Hat tip to Doc and his post where he comments and links to this, this and this - all suggesting that a network, or group, at some point of growth diminishes in value for each new participant. Appropriately termed as Metcalfe's plateau.

Despite being involved with some radically different Enterprise Software I have been fortunate enough to be frequently invited to study the wares and future plans of many legacy systems vendors.So again last week, with some of my EI friends, enjoying...

Being 'diplomatic' I'm not going to step into the debate featuring Dennis, Susan, Nenshad and others... but I've been waiting and waiting for one benefit to be touted, an important but unplanned benefit (the only one?) I've seen in practice myself: ...

Yet another TechEd is over, again definitely worth the time and effort.Mike and Stacey did amazing work yet again, my good blogger and SAP Mentor friends were a treat as always, and the management of SAP displays an amazing openness towards us unruly...

On Friday I was asked to give a presentation of Thingamy to an audience of non-techies. My preparation and energy was a tad hampered by a bad cold and three days of non-stop meetings at SAP TechEd.  The presentation format was seven minutes...

What if we could shift the whole world to renewable energy sources, feed and educate all children at no extra cost nor resource use? What if you could double your bottom line without cutting costs?All possible. Now.Of all things, the solution lies...