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		<title>Farewell, Dean</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2011/11/28/farewell-dean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Dean Hager is leaving Lawson (see Key Executives Leave Lawson Software After Infor Acquisition). I don’t know Larry Dunivan or Nancy Anderson, but as for Dean, I will certainly miss him. For several years, Dean has been the public face of Lawson, and garnered the trust of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=546&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Bullish on Lawson/Infor</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2011/10/14/why-im-bullish-on-lawsoninfor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six months ago, I told you to stay tuned. I admit it. I had my doubts. Frankly, I was planning a new venture, and was ready to close the door on the LawsonGuru blog, LawsonGuru Letter, and LawsonGuru.com. So what changed my mind? Scrooge No More I know it’s cheesy. It’s my favorite Christmas movie. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=534&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Infor and the Future of Lawson</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2011/06/01/on-infor-and-the-future-of-lawson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clients have been asking: “Infor is acquiring Lawson, where do we go from here?” Remember that Infor has historically been an acquisition-based software provider, and hasn’t offered a complete integration between their acquired product sets, resulting in some overlap between their products. Infor’s prior acquisitions have included some industry heavyweights, such as Baan (ERP/SCM/Logistics) and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=522&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Whom Do You Trust?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2010/10/12/in-whom-do-you-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For larger enterprise applications, you typically sign (and pay for) an annual maintenance agreement covering day-to-day support and/or updates.  Or do you? Perhaps one way to look at software maintenance is to think about how you maintain your vehicle.  Once you drive off the dealer’s lot, it’s your call whether you get your oil changed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=477&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piling It On: This Time It&#8217;s Apple</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2010/07/16/piling-it-on-this-time-its-apple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to leave well enough alone.&#160; I’m not an Apple user, and not at all affected by the recent flap over the iPhone4 antenna problems.&#160; But then I saw this headline: Fix iPhone &#8216;Death Grip&#8217; For Free, Urges Senator Granted, there’s no doubt a problem with Apple’s product.&#160; And Steve Job’s “just don’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=469&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slowing Down to Speed Up</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2010/06/26/slowing-down-to-speed-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read an interesting article recently in Harvard Business Review: http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-acceleration-trap/ In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, the world is spinning faster&#8211;at least it often seems that way.&#160; Our collective method of mitigating this hyper-kinetic frenzy is, of course, to work “better, faster, cheaper”. Which is akin to dousing a grease fire with water, I guess.&#160; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=464&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Icahn Effect</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2010/05/25/the-icahn-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve no doubt heard the news: Carl Icahn has “taken a stake” in Lawson Software (NASDAQ:LWSN). What exactly does this mean? Well, I wish I could tell you, but I sure don’t know. Except it can’t be good. If you’ve never heard of Icahn, just sample this tidbit from the Reuter’s article: “Icahn has made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=454&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Riding the Upgrade Crazy Train</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2010/04/27/riding-the-upgrade-crazy-train/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re probably still dizzy, having just finished your Time Accrual to Absence Management upgrade.&#160; And it doesn’t seem that long ago that we went through that frenetic cycle of LSF9 and 9.0 Apps upgrades.&#160; Well, get ready folks&#8211;there’s more to come, with no foreseeable end in sight.&#160; For example, Lawson’s support for WebSphere 6.0.2 ends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=450&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Checkbox Computing</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2010/01/30/checkbox-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the people I pay attention to in the tech world is John C. Dvorak. While he&#8217;s not always right, he does provoke our thought process when it comes to technology. In a section of a recent posting (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2358568,00.asp), Dvorak mentions the notion of &#34;checkbox computing&#34;.&#160; Dvorak theorizes that we have &#34;dumbed down&#34; our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=432&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Matters Now</title>
		<link>http://blog.lawsonguru.com/2009/12/24/what-matters-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Henley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin is the EF Hutton&#160; for our era.&#160; When he speaks, I certainly listen—and you should as well. One of Seth’s unique gifts is his ability to spark our creativity, and help us—as professionals as well as human beings—to realize and reach our potential.&#160; As we start the coming year, Seth says “now, more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.lawsonguru.com&amp;blog=1858928&amp;post=453&amp;subd=lawsonguru&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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