
Subscription Time at The Financial Times
Zuora, the subscription billing and payments company and the Financial Times of London announced a deal today in which the Times will use Zuora to help manage its subscription business. Two interesting paragraphs from an article in Computerworld UK stand out: “The organisation has invested heavily in its digital strategy in recent years amidst a […]
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Head up [you know where]: UK gov’t tells banks to fix IT systems
Solving bank IT breakdowns requires substantial investment that goes beyond administrative demands.

Boeing: On Becoming 100% Dependent on Suppliers at 30,000 Feet
Kudos to Bob Ferrari for picking up on some recent commentary from Boeing CEO Jim McNerney, who recently voiced his opinion of how the aerospace and defense supply chain is becoming increasingly dependent on suppliers. The news got to Bob in a sort of roundabout social media way. He notes in this regard that “The […]

Things Looking Up Much?
I read the Financial Times most days. Over the last 18 months or so the news has been mostly bad, so I have to say today’s tech digest made for very pleasant reading. You don’t need a sophisticated sentiment analysis engine to see a trend here…. Lenovo profiting from recovery Chinese PC maker Lenovo reports […]

Anil Kumar Pleads Guilty — But What’s the Lesson for Procurement?
Over on The Financial Times blog, John
Gapper provides some details and analysis of Anil Kumar’s guilty plea
in the Galleon insider-trading scandal. For those who have not been
following the situation closely, Anil Kumar, a former McKinsey D…