Today I was thinking of the power of custom work; namely employing the Dell model of mass customization to businesses in a lot of different areas.
You can apply it to furniture, software, websites, vacations, insurance, even grocery shopping.  Start off with a random, base product.  Then figure out all the things you could do to [...]

Just a note saying the Raymond has found a forum that you can download Windows Vista RTM (Release to market) as well as the crack for the operating system.
You can access the Vista download here at forumw.org.
The crack pack may be downloaded here, also at forumw.org.
Let me know how they work out for you. [...]

The one constant we can all bet on in life and business is change, right?
The best quote I have heard reflecting this is by Alex Lindsey, the CEO of Pixelcorps. He said, “It’s like a wave, you can either ride out to it or wait for it to come crashing in. Either way, [...]

For anyone who reads JDsBlog.com, you know that I traveled to a MSDN Conference yesterday.  On the way back from the conference, I got pretty involoved with a business topic in regards to uploading resumes onto a website.  When you think about it, you have to create value for a consumer or user.  What makes [...]

How many times do we put up with something that is broken?  Not many!
At my house.  My toaster broke.  I know, trivial..  I went out and bought a new one.
But then one of my websites went down.  Not for an extended period of time.  Just long enough to piss me off.  But what did I [...]