Shares of The Hackett Group (HCKT) were up more than 20% as the company posted solid first quarter results.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
The Hackett Group (HCKT) Crossed Above 50-Day Moving Average
IBM Turns to Software as It Reboots
International Business Machines Corp. is trying to transform itself again, as Chief ExecutiveSamuel J. Palmisano races to stay ahead of the technology industry's fast-changing profit curve.
The top priority this time for Big Blue—which famously dumped its personal computer business in 2004 to focus on consulting and services—is software. Mr. Palmisano wants that high-margin business to account for about half of the company's pretax profit by 2015, up from just over a third in 2003.
SAP Buys Sybase for $5.8 Billion
SAP AG said it would pay $5.8 billion to buy fellow software maker Sybase Inc., a move that would give the German giant key technology in its battle against archrival Oracle Corp. in the business-software market.
SAP Buys Sybase for $5.8 Billion - WSJ.com
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
I listened to this book on CD a couple of years ago and have found its concepts to be very consistent with how decisions need to be made in a fast pasted project environment. I'm currently trying to adapt this approach to a project in an organization where a primary risk to the project being successful is the organizations inability to make and stick to decisions. I'm not sure yet how to solve the "stick-to-it-ness" (is that a word?), but hope to improve the speed decision making.
Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, react to a new idea, or just make decisions faster.
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