July 2008

My Diigo Bookmarks 07/31/2008

July 31, 2008 Asides

The construction industry. By Simon Sweetman – 24 Jul 2008 This UK perspective on the construction industry makes interesting reading when taken alongside the US $40 billion payroll tax hole tags: tax avoidance Businesses deliberately cheating U.S. out of $40 billion in payroll taxes – Financial Week What surprises me is that the figure isn’t [...]

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Proctologist or dental surgeon?

July 30, 2008 General

An interesting Twitter conversation broke out earlier today when the effervescent open source hand waver aka James Governor drew a comparison between his firm Redmonk and Gartner. I argued the comparison is suprious because they do different things – better to think about proctologists and dental surgeons. He replied with chiropracter and hospital GP. I [...]

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Where to next for HMRC's IT plans?

July 30, 2008 General

John Stokdyk’s excellent analysis of HMRC‘s IT woes should be required reading for anyone attempting to either work with HMRC’s electronic ‘facilities’ or those wondering how and why large scale IT projects are so prone to failure. I was aprticualrly drawn to one of John’s last conclusions: But the auditor has made a fundamental mistake [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks

July 30, 2008 Asides

HMRC Is Shite: IT Is Not Our Business – PAYE Cock Up Ken taking the pish – in his own inimitable style tags: hmrc Seth’s Blog: Are you in the tribe? I’m wondering whether Seth has jumped the shark with this stunt tags: godin Businesses deliberately cheating U.S. out of $40 billion in payroll taxes [...]

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Bigging it up for BlueAnt

July 30, 2008 General

The other week I happened across an analyst presentation by Michael Cote of Redmonk. Michael’s a really nice guy and knows his stuff – always a good combination. Anyhoo – he’d tipped up at Porter Novelli, a PR/AR company, to present about how his firm does their thing. In true open source fashion, Michael put [...]

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I'd prefer a root canal filling

July 30, 2008 General

Pinching and parodying a line from Vinnie seems appropriate having spent the last day and night clearing email. I returned to over 350 emails. OK, so 129 relate to a project on which I’m working and don’t really need reading. But even so, clearing out the dross was tiresome (that got about 150 done pretty [...]

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If they're doing it why not you?

July 24, 2008 General

I stumbled across this fascinating piece of research: The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently released a longitudinal study examining Inc. 500 social media usage. The key result is in early 2008 77% of the companies surveyed were using online social media.  This is is up from 57% in 2007. The data [...]

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The cost of saas accounting

July 23, 2008 Cloud Computing/SaaS

One of the key benefits put forward by the SaaS operators is the reduction in total cost of ownership because the saas vendors offer a rental model and the service is accessible via a web browser. Without commenting on feature/functions or relative bang per buck, I’ve set out the monthly per user cost from some [...]

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What really happened at Levis?

July 22, 2008 General

Mike Krigsman endeavours to dissect the impact of the SAP ERP implementation on Levi’s accounts quoting liberally from the company’s latest 10-Q quarterly filing. Other titles jump on the claim made by Levi’s that: We ran into technical issues going through the implementation process, which interrupted shipping for about a week. We experienced shipping delays [...]

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