Lessons Learned: Fall of Communism Leads to Cheap Sheds’ Success
May 21st, 2013
Citizens of Hungary were banned from owning and operating their own businesses from World War II until the communist regime fell in the early 1990s.
With no exposure to entrepreneurialism for about 50 years, one Hungarian family, the Panczels, bravely opened a convenience store in Szolnok, a regional town about 75 miles southeast of Budapest, in 1993.
Their young son Krisztian obtained invaluable experience by working for his parents in their store after school, on weekends, and holidays.
Krisztian met his wife Maria at Szent Istvan University, in Budapest, in his agricultural science classes. When they graduated in 2001, the recession had quelled their chances of work so they backpacked to Queensland in Australia, arriving with $200 …
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Lessons Learned: Fall of Communism Leads to Cheap Sheds’ Success
Dish Eyes LightSquared’s Wireless Spectrum
May 21st, 2013
Dish Network is offering $2 billion for some of LightSquared’s spectrum in a move that could help the company expand its offerings beyond pay TV. The offer would add spectrum to Dish’s growing supply of airwaves. LightSquared, the bankrupt wireless network company funded largely by billionaire Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners, would use the capital to pay off debt. Neither company has commented on the offer, which would be subject to regulatory approval.
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Dish Eyes LightSquared’s Wireless Spectrum
The 5-Step Plan for Picking the Right CRM Consultant
May 21st, 2013
Pretty much all CRM deployments need some degree of customization, the exceptions being those rare situations where businesses have very simple needs. Customizations can be as simple as the modification of a field to accommodate a local convention for addresses, or as complex as the addition of workflows that introduce social media data or specific sales and marketing behaviors unique to the business. Unless you have exceptional in-house talent, this means you’ll have to engage with a consultant, reseller or other third-party expert.
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The 5-Step Plan for Picking the Right CRM Consultant
Getting the Best Out of IT Partnerships, IBM-SAP Style
May 21st, 2013
There’s no shortage of partner initiatives at most annual IT vendor events, but that was especially apparent at SAP’s recent Sapphire NOW conference in Orlando, Fla. In large part, it’s simply the nature of the event beast. Vendors work for weeks or even months on conference-related announcements, hoping to garner the attention of energized, enthusiastic attendees — some 20,000 of them, in the case of Sapphire NOW 2013. SAP’s partnership strategy has also been increasingly aggressive and effective, driving up the stakes for all involved.
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Getting the Best Out of IT Partnerships, IBM-SAP Style
