Monthly Archives: May 2011

Dear Stan, I’ve been an amateur observer of human behavior during my two-decade stint in the world of corporations. I’ve noticed that there’s always some type of turf war going on between various specialty functions.

I plopped down in front of Brenda’s desk and asked, “Have you managed to keep things together in my absence?”

“Cloud computing” is the latest term for SaaS (“Software as a Service”), which was a later term for ASP (“Application Service Provider”). Classic re-branding to distance the current version of something from its old-fashioned ancestry.

The sixth annual Corporate Directors Forum just completed last week, one of the most in-depth and intimate conferences of its type in the country. No more than about 250 people can attend the conference, held at the University of San … Continue reading →