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Archive for June, 2007

Participatory ERP

Friday, June 29th, 2007

While searching the net for some info on failed ERP implementations, I stumbled upon an excellent (sic) post in the EvolvingExcellence blog. It really points out the problems that any small organization inevitably faces during a large vendor ERP implementation. As an alternative is proposes a “primitive” participatory design method:

First get some people […]

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Askmarkets

Friday, June 8th, 2007

Caught a glimpse of the stealth startup askmarkets, which runs on algorithms developed by fellow NTUA alumni and friend George Tziralis. Even in an alpha state it seems impressive, and sounds like the perfect way to take the empirical experiments made by the likes of Taleb a step further: social.

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1st and 2nd Life mix-up

Monday, June 4th, 2007

The apparent easiness by which people divulge their personal information on the web is causing some serious problems aside from job hunting. According to Techcrunch the CEO of web 2.0 company Plazes was put into a very awkward position by his own product, when he made up an excuse that wasn’t backed up by his […]

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