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The State of Personalization Technology
The term "personalization" is being thrown around so much by vendors and marketing folks that it's now used to describe almost any sort of customer interaction tool or application. As a result, there is some confusion as to what "personalization" actually entails.
Negotiation -- Not Something You Typically Learned in College
Summer Vacation
India Update
I've just returned from a whirlwind business trip to India, my first since January of this year. In January, the US recession and associated slowdown in IT spending were recognized as significant events, but the common opinion was that Indian vendors would be relatively unaffected.
The Human Side of E-Business
Active Stakeholder Participation
One of the core practices of agile modeling (AM) is active stakeholder participation.
How Many Portals Are Enough?
I continue to see references to companies developing enterprise knowledge portals, business intelligence (BI) portals, customer relationship management portals, and even balanced scorecard portals.
E-Business Critical to Long-Term Success
First, Break All the Rules
I usually stay away from books with cutesy names, but I finally picked this one up because it showed up on many best-seller lists. First, Break All the Rules , by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (Simon & Schuster, 1999, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/
Whither Internet Appliances?
Who's Responsible for Planning
The Business Internet Consortium and the Supply Chain Council
Choosing Chaos
"But, Monsieur Jeff," Francois implored. "Surely French wine will not present a problem for you."
Preventative Medicine For CRM Initiatives
I've been involved with a company attempting to straighten out a decision support system it developed to streamline its software sales, marketing, and customer support operations.
Realities of Decentralization
Using IT for Law Enforcement
Take Advantage of the Masters
Barry's Latest Object Storage Fact Book
Software development is increasingly object-oriented (OO). Java is an OO language. The latest version of Visual Basic and Microsoft's new C# are also OO languages. And components and various component techniques rely on object techniques. Thus, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) application servers are also OO programming environments. The popular press may prefer to dismiss objects and focus on components, but serious software developers know that object technologies, in one guise or another, now dominate software development and architectural designs.
What Good Is a Metrics Baseline?
The goal of gathering data to establish a baseline of IT activities should be to answer some clear-cut questions. These questions should then provide a roadmap for future updates to the baseline. The questions might include:
Data Broker Integration Tools
I continue to come across articles and marketing material pushing the idea that maybe companies don't really need to build and maintain data warehouses anymore due to data brokering products such as those from Enterworks or Metagon.