Roger Shank, about learning and education

Reading the newspaper, I found an article about Roger Shank, who was visiting Spain to give a lecture, show La Salle´s online MBA program… and I was interested to read a little bit more about it, so I looked for more information about principles, vision… I found the lecture (42 min.) done in Barcelona, Some … Read more

Open Text (ECM)

Enterprise content management through Open Text solutions is very demanding due to the deep collaboration between SAP and Open Text. SAP DMS seems to not support big volumes and Open Text integration is a recognized alternative that the industry has accepted as good solution: reduce implementation risks, reduction of TCO (of your SAP system), aligned … Read more

Working on Financials activities

Some notes I have taken since I have started in my new position about financial activities, Don’t wait for the end of the month, Don’t assume someone else understands the commercial & financial profile, Don’t assume costs come in line with revenue, Do understand the pricing model and terms of engagement, Understand your labour mix … Read more

Transformational Vs Transactional Negotiations

I have read this interesting post in Mosaic Project’s blog, Transactional negotiations: “it’s essentially about trading or exchanging ideas, positions or things of value”. Transformational negotiations: “it’s about creating something new. At the point the parties enter a transformational negotiation they don’t know what the outcome will be. The outcome will be created by jointly … Read more

DuPont, not KKR, to buy Herberts

Some history to remind, it was November 1998 when… link “DuPont is to buy the Herberts coatings operation of Hoechst, replacing USfinancial buyout specialist Kohlberg Kravis Roberts(KKR)…” They continually are exceptional: “DuPont says it has been looking at the Herberts business for several years and feels it is an ‘exceptional’ fit in terms of complementary … Read more

SAP Carbon Impact

My notes on a presentation about this product: SAAS It’s not integrated in the SAP World. You can import/export using csv. Standard implementation project is about 3 months. CO2 price is part of your cost Actions/Menus: Assess, analyse, act, set-up Very straight forward and easy to use Metrics tons calculated in different units (CO2, CH4, … Read more

Measuring speed & altitude

Yesterday, after a week off I went to spend some time running, just 8 kms, short distance and slow speed. I used the sportypal and this was the variance between altitude & speed. just to my remember,