Small businesses have big dreams. Fair enough, there’s nothing wrong with ambition. But slavishly copying the big guys is pure folly
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/jan2003/sb20030129_6538.htm
A study by high-tech researcher Jupiter Research found that 61 percent of companies that have deployed the software for creating and managing content for the Web have gone back to manual processes for updating their sites.
The average mid-sized company could gain $5 million per year in employee productivity by improving its intranet design to the top quartile level of a cross-company intranet usability study. The return on investment? One thousand percent or more.
In this detailed report, 37signals analyzes, reviews, and rates the search engines and search results at 25 popular e-commerce sites.
First, it’s important to set aside the notion that open source databases are merely toys or teaching tools, suitable only for hobbyists. It’s true that most database management systems began life as research projects. But like their commercial cousins, the open source packages have since matured into full-fledged applications, engineered with real-world use in mind.
http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=7733/na1202d/index.html
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Having wrestled with the best way to track time and manage work at Pelago, we understand how processes should work. We built Intervals to manage chaotic work loads — and to help others do the same.
