The ERP Lifestyle Consultant

Is it possible that we’ll see Microsoft sell out and exit the ERP accounting software business altogether? There are a number of signals, most recently today’s Bloomberg article that quotes Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell as saying the company is on a permanent diet and could ship some customer support positions to countries with lower personnel costs.

Of course that statement and one stinky quarter alone is not enough to draw a conclusion that the company’s Microsoft Dynamics, Navision and Axapta are on the chopping blocks.

A quarterly earnings report where the analyst revenue estimates were missed by over $1 billion is nothing to sneeze at. And judging from this article online in Bloomberg – the company expects to be making permanent changes that have in the past included cutting non-essential divisions. So the question is whether the ERP division could be on the blocks? Bloomberg Read the rest of this entry »

If I’d taken all the terrible business advice  I’ve been given over the years I would have been out of business   10 years ago.

Well meaning consultants have this habit of giving advice about things they sometimes know nothing about. If you’re foolish enough to follow it you may end up like they  do – out of business, unemployed or working as an employee.

Here are my five favorite lies  consultants have tried to lay on me over the years Read the rest of this entry »