Posted on July 31st, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, South Africa
David Cannington of Traction USA shared the following article with me. It was published in a couple of Australian newspapers including the Melbourne Age. It provides a great deal of information to Australian companies trying to enter the US market. I think most of it would apply to South African companies as well.
Any comments?
Posted on July 30th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Aviation
I didn’t post anything last week, because I attended the world’s largest aviation event in Oshkosh Wisconsin, EAA’s AirVenture annual event. It attracts 700,000 visitors during the week, 10,000 planes are on display and/or flying and camp Scholler is home to 40,000 people during the week. It’s an amazing event even if you are not [...]
Posted on July 12th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, South Africa
Recently I blogged regarding the difference between US and South African business terms. In this post I will give you some every day words that are different. For instance, in South Africa you walk on the sidewalk and drive with your manual car on the pavement and stop when the robot is red… Btw, have [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under SAP, Technology
Well, even with NetWeaver and XI it seems that it is still not easy to integrate 3rd party systems with SAP. I did some research and found the following interesting products. The first one that seems very interesting (based on their website, I’m signed up for a demo next week) is the an Integration Appliance [...]
Posted on July 4th, 2007 by Carel
Venderprisey linked to an excellent presentation on ESOA. I post it here for your convenience. It’s also an example of an excellent presentation.
Do you agree?
Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, South Africa
This post is a continuation of the guest lecture I gave at GSU. A group of MBA students are planning to visit South Africa to meet with South African companies. I gave them this introduction to business terms used in South Africa.
In South Africa revenue or sales is called turnover. I’ve been in a [...]
