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- Should you benefit from ACN’s bloodletting?
- If you like great talent, you should….. Accenture has cut loose many senior executives recently and will pare some more given last Thursday’s announcement. I know some of these folks. Specific vertical segments have been pared down to reflect new market realities. These include: automotive...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring
- Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- How Earnouts are Costing Huron its CEO, CFO and CAO
- Earnouts are those interesting residual matters that pop up in some acquisitions. An earnout exists to provide a transition period between some of the acquired firm’s owners and the new owner/management team. Earnouts are certainly valuable for an acquirer when there are key persons in the acquired organization who can...
- Blog posts 2009-08-02
- PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?
- PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?audit no auditFrom a technical direction I have almost 30 years experience with computers and software and over the past 8 years or so I have often seen auditors such as KPMG/PWC and alike audit a bank, insurance, payment type companies and...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Why are the pieces of BearingPoint going to Auditors???
- Should BearingPoint clients care? BearingPoint this week announced the breakup/reorganization plans for various parts of the firm. Essentially, once these deals are completed, BearingPoint will cease to exist. According to BearingPoint: BearingPoint and Deloitte have entered into an asset purchase...
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three
- To Recap We're heading into the homestretch. Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night. Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold. For those of you who missed the previous...
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?
- The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?Trust IBM!?Having witnessed first hand PWC's work on implementing SAP, and IBM's capabilities as an IT outsourcing expert, the trust is gone.Not a new concept, and not isolated to IBMThe concept of providing business services that fall...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- EDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projects
- EDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projectsEDS' troubled legacy of failed IT projectsThis is a pretty good reason why outsourcing your IT doesn't work. Way too many complications and its just not as efficient. Don't get me wrong, outsourcing works to some degree, like hiring cable monkeys to...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?
- Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?Merchantability is implied in any...product. It can not be written out in a contract or license. It is time for IT vendors, software or hardware or any combination, to be held financially accountable for their actions. Everyone else in the world is held...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spend
- IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spendWill not succeed...There is no way this will work. I have it on authority from my rep that IBM focuses too much on dinosaur technologies like AIX and Linux. Therefore, security cannot be obtained. I on the other hand stand...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- SAP's Business ByDesign go to market
- One of the niggling questions about SAP's Business ByDesign is just how the heck it is going to reach the numbers it says it wants to achieve. 10,000 new customers a year by 2010, many coming from this market, is ambitious. To date, SAP has been fuzzy about how that...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Accenture inks Microsoft as BPO customer
- Accenture inks Microsoft as BPO customerThat's oddI thought MSFT's core processes were running on SAP. If so then this must be a change of tack.Ballmer was until Sarb Ox on Accenture's BoardBecause Ballmer was until recently on Accenture's board of directors, I find this news distressing. The arrangement does not...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- SAP's chief looks to new day after TomorrowNow
- SAP's chief looks to new day after TomorrowNowAlbert van Wissen Exposed; Enron-styleJust a cursory review by a US citizen demonstrates how this is going down Enron-style. First look at finance. Albert van Wissen is responsible for SAP's worldwide standards involving profitability. He joined TomorrowNow from SAP as Global Chief Financial...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- The Interactive Agency: Not an Ad Agency, Not a geek squad... a Next-gen Integrator
- In New York, where real estate is still at a premium, one firm is consolidating all its Manhattan addresses and moving in time for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade uptown to Times Square to fill an 80,000 square foot space left by Google. The new digs will include: a usability...
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
- Rodney Dangerfield & IT Services: The Invisible Third Choice
- In the 90s, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal once dubbed me, “The Queen of Outsourcing.” The outsourcing market has changed quite a bit since then. Today with outsourcing’s reputation under fire by American workers and, well, Lou Dobbs, I’m not sure I’d want that title again. Yet, when...
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- SAP, Accenture team up on health care software
- SAP, Accenture team up on health care softwareVistA Medical Imagining/ RecordsAccenture is the former Andersen Consulting, of Arthur Andersen Enron shredding infamy. When I worked at Arthur Andersen, it had the largest health care IT consulting practice in the US, and wasn't married to any one vendor. I worked as...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-20
- Corporate loyalties and the temporal disconnect
- Corporate loyalties and the temporal disconnectNopeOnce you start talking about people and their responses - you are talking PERSONALITY TYPES! P-type Perceiving people think out-of-the-box naturally so they have no problem with approaching problems in a new way (actually they have NO CHOICE but to ALWAYS approach things in a...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-24
- Salesforce.com faces up to integration challenge
- Salesforce.com faces up to integration challengeBetween a rock and a...hard place is where salesforce finds itself in the market today. For all its early success the god's eye view of their business looks like:a) Pricing is well-above equilibrium for the broader 20 seat space...which consists of millions of businesses around...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-04
- Ballmer: IBM in the crosshairs
- Ballmer: IBM in the crosshairsAcceture Was Andersen Consulting"I just came off the board of Accenture recently." - BallmerHuzzah, Huzzah, finally a move that makes some sence. Ballmer for to long has had this relationship with the old Anderson Consulting (of Arther Andersen - Enron scandle fame) that has confused investors...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-17
- Jobs' new Disney role raises conflict concerns
- Jobs' new Disney role raises conflict concernsWhere's the BEEF!?!Take it from someone who has gone through divorce. NOTHING lasts forever. So big whoop HP and MS may find themselves kicked to the curb.....blank happens.Pagan jimConflicts?Are you kidding??? Nobody screams and cries about Bill Gates abuses anymore, why should...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-25
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