Take the test Max Effgen, February 10, 2010 Interesting color profile personality test. Check it out. USA Today: Favorite colors test shows CEOs are different; take the test Continue Reading
Bonds or TDs, They’re Still a Gamble Max Effgen, February 6, 2010 Interesting weekend read at the Wall Street Journal on a bond-trading specialist from Cantor Fitzgerald that wants to treat casinos like the stock market. WSJ: Whether Bonds or Touchdowns, They’re Still a Gamble Continue Reading
Paul English of Kayak Max Effgen, February 5, 2010 Great read on customer service over @ Inc. Great way to improve product and process simultaneously. Would your organization obsess like this? Maybe you should. They say, “Why would you pay an engineer $150,000 to answer phones when you could pay someone in Arizona $8 an hour?” If you make… Continue Reading
iPad, the Kindle Killer? Max Effgen, January 29, 2010 Lots of chatter about iPad as the Kindle killer. The chatter is bunk. Kindle has a specific target audience, a niche. That niche loves the Kindle. Niche is the new critical mass. Look at some of the advantages Kindle has: Battery Life. Kindle can last up to 7 days without… Continue Reading
Fisk blasts McGwire Max Effgen, January 21, 2010December 2, 2013 With the latest of the steroid revelations, I was glad to see Fisk blast McGwire, Clemens and other PED users. Fisk was a household name in my house even before he joined the White Sox (the parents are from Boston). PEDs are a real problem with the sport and will… Continue Reading
Tablet Talk Max Effgen, January 20, 2010 With all the talk of an Apple tablet, it is worth taking the time to understand that this is far from a new idea. Jerry Kaplan’s Startup is not only a great read on the Silicon Valley start up life but on the origins and game of tablet computing. Notable… Continue Reading
The Futility Of Price Controls Max Effgen, January 19, 2010 For many years I have found the notion of price controls interesting mainly because there is vast amounts of historical evidence that state they do not work. Time after time, price controls are put forward as a solution, most recently in Venezuela. Interesting read at Forbes that tracts price controls… Continue Reading
Denis O’Brien & Haiti Max Effgen, January 16, 2010 All the incredible and horrible stories from the Haiti earthquake made me think of an article I awhile back in Forbes. Digicel CEO Denis O’Brien has brought mobile telecommunications to the world’s poorest countries. Digicel has been a large part of the surviving communications infrastructure in Haiti and has offered… Continue Reading
Google in China Max Effgen, January 14, 2010 What it’s not willing to compromise is the security of the cloud, on which its entire business rests. ~ Nicholas Carr Carr is spot on, again. Check the full article here: Nicholas Carr: Rough Type UPDATE 1/17 Another fine read on the topic from Forbes. Different take. Google has been… Continue Reading
Keep it simple Max Effgen, January 6, 2010 One of my rules is to always consider the front office and the back office needs and desires of any CRM project. I recently came across a service process that generate a large volume of automated tickets. The process was over-engineered. Nearly all of these automated tickets were not true… Continue Reading