This is more like a long Tweet than a short blog entry.
Personal issues aside Mark Hurd was a brilliant CEO for HP and he will be
remembered as one of the greatest CEOs HP ever had. Like the rest of the
world, we were curious and watched him from the beginning. I knew he was off
to a brilliant start when - within days of getting the job - he put together
an internal group of PhD economists specialized in game theory who developed
a system that saved HP billions of dollars in purchases.
Wikipedia defines game theory as "attempts to mathematically capture behavior
in strategic situations, or games, in which an individual's success in making
choices depends on the choices of others."
Hurd got up early every morning watching Armonk like a hawk.
Steve Mills via satellite with Jonathan Schwartz during the opening keynote
of JavaOne. (Photo copyright: Fuat Kircaali - Ulitzer... (more)
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
To the President of Syria, Mr. and Mrs. Bashar al-Assad
Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad:
At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American
citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey,
and taken to Syria.
I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be coming back
to the United States nor will she allow Sofia to return home.
Sofia has been diagnosed with a severe medical condition that requires
immediate treatment in the United States. It was schedul... (more)
Between 1991 and 1994 I worked for the French company Rhône-Poulenc in its
U.S. headquarters in Cranbury, New Jersey. Rhône-Poulenc is the biggest
French company in the world and is owned by the French government.
During those three years I designed, coded and delivered a state-of-the-art
salesforce automation system for the company, with a support team of five. We
spent roughly $2 million on hardware but the company saved an estimated $11
million in outside consulting fees. The best bid for the job would take
roughly five years to complete and would have been inferior to what we ... (more)
A column written on Wednesday by Ersu Ablak in the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet
refers to IDC's annual predictions as they relate to Turkish economy.
"According to a recent study from IDC the Turkish enterprise application
software, or EAS, market has slowed significantly as a result of the global
economic crisis. The EAS market grew 2.6 percent year-on-year in 2008 to
reach $89.19 million, as compared to 21.8 percent growth in the previous
year."
"In the short-term, IDC expects the Turkish EAS market to contract, with
limited new EAS investments and the possible delay or cancellat... (more)
When I saw David Skok's name on a recent Ulitzer author's page I was
pleasantly surprised. David has been one of the key figures in the technology
space for the past two decades, in particular with his venture capital
activities. Throughout his long career, he successfully launched a number of
companies. He has been a general partner at Matrix Partners since 2001.
Last time I mentioned his name in one of my blog entries was here in 2004.
I had an email exchange with David in October 2007 when we started
architecting our revolutionary Ulitzer new media platform.
David introduced m... (more)
Fuat Kircaali is the founder and chairman of SYS-CON Media, Cloud Expo, Inc. and Ulitzer, Inc.
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