Expert - shcmexpert. So what if the hoi polloi doesn't know how to code so long as they get to something's with their tech that they find useful or amusing? That is itself helps sell more marginally useful tech and crowd fund even more dubious ideas. Capataism baby.
I worked on DDA at BofA at Market and Van Ness in '69. Data center is still there and they're still running DDA. Want to stay in business, never run out of lipstick.
Ellie Arroway: The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?
Wire wrap backplanes and osciliscopes the size of a dog house.
2314 disk drives, 9 drawers so you could keep 8 online most of the time. Before voice coil motors, hydraulics moved the heads. There wasn't really a - seek and leak - instruction, it just seemed that way.
Worked with a team at American President Lines back in the seventies that built the bar code tracking system for containers. Primitive tech, paper tape, punch cards and loads of green bar. Lots of trouble getting an optical scanner to interface with the 360/50 mainframe in the data center. But the biggest personal risk was to avoid letting the stevedores know what we were up to when visiting the wharves.
This is effectively an instruction prefetch and branch prediction scheme. How does every modern multi-core processor not infringe on this patient or have (all) other manufactures licensed it from UofWis? Didn't they review the patents that Samsung had licensed for the ARM processors that preceded the A4 and its successors?
Not so much, if you are a corporation. The terrorists win. Not a shot fired. Behavior is changed, events are cancelled, angst pervades. Not with a gun or a bomb, but with a torrent this battle was won. Who'd a thunk? Outlook spools as shock and awe. OTH, maybe this better? No actual physical harm ITRW.
Still for those corporate execs, light, heat and fallout and the same instinct to duck under their desk. If you can disrupt the infotainment ecosphere, can you cause wide spread mayhem in the real world? Perhaps understandable for MegaPlex execs after Colorado. But for Sony, hard to be sympathetic to serial incompetence. Whatever David Bois is charging them, it isn't enough.
Scour listings for jobs listed by head hunters. Send them his name. Build him up. I've done this a couple times to get rid of bosses and peers that were a pain in the ass. It used to be easier before the job market went to hell, but it might still work.
Implementing ERP is the hard part. Now leverage that investment. Build in house expertise around oracle web / cloud development tools and data analysis tools to build the dashboards, reports and tools that your buisiness units need. These will be extensible and upgradable with future versions of erp suite. Data extracts and bespoke adjunct systems will inevitable become a pain to maintain and seldom serve the business well in the long run.
Assuming you've gone to the effort to implement a full suite including financials ( gl, ar, ap), order entry, mrp, maybe crm or logistics, you now have sound data for decisions that will make the business more efficient, productive, and profitable. Oracle tools and data appliance are relatively cheap compared to your overall investment and can deliver real benefits to the business much more quickly that bespoke systems.
Speaking as a former oracle consulting executive, I have seen many firms drag along old home grown systems or build new "solutions" around open source s/w on commodity h/w because it seems cheaper, but over time these become an end in themselves rather than a driver of business improvement. The mission of IT should be to capitalize on the investment made implementing the core systems to help the business become more profitable. In short, your CIO has it right.
Yeah, but..... I once had a new EVP that would never respond until a problem was widely recognized by his peers. Anything that smacked of initiative from his "underlings" was seen as threatening. As a VP with some "juice" in the executive suite, I sometime simply implemented improvements without his say so. Sometimes he would later receive cudos from the CEO or his peers for the positive impact of whatever I had done. The first couple times he fumbled his reaction and looked "out of touch" and was mighty pissed at me. But, fairly quickly, he learned it was better for his rep to accept approbations even when unsure why. We had a fairly productive couple years until the company was acquired by yet another suitor, but never really got along, probably because I used to sort of taunt him with emails captioned "Here's a solution, do you have a problem to match?".
I have given iPads to my 85+ year old in-laws with excellent results.
My father in law used an iPad 2 with 3G (rural no broadband, but decent "bars") for about a year before he passed. Tried FaceTime but he was too deaf. But Email, iMessage, lots of pics of family in photos and lite web surfing worked fine. Nary and issue after setup.
