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Seen that? - July 1 GST/HST Drops to 6% from 7%
in Small Business Unplugged, on October 31, 2009
...ts as I write this). An analysis of the latest Financial Post 500 rankings of Canada's largest corporations in 2001 and 2005 shows that the number of corporate head [...] Read More ...
Seen that? - Outsourcing to Africa
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 29, 2009
...citizens of the African continent are very interested in the billions of dollars that multinational corporations can offer in trade for services. What makes africa a viable option? Language for one. C...
Can a CIO be successful without IT experience?
in The CIO Weblog, on October 15, 2009
...f anecdotes covering the damage such technology illiterate leaders do to both their staff and their corporations.
So it might surprise you to learn that my answer to the question is yes, a CIO with...
Soros invests $1 billion in clean energy
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
...ution to solving the problem,'' he says. All of this makes sense and gives some context to the way corporations have walked out on the US Chamber of Commerce over its stance on climate change, someth...
Seen that? - Big Business Blogs?
in Small Business Unplugged, on October 11, 2009
...Small Business Unplugged The Business Edge is reporting that "Corporations as massive as McDonald's and General Motors are wading into the online "blogos...
Bribery charges turn personal
in Sox First, on October 9, 2009
... honing in on individuals involved in bribery cases. A dozen executives and high-level employees of corporations have been criminally charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act so far th...
Chamber of Commerce versus Apple
in Sox First, on October 8, 2009
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Last week, I did a blog entry looking at how corporations were leaving the US Chamber of Commerce because of its stance on climate change. This week, it was Apple's turn. It left the chamb...
Seen that? - legal file sharing and movie downloads
in TJ's Weblog, on October 7, 2009
... For bootstrap entrepreneurs, the same file sharing that has created controversy for large media corporations may aid in distribution of intellectual property which otherwise might be cost prohibit...
Harleys, tattoos and other hotel deals
in Sox First, on October 5, 2009
..., an increase in new hotel openings in the last two years and a dramatic drop in business travel as corporations cut budgets. Promotions and package deals have long been a staple of the hotel industry...
Security breaches up in 2009
in The CIO Weblog, on September 30, 2009
...A confluence of circumstances have led to an explosion of security breaches in corporations over the past year, according to a study by Canadian security researchers. The number of breaches tripled ...
The phoney bull market
in Sox First, on September 24, 2009
... any shares of stock. Despite the happy Dow and notwithstanding the upbeat corporate earnings, most corporations are still shedding workers and slashing payrolls. And the big banks still aren't le...
Cyber crime pandemic
in Sox First, on September 18, 2009
...ooks are now turning their attention to small businesses, a much easier hit than larger more secure corporations. The problem is jurisdiction. Cyber criminals oeprate in a world without borders and c...
Who Owns China's Export Sector?
in China Venture News, on September 14, 2009
...ch is about the ratio of FDI investment. I suspect that a large proportion of those exports were US Corporations, or companies de-facto controlled by US Corporations... Butter takes an interestnig loo...
Global Recovery
in China Venture News, on August 7, 2009
...Is China leading a global recovery. BusinessWeek says that many international corporations seem to think so. That theme keeps cropping up in recent conversations with CEOs and financial executives. ...
Stonyfield Farm and PepsiCo Executives Will Present Keynotes at Green Supply Chain Conference This Year
in Supplychainer, on July 31, 2009
...t to attendees on best practices for carbon disclosure.
In the current market climate, where large corporations are requiring more carbon disclosure from their suppliers, the conference will provide ...
Canadian, eh? So what?
in Eagle Par Birdie, on July 27, 2009
...he PGA Tour schedule shrinks in the coming several years with the withdrawal of broke or near-broke corporations, the pressure on the Tour's planners will grow to develop properties that will brin...
Paulson, Goldman Sachs and the four tiers of US Government
in Sox First, on July 18, 2009
...39;t want to overly scare people and make it worse," he said. Let's get this straight. US corporations have been forced to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley which is ostensibly designed to give sha...
Google releases an OS after all
in The CIO Weblog, on July 9, 2009
...off-the-shelf, ready-made platform for direct access to web-based applications that forward-looking corporations are already rolling out. Those CIOs have already been able to roll their own safe, reli...
Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on June 30, 2009
...clients. When they win contracts to manage the technology, accounting, or other operations for U.S. corporations, the Indian firms typically handle the work with about 20% to 30% of the employees in t...
Russia and Japan to Collaborate on Nanotech
in Nanotechbuzz, on June 21, 2009
...e smaller companies specializing in the development of state-of-the-art technology alongside large corporations in the sector."
The press release is here .
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iPhone price reduction rumors missing the enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
... environment where business users are practically smuggling their personally purchased iPhones into corporations under the IT department's nose, neither Apple nor AT&T are moving to capitalize...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 16, 2009
...o me: "In the long term, you could suggest in a downturn it's more important than ever for corporations to be responsible citizens and to help and support communities. And it would be crazy t...
Do boycotts work?
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
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Over the years we have seen many boycotts of corporations. Targets have included Coca Cola for it alleged repression of trade union activity in Colombia and its depletion of groundwater resources ...
SOX and complacency
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
...nerate a profit. A good share of the blame for corporate governance failures (and poorly performing corporations in general belong to passive boards of directors (the members of which are often ha...
Sun, Oracle, WordPress, and MySQL
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-24
...fession: Bloggers for Hire
• Should Google pay a tax to media corporations?
• IRLConnect puts Twitter and Facebook on a map with live video
• 5 Ways to Get Your Questions Answered on Twitter
• ...
Will Biofuel Make It?
in IfEnergy, on April 23, 2009
...se pockets are too shallow to withstand price flucuations caused by their own success. Major energy corporations like BP and Exxon will hang around to buy up technologies and innovations at the result...
Understanding (and Maybe Avoiding) the Peter Principle
in Bizinformer, on April 15, 2009
...alled The Dilbert Principle in a 1995 Wall Street Journal article. The idea is simple but paranoid: Corporations tend to promote the least competent employees to management positions to try to limit t...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
...ites, that the real problem we have now is a breakdown of trust. People simply don't trust what corporations are telling them. And needless to say, this accounting pea and thimble trick will make ...
Getting the recession right
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
...l occur, but there will be no massive across-the-board bloodletting as is the case at more panicked corporations.
Why isn't HP panicked? Hurd explains:
To be clear, these actions don't make ...
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
...have to have a culture dedicated to a product or concept to succeed? Various massive, multi-faceted corporations with many divisions and product lines might seem to disprove this immediately, but on a...
Do You Have a Jellyfish?
in IfEnergy, on March 28, 2009
...n alternative energy is going to mean that citizens conserve energy and that large multi-national corporations find new ways to generate it. The model of China , where millions of citizens ha...
What's in YOUR network?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 16, 2009
... already dastardly plans for world domination. Hutcheson speculates that this is not because those corporations have learned their lessons and stopped doing such things, but rather because network tra...
H.R.875 Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
in Do you like to cook?, on March 12, 2009
...tive aspect of the legislation. It will allow the appointing of officials from the factory farming corporations and lobbyists and classify them as experts and allow them to determine and interpret the...
Counterpoint: Employers snoop away!
in The CIO Weblog, on March 4, 2009
... In an age where millions of dollars worth of personal information is lost weekly by "careless corporations" it's hard to turn around and fault those companies for looking for staff with...
The 25 Most Dangerous Places for Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on February 26, 2009
...es.
Of course, lists like this are speculative, at best, but they do highlight something that many corporations fail to fully grasp - when your critical information is being held offshore, the effect...
Searching the Deep Enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on February 23, 2009
...enterprise search, and it has yet to pay off.
Will these new deep web indexing efforts pay off for corporations internally as well? The potential is certainly there. With most of the startups focused...
Gaps In the Schedule
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 28, 2009
...).
I fully believe the reasons are found in the grim economic realities of the day.
More and more corporations are going to question the veracity of spending millions on a single marketing event lik...
The axe man cometh: get ready for a shorter working week
in Sox First, on January 28, 2009
... France's conservative government has gutted that nation's famous 35 hour week, most French corporations are sticking to it. As Time Magazine reports, it's a useful tool for dealing with...
Most Corporations That Were Bailed Out Still Being Run By The Same CEOs
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 26, 2009
...#39;s been a while since the United States Government disbursed many billions of dollars to various corporations and the taxpayers are beginning to ask if the money delivered the desired effect.
Cons...
