Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Leadership
[Note: ok I couldn’t do the real live blogging thing. The WiFi connection wasn’t strong enough, sorry…]
Andy Stanley started off with a confession - I’m nervous talking @ Catalyst. He said, “We are like peers. You guys are like the leaders. What am I going to talk about next year?”
Then he started his talk on […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Business, Leadership
I’ll be attending the Catalyst 2007 conference at the Arena in Gwinnett County, just North of Atlanta, Oct 4-5, 2007. This conference usually draws over 10,000 people and is aimed at sharing leadership insights with young, upcoming leaders. It’s a great event with an impressive list of speakers including:
John C. Maxwell - author of […]
Posted on September 27th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship, Green Energy, Leadership, South Africa, Technology
Even though Lyndon Rive is the architect and builder of a successful IT company and now serves as CEO of a growing solar power operation, the most interesting thing about this 30-year-old South African may be that he plays mid-mid position on the (and I’m not making this up) U.S. Men’s Underwater Hockey Team. The […]
Posted on September 24th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, SAP, Saas, Technology
My plan was to report in depth on SAP’s Business ByDesign product, however I decided to rather point you to a number of well crafted blogs summarizing the launch.
My friend Tom Otter provides an insider’s view.
Bob Warfield writes a great blogs on all things SaaS, and Web 2.0. His BbD summary is very good.
Jeff Nolan […]
Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, SAP, Saas, Technology
SAP officially launched A1S today and it’s called: SAP Business ByDesign. It will cost $149 per user per month. A quick initial review of SAP BBD looks a lot like current self service scenarios and webdynpro transactions. I will do a more detailed review soon.
Posted on September 14th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, South Africa, Technology
Mark Shuttleworth is a young, South African multi-millionaire who places himself in the category of people who are both privileged and lucky and want to do something positive with their good fortune. His Ubuntu Project, HBD enterprise, and the Shuttleworth Foundation all serve as reflections of that thought.
Born in Welkom, South Africa in 1973, Shuttleworth […]
Posted on September 10th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, HCM, Leadership
Published in the mid-1950’s — Parkinson’s laws are still very relevant today.
PARKINSON’S LAW: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its […]
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship, Green Energy, South Africa
I’m finally getting round to blogging about successful South African businesspeople.
At 36 and with a net worth of over $300 million, Elon Musk is one of America’s richest people under the age of 40. After two extremely successful ventures in the dot-com world, he is now focusing on space exploration and earth-friendly technology. Musk was […]
Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Business, Saas, Technology
Amazon and Google are launching some amazing services these days. Amazon’s services include: Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3) and now Flexible Payments Service. These services may be accessed via APIs (web services) and are used by developers to introduce new products and services. Amazon charges a small fee for […]
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?
