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  • ERP Selection Survival Kit
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    ERP Selection Survival Kit

    ByJoseph Paris December 2, 2015February 18, 2026

    Who serves who?  Does Technology serve the people – or do the people serve technology? I started my business during the “Golden Age of Technology” back in 1985.  This was a time when the power of computing was being brought to the individual level; a time of personal computers (starting with the Apple-II and IBM-PC)…

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    ERP Optimization for Lean Excellence

    ByXONITEK February 26, 2013January 6, 2020

    Companies today must do business in a fiercely competitive global environment. In order to be a significant player in this arena, organizations must employ new technologies and techniques at a velocity that may challenge the very fiber of a company. They will be required to establish seamless integration from their customers, internally into manufacturing and…

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    Setting the Course for Recovery

    ByXONITEK October 8, 2011December 30, 2020

    Accepting the recession landscape has been extraordinarily painful.  The recovery journey will have challenges that must be embraced to create a sustainable business in the new, post recession landscape. How do we establish new operational excellence framework in this unsettled landscape?

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  • Convenient Half-Truths with which Everyone Chooses to Live
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    Convenient Half-Truths with which Everyone Chooses to Live

    ByJoseph Paris May 5, 2011March 30, 2026

    Several years ago I had an awakening.  I came to the realization that technology, by and large, did not live-up to its promises and that this gap between promises and reality was ever widening.  This was (and is) especially true of business information systems – most usually referred to as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

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  • First Impressions Are Important
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    First Impressions Are Important

    ByJoseph Paris March 13, 2010February 18, 2026

    As is my habit, I occasionally “google” my name (with XONITEK, so that I don’t get the Joseph Paris that is into hair) to see what might be out there. I get the expected links to the various articles I have written or events in which I have taken part, but occasionally I get surprised.

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  • “Cloud Telephony” – Nomads at Last
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    “Cloud Telephony” – Nomads at Last

    ByJoseph Paris October 19, 2009February 18, 2026

    The New Nomadism Apr 10th 2008, From The Economist print edition At the Nomad Café in Oakland, California, Tia Katrina Canlas, a law student at the nearby university in Berkeley, places her double Americano next to her mobile phone and iPod, opens her MacBook laptop computer and logs on to the café’s wireless internet connection to study for her…

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