by Andrew White | January 23, 2012 | Comments Off
I was a little frustrated last week when I was held at bay by an MDM related issue at work. We tag our inquiries, when appropriate and allowed, with the vendor’s that are the focus of the conversation. One specific vendor name is not maintained correctly in our very large, and erstwhile accurate customer master. [...]
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by Andrew White | December 12, 2011 | Comments Off
A European agreement was reached Friday that apparently resulted in the UK being “relegated to the second division of Europe”. Britain’s Prime Minister was forced to Veto a plan for 27 countries to forge ahead with closer budgetary controls, and with the veto and lack of support, Britain’s vote “lost” 26 to 1. Better yet, [...]
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by Andrew White | September 9, 2011 | Comments Off
A few articles I spotted over the last couple of weeks caught my attention. Here are the more notable. Economics: Rituals of Rigour. After mistaken claims made ahead of the global crisis won much academic support, long-held assumptions were called into question – but the real world often remains overlooked or ignored. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/faba8834-cf09-11e0-86c5-00144feabdc0.html Financial Times, [...]
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by Andrew White | August 8, 2011 | Comments Off
I arrived back from vacation last week and while away I caught up on some reading. My favorite non-fiction was Empire of the Clouds: When Britain’s Aircraft Ruled the World, by James Hamilton-Paterson. Bach in the 40’s Britain had a lead, pretty much, in aircraft design and development. But the seeds of destruction, partly political [...]
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by Andrew White | July 7, 2011 | 2 Comments
Not sure that the headline title is all that unique (we have talked about demand outstripping supply in many parts of our global economy for years) but some interesting trend data nonetheless, on demographics and so on: http://www.scribd.com/doc/59489177/When-Demand-Outstrips-Supply-Copy. Well worth the read. Especially given my last book review – focused on long term cycles that [...]
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by Andrew White | June 29, 2011 | Comments Off
The Greek government votes on austerity measures in a few hours. If the vote goes south (ie “no”), and the IMF, EU and Germany don’t group hug Thursday to change their tune and support their “broke” neighbor, watch out for the beginning of the unraveling of the Euro as we know it today. Greeks may [...]
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by Andrew White | January 25, 2011 | 2 Comments
I spotted a great article that highlighted a classic issue. I research Master Data Management; and many other analysts at Gartner and elsewhere research this topic and many others. We often conclude at times that there is a “right” way to do things; a predictable way for technology to be used. We assume this about [...]
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by Andrew White | January 25, 2011 | Comments Off
I just finished reading the World Bank’s, “Global Economic Prospects: Crisis, Finance and Growth 2010”. I should have read it 6 months ago when it was published! But, the information was very interesting. The booklet provided a brief summary of the causes of the economic crisis that was triggered by the financial crisis. The data [...]
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Category: Economy Tags: Global Economy
by Andrew White | December 16, 2010 | Comments Off
I am just wrapping up a note on “Do Organizations with ERP “need” MDM?” We take many inquiries from users with large packaged application suites (some called ERP) and many such users are struggling with the MDM question. Interestingly, thought the question is simple, it turns out the answer is not as simple. It turns [...]
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by Andrew White | December 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
It is always cool to see your own company in the newspaper. Well, not always – I suppose it depends on the reason. I get a real kick when I see Gartner coverage in the FT – my favorite printed newspaper. This last week saw yet another focus on “The Connected Enterprise” which resulted in [...]
Category: Economy Pattern-Based Strategy Tags: Economics, Patter-Based Strategy
