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Google’s Trojan Horse into the Enterprise?

August 7, 2008

On the heels of Salesforce.com partnering with Google Enterprise to integrate Google Apps into Salesforce.com, Google has now done an equally extensive partnership and integration with SuccessFactors around embedding Google Apps and other apps into the HCM SaaS applications of SuccessFactors. Google’s enterprise playbook seems like it is, or should be, clear … continue to [...]

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Forstmann’s view on the credit crisis

July 7, 2008

An interesting and very frightening assessment by Ted Forstmann on the state of the credit crisis (WSJ – Subscription required) – his assessment, we’re in the “second inning.” His view may be extreme, and I do want to compare it with Soros’ view in his latest book, but there must be some to a fair [...]

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Disney / Pixar – lessons in cultural integration

June 2, 2008

After being on the buy and sell side of many merger & acquisition transactions, one thing that is clear is that cultural integration is one of the toughest aspects of bringing two companies together following a transaction. It is the largely unwritten reason for why many (and some will say most) mergers & acquisitions fail. [...]

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