Business Coach: Billy Beane: What MBAs Can Learn From MLB
Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane finds the best talent for the right price. It’s a technique you can use to stockpile managers.
PLANNER: Calculating Costs of a Human Capital Management System
Fill out this spreadsheet to determine whether building a system to manage your people is worth the outlay.
- BEA’s WebLogic (“Quick on the Draw”)
- IBM’s WebSphere (“Dances with Mainframes”), and
- Oracle’s Application Server (“Captive Audience”).
Be sure to check out our Dossiers on three vendors offering application servers:
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This Calculator (Tool: Will Mainframes Serve Your Future?) will help you figure out when mainframes are old school, and when they’re the best thing to host your open-source audience.
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Cobol (Common Business Oriented Language) has been around for some time. Take this quick Quiz (“Time for Cobol in Chunks?”) to see if this new-age version of Cobol is of practical use to you.
