Posted on February 29th, 2008 by Carel
Today I stumbled upon Sylvia Chaudoir‘s SAP HCM Expertise website. Sylvia is an ex-SAP HCM Consulting manager and she’s always been very willing to assist others. She’s presenting at the HR2008 conference in Orlando and you can meet her at “Meet the experts”. You can click on the Publications link to get a number of [...]
Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Entrepreneurship, SAP, South Africa, Venture Capital
I’ve mentioned Hasso Plattner a number of times in my blog. He is the colorful co-founder and former CEO of SAP AG. He is also the father of SAP’s client-server 3-tiered product called R/3. This week Hasso Plattner launch HP Ventures Africa (Hasso Plattner — not to be confused with Hewlett Packard) in Cape Town, [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Technology
OM Malik’s post on Scribd’s iPaper prompted me to try this service and so far I am very intrigued by the possibilities. It’s easy to sign up and the viewer works great. Here is NOT an example of an embedded document. I couldn’t get it to work on my blog (It may be an issue [...]
Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Business, South Africa
In my previous post I documented South Africa’s Ease of doing business rating. The A.T. Kearney Global Services Location Index (GSLI) compares 50 global offshore locations and it contains very interesting information about different offshore and nearshore locations. You can download the pdf here. Quoted from the A.T.Kearney website: Findings in the 2007 A.T. Kearney Global Services Location [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Business, South Africa
The World Bank has very interesting indicators regarding doing business in different countries. Use this interactive Google Map to slice and dice indicators like Starting a Business, Taxes, Dealing with licenses and much more. The top ten countries according to the World Bank regarding “Ease of Doing Business Rank” are: Singapore New Zealand US Hong [...]
Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
Tom Peters is always interesting and unconventional. I found his 100 ways to succeed and make money and interesting read. It’s similar to Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” . Here are some of my favorites: Number #3: Write thank you notes. Number #4: Make the difficult call NOW! Number #6: Make [...]
