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		<title>IP Video Phones are Here!  Now what?</title>
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Can somebody please tell me why I should want an IP video phone on my desk?  Or even in my home?I recently met a very nice young woman who represents a company called ACN.  She very much wants to show me ACN’s video phone product, and I would like to see it, more out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/08/ip-video-phones-are-here-now-what/</link>
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		<title>Can Open Source achieve meaningful market penetration?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me state for the record that I applaud the Open Source Movement (OSM).  The existence of independently developed competing software solutions to business needs helps to motivate all the players, Microsoft included, to innovate continuously and to keep prices down.  In turn, competing software brings its own innovations and product designs to the marketplace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/26/can-open-source-achieve-meaningful-market-penetration/</link>
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		<title>How many layers of security are effective?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not usually my intention to introduce non-BI related material to this blog, but this is far too important to pass up.  There is an object lesson.
By now, anyone not living in a cave knows that investigators from the GAO smuggled detonators and liquid explosives aboard planes at nineteen TSA screening locations.  The story on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/15/how-many-layers-of-security-are-effective/</link>
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		<title>Proof of Concept</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this essay, Commentary: Proof of Concept,  by Barney Finucane in Nigel Pendse’s OLAP Report.  While I fully agree with Finucane, it’s no easy matter to get vendors to agree to a Proof of Concept test, as I described in this space a few months ago.  I referred to this as a matter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/08/proof-of-concept/</link>
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		<title>Inflation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  You have to wonder what the Fed is thinking about.  Housing is in a slump; consumers are reducing their spending right at the outset of the holiday season; job creation is down.  But because the price of oil has been pushed up to new record levels, the Fed is raising the inflation alarms.
  Is it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/05/inflation/</link>
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		<title>Minority Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched the movie “Minority Report” last night for the first time (which goes to show, I suppose, my level of cultural currency), and I have to say I found it pretty scary.  But probably not in the way most people would.  The notion of predicting and preempting crime, a pretty much conventional Orwellian device, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/15/minority-report/</link>
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		<title>Cost of Sales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[     Early in my consulting career I worked for a DSS/OLAP software vendor that provided consulting services to promote the sale of the software.  Consultants like myself were involved to at least some degree in selling activities that included examining the customer&#8217;s business, making preliminary recommendations, answering questions and RFPs, and giving customized demonstrations.  That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/07/cost-of-sales/</link>
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		<title>Software as a Service and the Personal Computer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, I looked at the amount of disk storage on the computer I was using, and the amount of RAM, and the size of the word processing program it was running at the time, and I thought: this is so out of line!  How much of that program did I actually use at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/28/software-as-a-service-and-the-personal-computer/</link>
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		<title>A BI Confluence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a new book the other day, The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence, by Steve Williams and Nancy Williams (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers), and I have to say I’m barely into it and I’m impressed.  The authors are not saying anything I didn’t already know, but their presentation is compelling, and will provide much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/04/a-bi-confluence/</link>
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		<title>Outsourcing Business Intelligence Initiatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My business is providing consulting services to small and medium-sized enterprises to develop business intelligence systems.  It is a simple fact that this stuff is not rocket science.  The expertise that I and my associates have in this field can be obtained by any of our peers within the clients we seek to serve.  Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worcestergroupinc.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/14/outsourcing-business-intelligence-initiatives/</link>
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