SEC Regulating Information Arbitrage
The New York Times today points out the the SEC’s case against Goldman Sachs for betting against the securities they sold against the collapse of the housing market wasn’t about the security, but the fact that it was bet against….
Front-end development with Rails, Visual Studio 2010 – make all #001
In this inaugural episode, I talk with the developers next door to RedMonk Austin about their use of Ruby on Rails as a front-end layer. We spend a lot of time discussing UI toolkit choices and customizing, JavaScript and Ajax coding, using rails as sort of glue-layer to their UI, and heavy GUI development. Additionally, we talk about Pivot and Visual Studio 2010.
Thinking Through the Procurement Implications of a Rising RMB
In the past couple of weeks, there’s been an abrupt turn of events around the RMB, (from US pressure, and Chinese push-back) to a state where China appears ready to let the RMB rise. A recent Financial Times article shares some of the global currency and monetary implications that an appreciating RMB may bring. But [...]
The Googlization of Business
Recently Google announced they would be using website speed more heavily as a “signal” in their ranking methodology. “Signal” is just a nice way of saying “important variable”, but it also indicates how Google thinks about the world. They believe that there are a certain set of things that “good” websites (and thus “good” online [...]
Revolutions in Consumer Buying Behaviors
Groupon is getting a lot of attention for their latest round of funding, which values the company “above $1 billion”. Groupon features a daily deal with a huge discount on a wide range of things–from spas to skydiving–in dozens of U.S. cities, including Chicago, Boston, New York and San Francisco, for large groups of potential [...]
NetSuite, The Forgotten Man
Last week I took advantage of the opportunity to visit with NetSuite during their annual partner conference held here in San Francisco. I wasn’t expecting anything earth shattering, if only because this company has been around for a long time now, 12 years to be exact and probably as well known for it’s largest shareholder, [...]
Enterprise IT: Inside an SAP customer
The global head of Mead Johnson’s PMO shares his thoughts on SAP, system integrators, SaaS, and much more, in an exciting podcast.
More Of Naomi’s “Killer” Scenarios: KSAOC-Centric Strategic HRM
Figure 1: KSAOC-Centric, Strategic HRM One of the great debates in HR circles is over what is strategic and what is merely administrative with respect to human resource management (HRM) processes. That which is strategic, often referred to as talent management, is considered worthy of executive attention, academic research, attendance at expensive conferences, and the writing [...]
