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I’m working on a logistics transformation, and it is letting me know the situation of the market with respect the logistics business, where all come from and where all go… Nowadays so many companies outsource part of the processes, typically IT and keep the management activities inside the company. The main question done before to … Read more
In the organizations, the succession plans are not always planned and there are so many funny situations when a person needs to replace someone. The option basically can be that you assign a top performer person who will lead and execute the work in an extraordinary way; or your option is to assign someone who … Read more
Business Applications are the primary mechanism for delivering IT value. Applications are expensive to purchase, but even more expensive to maintain. You have strategic plans, balance sheets, portfolio management cycles…and budget reviews. Application TCO is one of the recognized mechanisms to manage the IT budget, and it’s also one of the major headaches for CIOs … Read more
Keep the requirements under control is sometimes very difficult. Continuous changes on specifications, continues changes of direction, quick estimations demanded under weak specifications, etc… To make the customer to recognize that all changes they are putting in place is even hardest. They just do not care, you are there to handle and be paid by … Read more
Some years ago SAP announced the creation of SAP Business By Design (BBD). This solution was created to gather the ERP needs for mid-size companies and be one piece of puzzle on the journey to move the SAP services to cloud based solutions (other are: successfactors for HR, Ariba for procurement). The relevancy of BBD … Read more
I have discovered that finally there is an organization that is recognized as standard for protocol: AMQP. They offer examples of products that implement their protocol. A couple of interesting solutions aligned with this protocol are: Rabit MQ: they have documentation and useful examples. http://www.rabbitmq.com/getstarted.html QPID, Apache: http://qpid.apache.org/ Red Hat Enterprise MRG: http://www.redhat.com/products/mrg/ I … Read more
I like this book because it explains in a simple and clear way basic economic concepts. It will not go further, it’s a cartoon with nice examples you will find in your daily life. Nice to read, I will go for the volume II.
In every type of facet of life there are occasions where you suddenly are stopped and you cannot continue. You reach a stressful situation where you do not know what is happening and what is the reason you are paralyzed by something. The first reaction is to look something outside as root cause of the … Read more
Divestiture, Merge, acquisition… words that are added to some of the activities that a customer comment to you. You receive it as a business as usual, but you have to know that you probably are one of the guys that only have listened about it. When this happens, the first thing that has to go … Read more
COBIT is seen by some IT people as a new trend and something we all should have in our organizations, bla, bla, bla… But, who promotes COBIT or other governance models? The answer is easy: The business. They are fed up of spending money on IT transformations, changes of provider, investments on pilots, and any … Read more