The Icahn Effect
You’ve no doubt heard the news: Carl Icahn has “taken a stake” in Lawson Software (NASDAQ:LWSN). What exactly does this mean? Well, I wish I could tell you, but I sure don’t know. Except it can’t be...
View ArticleSlowing Down to Speed Up
I read an interesting article recently in Harvard Business Review: http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-acceleration-trap/ In case you haven’t noticed, the world is spinning faster–at least it often seems that...
View ArticlePiling It On: This Time It’s Apple
I was going to leave well enough alone. I’m not an Apple user, and not at all affected by the recent flap over the iPhone4 antenna problems. But then I saw this headline: Fix iPhone ‘Death Grip’ For...
View ArticleIn Whom Do You Trust?
For larger enterprise applications, you typically sign (and pay for) an annual maintenance agreement covering day-to-day support and/or updates. Or do you? Perhaps one way to look at software...
View ArticleOn Infor and the Future of Lawson
Clients have been asking: “Infor is acquiring Lawson, where do we go from here?” Remember that Infor has historically been an acquisition-based software provider, and hasn’t offered a complete...
View ArticleWhy I’m Bullish on Lawson/Infor
Six months ago, I told you to stay tuned. I admit it. I had my doubts. Frankly, I was planning a new venture, and was ready to close the door on the LawsonGuru blog, LawsonGuru Letter, and...
View ArticleFarewell, Dean
By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Dean Hager is leaving Lawson (see Key Executives Leave Lawson Software After Infor Acquisition). I don’t know Larry Dunivan or Nancy Anderson, but as for...
View ArticleInforum 2013
I just returned from Orlando, having attended Inforum 2013. Last year’s Inforum, which quickly followed the acquisition of Lawson by Infor, was really just a combination of Lawson’s annual conference...
View ArticleThe Untimely Passing of a Legend
We learned today that our dear friend, Matthew Allbee, passed away over the weekend after a long battle with cancer. The last time I saw Matt was just a couple of months ago at Inforum, and while he...
View ArticleInforum 2014
Although I didn’t attend Inforum 2014, this is the backdrop against which I watched the keynotes via streaming video and digested the executive/analyst briefings. “’Designing emotion into the product...
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