Data Modeling with Generalizations – The Tool Issue
A bunch of factors have converged lately on the topic of generalized versus specific data modeling approaches. I’m working through…
Marketing Lessons Learned From Micro-Finance In India
Besides Wall Street bankers, the poor of the world need access to financial liquidity, too. But loaning money to individuals…
Aggregating Tags
One of the funnest parts of any web analytics role is instrumentation: the tagging of the various parts of the…
The evolving nature of IT partnerships
I have recently re-joined the corporate world, after taking a few years to pursue a sea change, which is a…
Training students on mega-scale data
In a New York Times article (sub. req.) published on the weekend, IBM and Google expressed doubts that the students…
Salesforce.com and Oracle: A Tale of Two Worlds
In the current edition of First Thing Monday I opened by asking, “What’s salesforce.com doing at Oracle OpenWorld? At the…
Why change management needs design thinking
Unfortunately, traditional change management tactics fall short of realizing successful change. Tactical change management plans are only as useful as…
Oracle OpenWorld 2009 update #1
Officially day 2 of Oracle OpenWorld but for me day 3 since I started on Sunday with the Oracle PartnerNetwork…
SAP Executive Q&A – #sapteched09
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at SAP Executive Q&A – #sapteched09.Here at SAP Tech Ed 2009…
What carries you up will also bring you down
In Rules of Thumb, Alan Weber quotes legendary venture capitalist John Doerr discussing the original business plans for companies he invested…
