I’ve recently noticed some interesting ads, focused on brand loyalty and awareness:
Posted in Lawson, Lawson CUE, Thoughts
Lawson has announced an interesting service offering, VUE ’09, targeted at those of you who weren’t able to make it to their recent CUE ‘09 conference in San Diego.
Posted in Lawson, Lawson CUE, Thoughts
Phil Simon forwarded this blog post about how software companies are “skimping” on R&D, and are using maintenance revenue streams to finance their on-going operations. You—as the software customer—send the vendor some money each year—some to be used for providing you support, but some of it is expected to be used to further enhance the product.
It seems the whole universe is “tweeting” about something, and we, as a culture, just can’t get enough of it:
Once a year, it happens. My birthday, that is. I won’t yammer on and on about birthdays, and how when you get to be “over-the-hill”, you don’t want to think about birthdays. No, I’m perfectly fine with my age (hey, I earned my grey hair!).
Your Paper, Sir?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the newspaper industry is in a serious decline. Maybe that’s not strong enough.
Newspapers, as we’ve known them, are on their deathbed. And it’s a sad reversal of fortune. Gone are the glory days of The Washington Post’s Woodward and Bernstein.
Yes, I know. I’m taking a cheap shot.
But this is just ridiculous, and this is not an isolated incident:
And Lawson’s new CIO has been on the job for almost a year.
As you know, LawsonGuru.com and Decision Analytics have absolutely no affiliation with Lawson Software. Which makes for a sometimes contentious relationship with Lawson.
Posted in Consulting, ERP, LWSN, Thoughts
Make sure you check out the new book, Why New Systems Fail: Theory and Practice Collide, by my friend and fellow independent consultant Phil Simon. The book includes an interview with me on reporting.
Posted in Consulting, ERP, IT, Thoughts
The economy is on practically everyone’s mind these days. We know we’re in for a bumpy ride over the next several months, and perhaps even years. Everywhere we turn, organizations are “battening down the hatches”, learning to do more with less. One way to do that is to evaluate our tools as well as our approaches to some of the routine tasks that we perform.
Posted in Consulting, ERP, IT, LBI, ProcessFlow, Thoughts
LawsonGuru.com Forums