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Thoughts on pricing – what is a block? June 25, 2015. We’ve been spending some time thinking about how we price the Harvest Plan service, and the discussion usually comes down to a relationship to what we call, here in Australia at least, a block . What does that mean? What is a block? How do we define it so we. May 26, 2015. Harvest-plan: how we predict (pt2). November 5, 2014. Harvest-plan: how we predict. November 4, 2014. The prediction strategy we use depends what data we already have about the bloc...
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Is an Australian Company based in Adelaide and Sydney. Thoughtpool is an industrial data and software pool specialising in providing Business scientific intelligence. It provides the scientific community with access to quality controlled industrial data from the Pool to feed their models, results of which are fed back into the Pool. This is a convenient means to meet a user base for software that would otherwise be difficult to explain and/or market. ABN 60 144 703 284. Phone: 61 8 81214289. Click to pri...
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Interesting stuff from August 8 to May 13 - achurch & associates
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Interesting stuff from August 8 to May 13. May 13, 2014. After too long a break, we return with the periodic roundup:. Bringing order to complexity. Why Meetings Are Often Ineffective. 8211; Meetings have (quite rightly) garnered a bad reputation over time, mainly because they are used for the wrong reasons most of the time. Have you ever wondered why we often only schedule interruptions to our work, not the work itself? Business Models in Business Architecture. A Corporate Coup in Disguise Alternet.
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a helicopter view of enterprise architecture - achurch & associates
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A helicopter view of enterprise architecture. October 10, 2012. Over the last couple of years, I’ve read a number of posts by Nick Malik around his Enterprise Business Motivation Model. I’ve also had a look at the Osterwalder and Pigneur Business Model Generation. Effort. Nick tried to reconcile Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas with the EBMM with this post. And raised some interesting architectural points. This, and a twitter conversation. Note too that enterprise doesn’t imply a minimum size (w...
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Collaborative planning | thoughtpool
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When CSIRO started the research that has resulted in the maturation modeling that underpins the Harvest-Plan. Service, one of the driving motivations was to foster what they called an “Adaptive Supply Network”, which in SMART Conference presentation. PDF) they defined as. Of information – the collaboration element. Part of our vision is to facilitate the sharing of the harvest plan with other interested parties such as harvesters, transport operators and contract processors, and this is a key f...Of cour...
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Thoughts on pricing - what is a “block”? | thoughtpool
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Thoughts on pricing – what is a block? June 25, 2015. We’ve been spending some time thinking about how we price the Harvest Plan service, and the discussion usually comes down to a relationship to what we call, here in Australia at least, a block . What does that mean? What is a block? How do we define it so we can use it sensibly in price-setting? Some things are reasonably clear:. A block is a parcel of land. Usually bounded by a fence or wall; some physical boundary. Other things are not so clear:.
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business capability model - achurch & associates
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Simply put, a business capability model is a functional breakdown of what a business does, usually going from quite coarse definitions of high-level business functions (think Product Management ) to a component function at a more detailed level (e.g. Detailed Design ). How far down do you go? Why is it useful? Some other useful definitions and descriptions can be found at these links:. Http:/ fragiletoagile.com.au/business-capability-model. Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). The opinions, ...
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Interesting stuff from May 26th through August 22nd - achurch & associates
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Interesting stuff from May 26th through August 22nd. August 26, 2014. The periodic round up:. The secret to creativity, intelligence and scientific thinking: Being able to make connections – The Buffer Blog. Network v. node. America’s Economy Is Officially Inside-Out. 8211; But when growth rises and living standards fall? Hierarchies were a solution to a communications problem. Entrepreneurs or the state: Innovation comes from public investment. How politics makes us stupid. 8211; This is why more facts ...
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Progress Middleware Products land at Aurea - achurch & associates
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Progress Middleware Products land at Aurea. July 10, 2013. A brief follow-up to my previous. About Progress Software’s divestment of its middleware products The Sonic (SOA), Savvion (BPM), Actional and DataXtend products have been packaged up as Aurea. By Progress alumni Hub Vandervoort and MA Ketabchi. Australian representation is via Adaptris. Who operate out of Sydney (you can check the Adaptris Contact. Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
