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Reader response to Bersin’s post about Ellison stepping down surprising by Jon Hansen

September 24, 2014

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It is no secret to my regular readers that I am not a big fan of Oracle’s Larry Ellison. The origins of my disenchantment go all the back to the vendor’s early days when Ellison was forced to lay off approximately 10 percent of the company’s workforce due to questionable accounting practices. The practices to […]

Throwback Thursday: The Origins of Failure for ERP – Jon Hansen on the Coupa Cabana

April 24, 2014

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Keeping within the spirit of the social media world’s Throwback Thursday practice – I have used an old photo from my days as President of a publicly traded software company to comply with the image requirement – I thought that I would share the following article that was posted on the Coupa Cabana blog back […]

Managing the Process of Automation: Leveraging Capabilities Without Forfeiting Accountability

August 14, 2009

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“It ain’t easy leading a software company these days.  Customers are sick of poor quality, inadequate security, old-fashioned business models, and pie-in-the-sky claims for trends like open source.  They just want software that works.  That was the message coming from customers, industry experts, and even some company executives at the Software 2005 conference last week […]