturing and production world for so long, and their veh…
Relax, it’s not your fault
It's your CEO's fault! But then, you already knew that, right?
Of course, in some senses, everything that happens in the business is the CEO's fault, or fortune, as the case may be. The…
Why Devil Mountain Software will fail… big time
I thought there was something a little hysterical about Randall Kennedy's insistence in an InfoWorld column published last November that Chrome and it's ilk were doomed to fail when I cited it…
Massive infrastructure for Vancouver 2010
I'm up at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia this week, and the degree of organization on such a vast scale has been most impressive. Thousands of athletes, volunteers, and hundred…
Subscription.com for All Your Business Subscription Needs
If you are a CIO you probably have several different subscriptions to manage throughout your business. There are subscriptions for VoIP service there are subscriptions for telecommuting business meeti…
The iPhone and the rise of situational applications
The concept of situational applications, software written to be "good enough" for a very focused, limited set of requirements, has been around for a long time now. Of late, with the rise of …
Google tweaking enterprise features
As Microsoft and other traditional enterprise IT vendors cede through inaction or befuddlement territory in the mobile and online services, it seems left to a few upstarts and the titans at Google and…
IT robot staff imminent
And you thought I was just kidding about the IT staff robots with the big red reboot buttons on their foreheads when I mentioned my dream earlier this week.
An intrepid reader pointed me toward the…