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The Inside Scoop on Intel Inside
You can contact Gene via GH@GeneHammons.com. I remember Richard Nixon, in some speech, somewhere, calling himself "The Education President". I can remember George W. Bush making near the same claim while passing the Teddy Kennedy authored "No Child Left Behind"...
Making Sausage
The title of this new blog effort - Making Sausage - takes a look at stories behind the scenes at food producers. Mostly from a perspective of ERP software and other IT improvements - probably because that's where I play. I've been doing this for some time - managing...
Strategic ERP Deployment in a Down Economy
Q1 bottom line profits up $350K at the same time sales are off 17%! Recently we had a huge ‘win’ at a ERP implementation customer. And excuse the vagueness of detail, but many private companies like to stay ‘private’ that way. But here’s the story. Spring of...
The Sad Saga of Snoburst Bottling
"We can’t afford to save 36 jobs and an $8m Company!" They didn't use those words, but that's what they said. The Partners Snoburst Bottling is the story of two partners, Jim* the Entrepreneur and Stuart* the Accountant. Jim’s role was to find and secure...
AI for Manufacturers and BI for All – Competing on Analytics
UPDATE: This 2007 Article predated our current drive to AI (Artificial Intelligence) and reliance on Big Data or BI (Business Intelligence) but caught the trend as it emerged and has served as the basic theory behind the monetization of data - or how exactly do we...
Managerial Decisionmaking – Quantitative Business Analysis (QBA)
This article ran in several business publications in 2006 and was updated for the Profit From ERP website in 2014 - since the theories and principles still fully apply - Ed. The goal of a software evaluation is to gather the available data and come up with a rational,...