Category: Strategic Management
Scalable web-based applications has been getting a lot of air-play on social networks like Twitter lately, mostly because Twitter has been overcome by scability issues and the service unreliable. Having an unreliable internet service is embarassing and unacceptable. There is no better way to kill your brand image than to have your viral social media strategy fall flat on its face in front of the whole "instant on" world.
I recently rolled off a project where I used the Scrum version of agile development methodologies for a government client. The irony was that the program office hated it, the security auditors hated it, and the government client loved it. Why? We got stuff done. The underlying principles for getting mission capabilities implemented rapidly were:
Becky McCray at SmallBizSurvival.com proposed keeping marketing plans simple and gives us a nice crash course in the essentials. Having spent months formulating several small business plans, I realize how important it is to jsut get the business moving forward. I'm not the only one that has started questioning the value of deep business planning in early stage development of busineses.
webERP is a class of Open Source (OSS) Enterprise Resource Planning and Accounting systems for the LAMP platform. I just now trying this one out using the VMWare virtual appliance model. I'm not sure how webERP compares to more mature projects such as Compiere and Adempiere.
SQLFusion seems to be attempting to push the same business model that I was trying to push with BiZeServ. They are pushing managed opensource (OSS) appliances for the SMB market. Their tool, Open Source Fusion, screens, selects and supports Open Source software which is the most reliable and offers all the right answers to your business needs.
