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This week's Advisor is about distance learning, one of my favorite subjects and one of my favorite pursuits. Living as I do -- off the beaten track -- the ability to access information makes it possible for me to remain current on a lot of things. In my case, as with billions of other people who live off the beaten track, learning at a distance is wonderful and amazing.

Getting measurements right can be devilishly difficult, but getting them wrong can be downright dangerous. If you look behind most self-defeating behavior in organizations, you will often find a well-intentioned measurement that has gone wrong.

Sitting here reading a news item that reports that Oracle and SAP plan to release new analytic capabilities for their respective enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications (Oracle Financials and SAP R/3), the first question that comes to my mind is: Where have they been?

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As we all know, achieving IT and business alignment is not easy. We must tie business strategy, technology, and people into a comprehensive and synergistic package that, as Paul Strassmann says, will demonstrate a positive relationship between IT and accepted financial measures of performance. However, as my mother used to say, you need to be careful for what you wish for, because you just might get it.