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- Business Process Management: Best Practices of Coors Brewing Co., Deere & Co., and Northrop Grumman Space Technology
- Modern organizations must manage an ecosystem with no boundaries, one that is consistently buffeted by globalization, faster cycle time requirements, unknown competitors, and complexity at every turn. Business process management becomes the art of the disciplined, where decisions are made at the front line, closer to the customer. To focus...
- Tags: Business Process, Deere & Co., BPM, APQC, Northrop Grumman Corp., Molson Coors Brewing Co., Best Practice, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Globalization, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
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- I can take costly energy, rice shortages, pricier platinum, but not my beer!!!!
- I can take costly energy, rice shortages, pricier platinum, but not my beer!!!!why........ not the beer, its the end of the worldits the end of the society as we know it man ....ill died from dehydration's.....WHY WHY WHY well i could turn toward red wine or...
- Tags: American Ale, hop, American beer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- I can take costly energy, rice shortages, pricier platinum, but not my beer!!!!
- If this be a harbinger of things to come, life is gonna get bleak here pretty soon. I'm not talking about recession or no recession, health care or not health care, not even worried about food prices going up 50% in a year. I eat too much anyway....
- Tags: Hop, Food & Beverage, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance
- Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...
- Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Home Brew Log 3 (exe)
- It is true that a home brewers progress towards perfection in beer making is proportional to the brewing records kept. Record all the details of every brew you produce, print reports, labels, tasting score sheets and a shopping list. Calculate alcohol percentage, units costs and unit conversions. Use either Imperial/US...
- Tags: Backups, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-05-06
- Is Cloud computing too good to be true for enterprises?
- Just how valuable will Cloud computing be to organizations? The ease of deployment and pay-as-you-go pricing model offered through Amazon Web Services, and now Google with its Google App Engine (with no pricing model) could be a honey trap, as some of my esteemed colleagues here at ZDNet warn. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Dion, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- Hybrid cars becoming ever more political
- It's not just in California where hybrid and plug-in cars are a political issue. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is working to take the issue global. They have launched a campaign to get General Motors, still the latrgest car manufacturer based in America, to speed up its...
- Tags: Car, Plug-in, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Forrester: Forget Macs. In business, it's still all about Windows
- Forrester: Forget Macs. In business, it's still all about WindowsCanna get a big Duh ?NTHave to be careful with "business" and "enterprise"I assume that the research focuses on LARGE companies. Apple's best shot is small companies that do not have or want and IT dept. There are millions...
- Tags: Desktops, Strategy, Selling PC, Apple Macintosh, Forrester Research Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- Want better tasting coffee? Just defy gravity.
- Want better tasting coffee? Just defy gravity.Everything old is new againWe call this a [i]perculator[/i]. I have a old style electric one and the coffee is hotter and richer.RE: Want better tasting coffee? Just defy gravity.Its certainly not a new idea. I bought a house a decade ago and...
- Tags: gravity
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Want better tasting coffee? Just defy gravity.
- I don't know about you, but for me, a workday without coffee is like a cross-country trip without an RV. It just isn't the same. So when I spotted this cool coffee gadget on Gizmodo, I got excited. The very neat Kahva coffee maker by Lina Fischer...
- Tags: Coffee, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- The end of software...
- ...as you know it. Right now I'm falling over startup vendors vying for attention in the so-called 'social software' space. The fact enterprise people hate the term doesn't seem to bother those who are bypassing IT as they sell into the marketing departments of companies at departmental budget prices. But...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Fill your car for $1.10 a gallon?
- Menlo Park, Calif.'s ZeaChem has come up with a way to turn wood chips into ethanol that will sell for around $1.10 a gallon or less when it comes out in 2010. Brewing and petrochemical technology go into the mix. News.com Editor at Large Michael Kanellos talks with founder Dan...
- Tags: wood, fuel, michael kanellos, green, ethanol
- Videos 2008-03-11
- No clear sailing for wind power
- Courtesy: US Geological Survey In many venues wind power can be as controversial as nuclear power. In Scotland there's a big fight brewing over mlountaintop windmills to generate electricity. One charge: the tall towers holding the turbines uglify the once beautiful landscape. Critics...
- Tags: Turbine, Farm, North Dakota, Wind, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Little nation has big green ideas
- P'rtugal may become a real-life test case for renewable energy. The country has no coal, no oil. Though Portugal is heavily agricultural there's no corn lobby, no rapeseed industry, no huge dependence on fertilizer, no local auto companies. Chief exports for Portugal include wine, fish, beef, olive...
- Tags: Portugal, Wave Energy Equipment, Telecom & Utilities, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- VMware steps up IT automation game
- VMware is demonstrating four virtual machine management offerings designed to automate the data center. On Monday, VMware announced four products to better manage and automate the IT department to coincide with its VMworld Europe conference. Among the offerings: VMware Lifecycle Manager is designed to...
- Tags: Game, Theme, Information Technology, VMware Inc., VMware Lab Manager, VMware Site Recovery Manager, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Garmin: The curse of the Nuvifone and GPS price competition
- On the surface Garmin's fourth quarter results could be summed up in one word: Wow. But there are cracks in the model and worries about falling prices abound. And those cracks were enough to spook investors. These cracks--essentially worries about average selling prices--overshadowed a nice quarter. How...
- Tags: Garmin Ltd., Nuvifone, GPS, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Financial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Some+won%27t+have+to+wait+until+March+for+Vista+SP1%2C+after+all
- Some+won%27t+have+to+wait+until+March+for+Vista+SP1%2C+after+allIf the code is final, why not release it? (nt)nt = no textWhat a comical bunch of carp...NTWhy not just get from the web:?No link, this will be deleted. If you are truly that anxious to get RC1 though, you don't have to wait.TripleIIMS: we hate windows usersthey hate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- SOA + Web 2.0 = higher business IQ
- Business intelligence is becoming 'collaborative intelligence,' thanks to the confluence of SOA and Web 2.0 approaches. Business intelligence becomes collaborative intelligence That's the theme of a Webinar I recently moderated, featuring noted author Don Tapscott, Molson Canada BI manager Katrina Coyle, and SAP's Lothar...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Web, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Web Services, Tools & Techniques, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Internet, Marketing, Data Management, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- StrangeBrew Java
- This powerful and easy to use brewing software is addressed to all of you who enjoy making experiments. StrangeBrew is a tool that lets you formulate homebrew recipes and track batches that you have brewed. As a formulator, it helps you predict the colour, bitterness, starting and finishing gravities, and...
- Tags: Beer, Style, StrangeBrew, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- Microsoft to push WGA-free IE 7 update to corporate users in February
- Microsoft to push WGA-free IE 7 update to corporate users in FebruaryGotta give em some creditMS appears to be rolling back WGA capabilities across the board. It would appear they are listening to their customers. Without fanfare, or lame spin like Sony (touting themselves as champions of DRM...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, MSFT, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Silverlight
- Discussion threads 2008-01-15
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