The ABC’s of Performance Improvement Solutions ROI Calculations. TCO, TVO, and PMO. Got it? Good!
03/13/2012 at 6:21 amIn my previous posts, I wrote about how to calculate TCO , TVO and my love of the cartoon Penguins of Madagascar. Today, I am going to focus on one of my nemesis, instead of my loves. Project Management. Oh how you haunt me! The devil is in the details, and I am so not…
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It Costs How Much? Or Why You Shouldn’t Just Use Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) For Performance Improvement Solutions or Shoes…
03/06/2012 at 6:57 amRecently, I wrote about the importance of performance metrics and how we manage what we measure. Today, I want to get more serious about metrics and discuss in my opinion the most important metric to utilize when buying software or shoes – TVO. No, wait, it’s not what you think. It’s not a typo, this…
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“This Code is like Soduko, but with Fractions!” Or Seven Factors to Consider When Calculating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Performance Improvement ERP, CRM or BI Solutions…
02/28/2012 at 6:54 amThe quote in this title is from my favorite television show, “The Penguins of Madagascar”. With a seven year old in the house we watch a lot of cartoons (although, often times I can be found alone watching Penguins. It’s just so darn funny.) Sometimes calculating the total cost of ownership of software investments can…
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Concerned about Driving Performance Improvement? Break your Manual Spreadsheet Addiction with ERP and Business Intelligence (BI)! Ch…ch…changes.
02/23/2012 at 2:00 amWe have made it to step 5 of our plan to breaking my husband’s manual spreadsheet addiction to manual spreadsheet. If you missed the beginning where I admitted to the challenges this heart wrenching addiction has caused, then start at the beginning . Our goal was to break his habit to better manage our finances….
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SaaS or On-Premise? Is Moving Applications Into the Cloud Really an “All-or-Nothing” Approach?
02/14/2012 at 12:57 pmI read an interesting post recently on the Software Advice site regarding on-premise software deployments in an increasingly “cloud-y” world. The article entitled “The Cloud and Why Installed Software Isn’t Going Away” presented reasons from two perspectives: why software vendors will continue to invest in developing installed software, and why businesses will continue to buy…
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Concerned about Driving Performance Improvement? Break your Manual Spreadsheet Addiction with ERP and Business Intelligence (BI)! Time to Research…
02/14/2012 at 7:05 amA few weeks ago I shared a shocking personal revelation —I am married to an accountant who is addicted to spreadsheets. I than shared the 12 steps (really 5) that we outlined to help overcome this powerful addiction that was affecting how we manage our finances. Last week I outlined step 3 which focused on…
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Concerned about Driving Performance Improvement? Break your Manual Spreadsheet Addiction with ERP and Business Intelligence (BI)! KPI This.
02/07/2012 at 7:19 amIt seems fitting that the third blog post in my series of stopping the madness of spreadsheet addiction should focus on the third agreed upon step in our 12-step program (really 5 steps) . As I admitted in the first post of this series , my husband is an accountant, who is addicted to using…
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