by Gene Hammons | Jul 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
The next six weeks are a critical time of year for my best clients. While lesser companies simply move to auto-pilot during the summer, the leaders use the slower summer months as time to build a critical advantage. It’s true, the office is a tad quieter as many...
by Gene Hammons | Apr 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
There’s an App for Your Competitors – Quick, Hide the Customers… Gartner, a leading IT Research Firm reports that industry surveys show IT spending will increase significantly in 2013 and 2014 – story link here. Upshot of the survey is...
by Gene Hammons | Mar 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Interesting article from yesterday’s CIO Journal section in the Wall Street Journal, “Study: Most Financial Executives Unable to Evaluate IT Investments.” In a nutshell, it would seem most rate their companies either a C or D when asked about...
by Gene Hammons | Jan 28, 2013 | ERP, Software Selection, Uncategorized
Thinking about a family leadership discussion I attended last week – the gist was we SAY we value certain things, and we mean well, but our ACTIONS often show that we’re actually placing a higher value on other attributes when measured by how much...
by Gene Hammons | Jan 22, 2013 | ERP, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Uncategorized
In the information overload that is the internet, we have many trusted sources for information. Each source has a perspective, facts and opinion. This Mashup examines what we can learn overall, combining disparate sources and developing a Takeaway –...
by Gene Hammons | Jan 21, 2013 | ERP, Profitization, Software Selection, Uncategorized
Got into a discussion on LinkedIn over the last couple of days – started with the innocuous post “Which ERP is Best…” and I was kind of promoting my recent blog post which states that you can’t just ask such an open ended question –...