This is due to the fact that vertically integrated supply chains are often inflexible in terms of responding to the diverse stakeholder dynamics that are reshaping the ways in which organizations buy and sell in the emerging global economy. In a 2002 article Forrester Research’s Navi Radjou linked the lack of flexibility to the inherent […]
February 2, 2011
A disruptive innovation is an innovation that disrupts an existing market. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by lowering price or designing for a different set of consumers. from Wikipedia In June 2009 I […]
January 20, 2011
JMP Securities included Rosslyn Analytics in its annual Hot 100 list because it is one of the fastest growing UK technology companies with a rapidly expanding global customer base across the private and public sectors. from Press Release dated January 20th, 2011 What the title of today’s post lacks in originality, Rosslyn Analytics more than […]
January 2, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers In 2010, there were 268 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 722 posts. There were 106 pictures uploaded, taking up […]
November 9, 2010
TomorrowNow was founded in December 1998 by Andrew Nelson and Seth Ravin, to provide upgrade and technical service to PeopleSoft licensees with large, complex environments. In March 2002, the company changed its business to focus on providing third-party maintenance and support service to companies licensing enterprise software. In January, 2005, TomorrowNow was purchased by SAP […]
October 14, 2010
“I believe the phrase “spend intelligence” to be misleading. To me, it sounds like a new take or sub-segment of business intelligence software applications which offer analytics and dashboard capabilities and sit on top of existing systems of record. The problem is that spend visibility and analytics is much more complex, requiring data cleansing, rationalization, […]
May 26, 2010
In my May 18th Procurement Insights post titled “SaaS Sprawl, One-Stop Shopping and Free 8-Tracks To Boot: A Sad Day in the World of SAP” I indicated that SAP’s John Wookey might have been overly optimistic when he put so much stock in customers coming to SAP and saying that it “would sure be nice […]
May 12, 2010
Rosslyn Analytics Releases New White Paper on the Business Value of Non-Consultancy Implemented Spend Analytics Charles Clark to be interviewed live on BlogTalkRadio London, United Kingdom – 12 May 2010: In the fast changing, inter-connected global economy, private and public sector organizations can no longer “survive” the inefficiencies of the overarching, monolithic undertakings associated with […]
April 7, 2010
As you know I have been covering Rosslyn Analytics since early January (although they were on my radar screen well before then). In the two articles that I have written, January 27th, 2010 – Rosslyn Analytics Adaptive Intelligence Reflects Scientific Principles and, March 18th, 2010 – Rosslyn Analytics: Find a Need and Fill IT! I […]
March 18, 2010
Ruth Stafford Peale, wife of The Power of Positive Thinking author, Norman Vincent Peale is credited with the famous quote “Find a need and fill it!” Powerful and insightful in its very simplicity, it’s true meaning is surprisingly and consistently overlooked by the majority of organizations – especially those within the world of high tech […]
February 22, 2011
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