Comments on: Lars, You Need a Cause

By: Michael Stanley

Michael Stanley — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:25:38 +0000

True, Lawson is “in hospitals”. But Lawson is part of the “business-side” of running the hospital, not the clinical side. Lawson needs to stay focused on their core competency which is the business side. I would not want Lawson to try to compete in the Electronic Medical Records space while they still have many elements of their core suites that need refinement.

By: Milo Tsukroff

Milo Tsukroff — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:54:41 +0000

Brilliant idea! Lawson could expand on the "Save the Cat" idea & start supporting vets and feral cat programs. How about a program to help create digital records for pets? Or a support effort to help feral cat programs, that help maintain feral cat populations which in turn keeps down vermin? Pets are a back-door into people's lives. Long live Lars! [Opinion: WalMart built its reputation on "Buy American" - and now they're known as 'China-Mart'. I think that WalMart is stumbling again when they get into the "affordable health care" area. It's politically explosive. Another sign that their management doesn't get it.]

By: GRG_MTFF

GRG_MTFF — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:08:03 +0000

Tide’s Loads of Hope, not only provides community benefit, and it promotes the brand at the same time. Wal-Mart and AT&T, a bit more self-interest by updating their fleet and soothing employee relations. Not to take away the environment benefits, but, their actions piggy backs on the current “go green” movement while benefits their bottom line.

P&G, ATT, Wal-Mart,and others such as BP, Toyota, has one thing in common. They KNOW what to do to build a future for their companies (and their share holders).

Lawson has an unique opportunity to take the lead in the Digital Health Care market. They are already in the Hospitals! Lars, can be used to promote Lawson similar to Intels commercials of the past, Intel Inside.

How about this line
Lars on the job, ensuring the accuracy of your digital medical records.

As I have stated in the past, Lawson needs to figure out what they want to be when then grow up. 5 years from now, will Lawson still be relevant? or SAP and Oracle would have make Lawson “disappear” like Microsoft did to Borland?