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This links to the abstract of February’s Harvard Business Review article titled “Avoid the Four Perils of CRM”. The article is a good read, authored by three senior Bain consultants. There is also an “ enhanced edition” of the article here, that “draws out the main points and an annotated bibliography that points you to…

Brief story about NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s recent address to the New York Software Industry Association. The most interesting notion is that elected officials will need business and technology experience to be truly effective. While I’d like it to be true, I wonder: do our leaders need a technical foundation to be competent in their jobs?…

Business Week Online claims that the big .com sites are getting bigger, claiming more eyeballs, and more of your online time. “The online winners today are the winners, period.” Well, fine. For a few years. But there was a time that K-Mart was the king, and Wal-mart was an upstart. And who would’ve guessed Subway…

Jeff Immelt talks to Knowledge @ Wharton about predictable revenue growth at G.E. (“We look at a recession as a great time to play offense.”), post-Enron accounting (“We’re all going to have to find ways to live in a world that has more transparency and disclosure.”) and decentralizing the organization ( plans to shift “backroom”…

New Windows could solve age-old puzzle. special report  Microsoft is tackling the long-elusive goal of easily finding information hidden in computer files, a conquest that would deal a blow to competitors but come at a price. [CNET News.com]

Andersen widens its search for a buyer. They’re busy: negotiating with the SEC to settle its potential liabilities as a result of Enron’s collapse, begging Deloitte, KPMG and E&Y to buy it… how do they have time to answer the calls from clients firing them? Here’s what’s interesting: the article claims (and I think the…

It worked! Following the instructions here, I imported all of my blogger posts into Radio 8. The only thing that took time was editing the internal links (links to previous posts) – which only took an hour or so. Next up – playing with the template to tweak it just so… Adios, blogger.

Testing to see if the import of my Blogger posts worked…

I will be transitioning away from blogger.com to Userland’s Radio application by week’s end. I had high hopes for Blogger’s ability to serve as a web-based front-end to this site, but in the end the inability of the company to handle their own growth has proven problematic. I haven’t had reliable access to the site…

Arthur Andersen Is Said to Be Near a Sale to a Rival. No surprise, the biggest issue remains how DT can assume Andersen’s assets without also assuming its liabilities:In addition to confronting potential fines from criminal charges, Andersen is also facing possible regulatory action by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as myriad lawsuits…