Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Future-Proof Your Education on Prezi. The Case Against the Business Case. A little while back I was presenting the concepts and structure of my MBA course to a diverse group of my HBS colleagues. Pretty early on one of the professors in the Finance area asked me the question I was most dreading and least prepared for: "Andy, what do you teach students about conducting a financial analysis of proposed IT investment?
How do you build a business case for IT? " I was about to launch into a long-winded and poorly argued answer, but Bob Kaplan spoke up first. "You can’t," he said. Kaplan is responsible for both activity-based costing and the Balanced Scorecard, so he speaks with no small authority on matters of costs and benefits. After the seminar he gave me a copy of Strategy Maps, which he wrote with David Norton.
The subtitle of the book is "Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes. " The authors make their point forcefully and early in the book. "None of these intangible assets has value that can be measured separately or independently. Of course not. Articles : WindowFX 4: Inactive Windows. In the last article we talked about the Window Animations in WindowFX 4. The topic for today is going to be Inactive Windows where WindowFX 4 can apply some really cool and useful effects to the windows. Get WindowFX 4 You will need WindowFX 4 to get started, so if you don’t have it already head over to the website and grab the trial version.
The full version of WindowFX 4 can be purchased for just $9.95 and it is also part of the Object Desktop suite where you get a bunch of cool desktop apps for just one low price. Inactive Windows The features and effects we are talking about in this guide can be found in the Inactive Windows tab in WindowFX 4. Darken Inactive Windows. Automatically minimize inactive windows.
Make inactive windows transparent. Here is a video example of the effects.