January 2007

Blouse monsters and superpowers

January 30, 2007 Humour

While the accounting readership dwindles as it heads towards the 31st January filing deadline, it might be worth spending a few moments considering some of the problems Scott Adams has been wrestling with recently. Like the Undulating Blouse Monster: I remember a high school classmate who could wiggle his ears so vigorously that he could [...]

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The Triangle of Truth

January 30, 2007 General

Ed Kless provides a detailed analysis why projects go wrong. According to Ed, it starts with a failure to scope out a project at the beginning, instead concentrating on the time and cost elements in what he envisages as a circle of value, enclosed by an equilateral triangle: The big problem with most professionals is [...]

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Why PR sucks

January 30, 2007 Marketing

I’m often asked: ‘What do you think about PR?’ and the answer mostly comes in two parts: PR is there to tell the story you want to hear as a client. It is not there to tell the truth Most PR is an utter waste of money. There are exceptions but this is pretty much [...]

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LinkedIn grows up, but can't substitute relationship

January 30, 2007 General

I’m registered at LinkedIn but I don’t really use it except to look up contact information I might not have in my address book or to find people I’ve lost contact with but who are part of the LinkedIn network. I know many people swear by it while others see it as an intrusion, especially [...]

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Temporary hiccup

January 30, 2007 General

I said I’d show a simple way to add goodness yesterday but haven’t done so. I’ve got what I hope will be a temporary hiccup in my technical understanding of the ‘thingy.’ As soon as I get an answer, I’ll be able to put the post up. If this sounds mysterious well…|’d rather save the [...]

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What if?

January 30, 2007 Humour

Courtesy of the Gadget Guy in Germany. For all you Jose Mourihno fans. You know who you are -:) It’s been viewed 1.8 million times. WOW. Technorati Tags: humor

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Cost modeling

January 30, 2007 Innovation

Eric Hiller has recently started a weekly series at Spend Matters covering ‘product cost modeling.’ This is a set of techniques that goes way beyond cost estimation and control of the kind usually associated with cost accounting. It’s worth starting with his ‘demistifying‘ post to get a feel for the topic and then reeling back [...]

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SAP and Microsoft messing up the mid-market channel

January 29, 2007 General

Simon Griffiths is a South African VAR I’ve known since his JD Edwards days. He’s one of the good guys. It seems that in his home country at least, neither Microsoft nor SAP score well for VAR management: In the case of Microsoft, the consensus is that in South Africa they are fairly clueless about [...]

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Open Source for SMB in practice

January 29, 2007 Innovation

This is the kind of story that blows me away. It has all the right ingredients: authenticity, originality and innovative thinking. Last week, I had a fascinating email conversation with Martyn Shiner, CFO at Severn Delta Ltd, a small British manufacturer of kitchen textiles that sell under the Sarah Smith brand but which are also [...]

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So much more stylish

January 29, 2007 Humour

Courtesy of Charon QC…the Blawg from spr-consilio.com, one of the funniest law blogs I know comes this cartoon competition. The prize is impressive. Which in turn took me to the Carbolic Smokeball Company and this delightful ‘must have’ (see pic) tissue holder for the accountant’s desk. So much more stylish when you hand over the [...]

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