Going for after dinner jogs. In between the two buildings, there's a set of stairs that takes you up to Signal Hill itself (like where those big white numbers on the side of the hill are). There's a nice path with a great view up there, and another set of stairs up top.
It's close to my place, and is a popular jogging/dog walking spot, there's always people around. Which is why I find it odd they choose that small, fairly busy corridor, as opposed to the huge, completely empty parking lot right in front...though maybe they think that looks too "heat"...do kids still say that? God I'm getting old
EDIT: The yoga class was back last night. That area is very entertaining. I usually go after dinner, I've been referring it to the girlfriend as my "dinner and a movie". Always get a show there
SAP sells itself as "it works off the shelf". They just don't tell you it doesn't work well off the shelf for any but the most limited of circumstances. 90% of companies that buy it have to (pay through the nose to) customize, and the other 10% didn't need SAP to begin with.
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Interesting article. The mistakes mirror every failed project.
Make a huge commitment without thinking through the consequences
Create an unrealistic timeline to perform the project
Because of time constraints have to rely on new an untested work processes /tech
Because of time constraints have to hire more inexperienced people and fail to train them
Poor quality control again due to time constraints
No one willing to alter the plan to delay the project
Interesting article. The mistakes mirror every failed project.
Make a huge commitment without thinking through the consequences
Create an unrealistic timeline to perform the project
Because of time constraints have to rely on new an untested work processes /tech
Because of time constraints have to hire more inexperienced people and fail to train them
Poor quality control again due to time constraints
No one willing to alter the plan to delay the project
Sounds like my every day life.
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it's every project ever executed in any industry. Sometimes I think the projects that are successful do so in spite of themselves and get lucky that they aren't derailed.
I really miss Target. I loved Target Canada. I think they would have been fine if they opened a few pilot stores in Ontario and slowly expanded while growing the supply chain. Buying all of Zellers in one fell swoop was their downfall.
Started chuckling when I saw Target opted to implement SAP.
So many of our vendors have tried to switch over to SAP and it's been an unmitigated disaster. In fact Nike has been working on it for I think 4 years now and their deliveries are still a mess.
Started chuckling when I saw Target opted to implement SAP.
To be fair to SAP, just like any system if your legacy data that you feed it is crap, your output data is crap. Sounds like this was certainly a part of the problem here:
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It didn’t take long for Target to figure out the underlying cause of the breakdown: The data contained within the company’s supply chain software, which governs the movement of inventory, was riddled with flaws.
I wonder if Target made any attempt to re-negotiate their leases? They had a pretty big stick and could have told the landlords "if you don't reduce our rate, we won't be profitable until 2021 and we are going to exit and leave millions of square feet and empty anchors hanging".
Almost all those locations are still empty today and there's no indication there are any Canadian retailers ready to fill up those spaces given that we are going into a downturn.
