Why conventional CRM requirements gathering is flawed...
The conventional wisdom has it that that CRM requirements gathering consists of assimilating lists of functional requirements and then prioritizing and ranking them. On the surface this all seems very logical, but in practical terms it doesn’t work. Since this is the approach that most organizations take, I thought I’d take a few posts to explain why this approach is fundamentally flawed, and to outline a significantly better alternative. Before I get too far into solutions I’d like to use this post to illustrate the sorts of things that happen when people adopt the ‘functionality first’ approach and it goes something like this:
Good Reasons to Use Blist
Blist is a web based tool for creating spreadsheets and databases in a very visual and non-geeky interface. You may either start with a blank canvas, import data from an existing Excel sheet or use any of the existing lists as a base. ...
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Last Saturday I attended BarCamp Africa, an event hosted at the Google Campus in Mountain View. BarCamp Africa brought people, institutions and enterprises interested in Africa - as a topic, an opportunity, or a place of action - together in one...
Read more about BarCamp Africa...Living the Dream - Salesforce, Google and SaaS
We at Appirio have lots of experience at big technology companies (SAP, webMethods, Borland) and classic enterprise software startups. We run Appirio differently from what we saw at these companies. We not only run our business using software...
Read more about Living the Dream - Salesforce, Google and SaaS...ebizQ Discussion on SOA & Cloud Computing
The eBizQ site recently hosted a discussion is based on JP Morgenthal's feature article, Differing Views on SOA & Cloud Computing, and the question, which seemed to cause a bit of disagreement between the old "gray hair" and new "newbie" schools...
Read more about ebizQ Discussion on SOA & Cloud Computing...Adaptive Path is Growing
Adaptive Path is growing! As some of you may know, AP recently opened a new branch in Austin, TX. This summer, I got the chance to work in both the San Francisco and Austin offices, and it was definitely a unique experience....
Read more about Adaptive Path is Growing...Be Quick or Be Dead
Aside from being the title of a great song from one of the greatest rock bands ever -Iron Maiden- Be Quick or Be dead is a great metaphor for today’s business environment. No matter how you look at it speed is picking up and someone will take...
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