My mother in law is fairly adept, uses apple & her old aol email accts on mail app. Web surfing and shopping on Amazon. Lots of FaceTime with family now spread all around the world. Set up world clock so she could keep track of local time for family in Europe and Asia. Avid reader on Kindle App that I keep filled with titles she likes. Lots of family (especially great grand baby pics and videos) get emailed and she knows how to click to store in photos. She now uses Notes to type simple letters and print on wireless printer. Loaded a couple slot machine apps over Thanksgiving visit.
Best thing, easy to support her. FaceTime while I walk her through resolution of issues and maybe only twice needed her to screen print and email me error screens. Anyway been doing this for a couple years and its WAY better than when used to have to to help her with her old AOL Win98 desktop POS.
The NY Times, WashPost, BBC, Deutche Welle, Straits Times, South China Morning Post, Sydney Morning Herald and I'm only 1/2 was thru my RSS feeds. Now Starbucks, flying my morning latte through my kitchen window, that would be news!
Review the available systems, find out how the erp system you like best works, what are the key data schema and business process flows, and can you adopt them? That is the only way to implement any system, bog standard. This will induce massive change in your organization. But you will adapt and survive, or not. Otherwise you will have to customize the system extensively in a process fraught with peril and that will cost like a mother and could fail too.
My girlfriend was moved from another group into Cambridge Systems when UCCEL bought them and SKK to keep track of engineering documentation, publications and whatnot through the transition. Six months later CA bought UCCEL and laid off everyone over their target salary range, which included her and lotsa senior engineers. Two weeks later she was back as a contractor at +100% pay bump because they couldn't find their pooper with their fingers. Took about 6 months to transition it to Long Island. But since CA still sells and supports ACF2 they must have retained enough to make a go of it.
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How else do you explain the current presidential election cycle?
Expert - shcmexpert. So what if the hoi polloi doesn't know how to code so long as they get to something's with their tech that they find useful or amusing? That is itself helps sell more marginally useful tech and crowd fund even more dubious ideas. Capataism baby.
We has met the enemy and he is us. Walt Kelly - Pogo
I worked on DDA at BofA at Market and Van Ness in '69. Data center is still there and they're still running DDA. Want to stay in business, never run out of lipstick.
Ellie Arroway: The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?
Wire wrap backplanes and osciliscopes the size of a dog house. 2314 disk drives, 9 drawers so you could keep 8 online most of the time. Before voice coil motors, hydraulics moved the heads. There wasn't really a - seek and leak - instruction, it just seemed that way.
They put 11 sats into orbit. With live video at that. Outstanding.
I used to run lunar lander on a pdp8 with 4K and a decwriter. It kept me amused pulling the graveyard shift.
Worked with a team at American President Lines back in the seventies that built the bar code tracking system for containers. Primitive tech, paper tape, punch cards and loads of green bar. Lots of trouble getting an optical scanner to interface with the 360/50 mainframe in the data center. But the biggest personal risk was to avoid letting the stevedores know what we were up to when visiting the wharves.
This is effectively an instruction prefetch and branch prediction scheme. How does every modern multi-core processor not infringe on this patient or have (all) other manufactures licensed it from UofWis? Didn't they review the patents that Samsung had licensed for the ARM processors that preceded the A4 and its successors?
Not so much, if you are a corporation. The terrorists win. Not a shot fired. Behavior is changed, events are cancelled, angst pervades. Not with a gun or a bomb, but with a torrent this battle was won. Who'd a thunk? Outlook spools as shock and awe. OTH, maybe this better? No actual physical harm ITRW. Still for those corporate execs, light, heat and fallout and the same instinct to duck under their desk. If you can disrupt the infotainment ecosphere, can you cause wide spread mayhem in the real world? Perhaps understandable for MegaPlex execs after Colorado. But for Sony, hard to be sympathetic to serial incompetence. Whatever David Bois is charging them, it isn't enough.
As every politician lies endlessly, this will eventually free up a lot of bandwidth for downloading porn.
Scour listings for jobs listed by head hunters. Send them his name. Build him up. I've done this a couple times to get rid of bosses and peers that were a pain in the ass. It used to be easier before the job market went to hell, but it might still work.
