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Giuffrè Editore (Lexis-Nexis partner)’s Update Disturbing Policy

consolleLexis-Nexis Italian partner, Giuffrè Editore, is active in both the editorial and software business. One of its tool is a java application to handle the electronic document filing to the Court’s dock.

As the screenshot shows, the OSX version of this software requires on outdated java version because Giuffrè didn’t update its code. As they write on the website: “last java versions have problem. Download from here the recommended version”.

In other words: we don’t want to fix the software you paid, so stay stick with an older java version.

So ? a lawyer wanting to continue using this software faces these alternatives:

  • downgrade the Java version installed on his computer, thus risking incompatibilities with up-to-date application and having his computer possible stability issues,
  • buy a computer (or virtualize one) “just” to use Giuffrè softwares,
  • move to another software and start using it for scratch.

Whatever the option, the customer is the losing part.

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Un-like, Un-tweet, Un-plus. The power of opting-out

How many useless like-pin-tweet-plus-whatever are you daily flooded by (and to how many are we contributing to)?

Why don’t just endorse what actually deserves to be endorsed? It would improve a better “first-sight assessment” of a content, thus saving time and reducing the garbage polluting the digital space.

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Fay, online advertising’s goof and the information overload

In this post I’ve shown what happens when the advertising process slips out of control: a brand is associated to a wrong message because of the lack of attention to every single step of a campaign.

In other times this mistake would have had dire consequences for the advertising agency… accounts fired, campaign suspended and, maybe, public apologies. But today is (in)different.

Who will ever notice – let alone, remember – the misery exploitation associated with this brand (again, unbeknownst by its management)?

Who will take appropriate actions to avoid a similar mistake in the future?

Who cares?

This is one of the consequences of the information overload: be sloppy. After a couple of hours nobody will even remember about it.

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?????

???? (dekimasu) is a Japanese chameleontic? verb whose literal meaning is “to be able”, that shapes itself into different things according to the conversation topic. So, you can use ???? as a synonym of ????(hana shimasu) when asking if somebody does speak some language, or as a substitute for ??????(shitte imasu) to ask if someone knows (how to do) something,

Above all, anyway, dekimasu is a rather interesting management concept because a single word contains the essence of a job or an assignment. ????? (are you able to…?) should be the first question to (self)ask when entering into a new venture or task. It implies defining the target, the path to follow to get there and the means to use. As much as these concepts look simple, they’re often under looked with dire consequences.

Answering the ????? question can save time, money and – sometimes – life.