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James D. Black commented on the blog post Blackboard to be acquired by Private Equity Firm 1 year, 10 months ago
Here is a link to the article: http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/07/01/blackboard-to-be-acquired-by-private-equity-firm.aspx
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James D. Black commented on the blog post Newsweek article: Where Entrepreneurs Go Shopping 1 year, 10 months ago
This looks like a fun and interesting business. surprising that they are based in nyc. i expect that if the business continues to grow, they will feel the need to move to a place with lower overhead. after this set of reading i am thinking about getting back into hobby electronics, but of course i [...]
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James D. Black wrote a new blog post: Newsweek article: Where Entrepreneurs Go Shopping 1 year, 10 months ago
Good article in Newsweek that complements our reading for next class: In The Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/06/26/chain-of-diy-stores-sparks-inventions.html I view this trend as evolutionary rather than disruptive. Hobbyists have been around forever and there have been options for building…[Read more]
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James D. Black wrote a new blog post: Knowledge Management at Katzenbach Partners, LLC 1 year, 11 months ago
The founders of Katzenbach Partners have ambitious growth plans; expecting to grow by 25% per year over the next five years. Their goal is to increase the number of employees from 150 employees in four offices to over 500 employees in eight or nine offices. With such aggressive growth plans, the company is faced with the [...]
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James D. Black wrote a new blog post: Eat Your Vegetables, and Don’t Forget to Tweet 1 year, 11 months ago
Interesting article on the use of WEB 2.0, by a high tech family. http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112952/family-that-tweets-wsj?mod=family-kids_parents For those of you with small children, what do you think of this parenting style? With so much focus on kids spending too much time on line rather than in face to face play with their…[Read more]
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James D. Black commented on the blog post Discussion question: Why are business processes so important to IT and to the firm? 1 year, 12 months ago
Without going into detail, I can say that at my company, many business practices are poorly documented and in practice employees often do not follow what is documented. This is shocking for a company with $15 B in sales. Not surprisingly the many systems and applications are fragmented, with different interfaces and unrelated data bases. [...]
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James D. Black commented on the blog post Cisco Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT 1 year, 12 months ago
Developing a comprehensive economic justification for an IT project can be difficult. The financial benefits can be difficult to quantify. In some cases it is helpful to consider the cost of not initiating a project. In this case, Cisco should be able to establish the cost of the two recent failures. What did the two [...]
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James D. Black wrote a new blog post: Cisco Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT 1 year, 12 months ago
In early May 1994, Randy Pond and Peter Slovik, the CIO and the Director of Manufacturing, at Cisco respectively, made a proposal to the Board of Directors to replace their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. This analysis of the case study will focus on two questions; ‘How was the ERP project justified to the Board for [...]
Great find. We need one in Philadelphia.