Implementing ERP is the hard part. Now leverage that investment. Build in house expertise around oracle web / cloud development tools and data analysis tools to build the dashboards, reports and tools that your buisiness units need. These will be extensible and upgradable with future versions of erp suite. Data extracts and bespoke adjunct systems will inevitable become a pain to maintain and seldom serve the business well in the long run. Assuming you've gone to the effort to implement a full suite including financials ( gl, ar, ap), order entry, mrp, maybe crm or logistics, you now have sound data for decisions that will make the business more efficient, productive, and profitable. Oracle tools and data appliance are relatively cheap compared to your overall investment and can deliver real benefits to the business much more quickly that bespoke systems. Speaking as a former oracle consulting executive, I have seen many firms drag along old home grown systems or build new "solutions" around open source s/w on commodity h/w because it seems cheaper, but over time these become an end in themselves rather than a driver of business improvement. The mission of IT should be to capitalize on the investment made implementing the core systems to help the business become more profitable. In short, your CIO has it right.
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Human nature being what it is.... If you don't want someone else to see it, don't send it. Everybody always lies. Everybody always spies.
Yeah, but..... I once had a new EVP that would never respond until a problem was widely recognized by his peers. Anything that smacked of initiative from his "underlings" was seen as threatening. As a VP with some "juice" in the executive suite, I sometime simply implemented improvements without his say so. Sometimes he would later receive cudos from the CEO or his peers for the positive impact of whatever I had done. The first couple times he fumbled his reaction and looked "out of touch" and was mighty pissed at me. But, fairly quickly, he learned it was better for his rep to accept approbations even when unsure why. We had a fairly productive couple years until the company was acquired by yet another suitor, but never really got along, probably because I used to sort of taunt him with emails captioned "Here's a solution, do you have a problem to match?".
As a gaijin I had he same problem with kanji. Do you spell that with a house or a tree?
I have given iPads to my 85+ year old in-laws with excellent results. My father in law used an iPad 2 with 3G (rural no broadband, but decent "bars") for about a year before he passed. Tried FaceTime but he was too deaf. But Email, iMessage, lots of pics of family in photos and lite web surfing worked fine. Nary and issue after setup. My mother in law is fairly adept, uses apple & her old aol email accts on mail app. Web surfing and shopping on Amazon. Lots of FaceTime with family now spread all around the world. Set up world clock so she could keep track of local time for family in Europe and Asia. Avid reader on Kindle App that I keep filled with titles she likes. Lots of family (especially great grand baby pics and videos) get emailed and she knows how to click to store in photos. She now uses Notes to type simple letters and print on wireless printer. Loaded a couple slot machine apps over Thanksgiving visit. Best thing, easy to support her. FaceTime while I walk her through resolution of issues and maybe only twice needed her to screen print and email me error screens. Anyway been doing this for a couple years and its WAY better than when used to have to to help her with her old AOL Win98 desktop POS.
That's so low tech! M
The NY Times, WashPost, BBC, Deutche Welle, Straits Times, South China Morning Post, Sydney Morning Herald and I'm only 1/2 was thru my RSS feeds. Now Starbucks, flying my morning latte through my kitchen window, that would be news!
Where is my flying car?
And don't wear your Star trek pajamas to bed
Review the available systems, find out how the erp system you like best works, what are the key data schema and business process flows, and can you adopt them? That is the only way to implement any system, bog standard. This will induce massive change in your organization. But you will adapt and survive, or not. Otherwise you will have to customize the system extensively in a process fraught with peril and that will cost like a mother and could fail too.
My girlfriend was moved from another group into Cambridge Systems when UCCEL bought them and SKK to keep track of engineering documentation, publications and whatnot through the transition. Six months later CA bought UCCEL and laid off everyone over their target salary range, which included her and lotsa senior engineers. Two weeks later she was back as a contractor at +100% pay bump because they couldn't find their pooper with their fingers. Took about 6 months to transition it to Long Island. But since CA still sells and supports ACF2 they must have retained enough to make a go of it.