68,000 Jobs Lost In The United States Today
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 26, 2009
...of 68,000 jobs today.
Sprint, Pfizer, Home Depot, Philips Electronics, and several other major corporations each announced job cuts ranging from a low of 1,000 jobs lost at Starbucks to the 20,00...
President Obama Taking Hard Line On Commerce With China
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 23, 2009
...nder the Bush administration Beijing enjoyed nearly unfettered freedom to do business with American corporations; but this does not sit well with Obama or Hillary Clinton, his Secretary Of State.
Chi...
Toms Steps Up
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 19, 2009
...nd help the tournament sponsors by playing more tournaments.
What welcome words they must sound to corporations that are re-considering their future with the PGA Tour.
Too bad they didn't come o...
Club Tester Unique in Golf
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 15, 2009
... in the museum at St. Andrew's. McCormack has plenty of management experience with major global corporations like PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and Ernst and Young.
Earlier this week, I interviewed And...
Compliance challenges
in Sox First, on January 12, 2009
...rst financial crisis in more than a generation, it's a question that will weigh on the minds of corporations the world over. According to a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, 66% of r...
Corporate ethics and law
in Sox First, on January 10, 2009
...the firm to take a longer term view of its decisions and strategies. Such inclusion will also cause corporations to internalize more the costs of their decisions. In addition, the law should require c...
Recession means it's time to ramp up internal security
in The CIO Weblog, on December 24, 2008
...ailable today, it's easier than ever to transport compromised information off-premises, and few corporations have taken the extensive steps required to properly segregate and secure data and user ...
Plenty of Tour Pain Ahead
in Eagle Par Birdie, on December 12, 2008
... be very difficult.
Tim Finchem said, "what we're seeing now is a pullback on spending by corporations".
Indeed.
He also said the PGA is pursuing non-traditional sponsors like energy ...
George W rewrites history
in Sox First, on December 12, 2008
...bble. "With China and other foreign countries absorbing Treasury securities directly, and U.S. corporations still coming off of their late-90's investment binge, the beneficiaries of the tax ...
Going Broke Going For Broke
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 22, 2008
... San Antonio Hill Country Resort Courtesy: JW Marriott
You know times are bad when even the casino corporations are losing billions. How far behind can golf resorts be?
The Las Vegas Sands Corpo...
G20 undermines accounting independence
in Sox First, on November 18, 2008
...kes the point that IASB is vulnerable because it is not getting enough donations, particularly from corporations. Any institution that has little access to resources is threatened. And there is a ques...
Tough Times Ahead
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 2, 2008
...ent sponsors will start to disappear.
Consider who sponsors tournaments on the PGA tour. Financial corporations, car companies, lumber companies, farm equipment manufacturers, food companies, courier...
Bailout politics
in Sox First, on October 2, 2008
...s are being automated anyway. Nor is the answer to give tax breaks to the very wealthy and to giant corporations in the hope they will trickle down to everyone else. We have tried that and it hasn'...
Big Guns Ready To Jump Ship?
in Eagle Par Birdie, on September 30, 2008
...amp;T dropped its 2009 sponsorship of the Classic that we were entering a period when many American corporations were facing tough times.
That was well before Wall Street melted down, Lehman Brothers...
The Fall of Finance
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 29, 2008
...ith their inability to perform well to reach success.
During these times, it was near-gospel that corporations began to look at themselves less as producers of goods and services, and more like a &qu...
Can the bailout fix things?
in Sox First, on September 29, 2008
...ow into more stable ventures and pool together with more profitable resources controlled by healthy corporations or entities. Sure, pain is felt by certain parties who can't keep things going. But...
US auto makers ask for a bailout
in Sox First, on September 8, 2008
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You really have to worry when big corporations go to the Government and ask to be put on welfare! Last week, I did a blog entry looking at how General Motors was asking for a moratorium on cras...
Climbing the corporate ladder
in The CIO Weblog, on September 6, 2008
... © degreezero2000
CIOs have long had to put up with derogatory views of their position in corporations, typecast as burn-outs or incompetents at the end of their trajectory ("Career Is Over...
Emissions trading: business spits the dummy
in Sox First, on September 1, 2008
...stringent requirements. Yeah right, let's get real here. Do they expect us to believe that big corporations can't look after themselves? And does that mean businesses can't do anything to...
US taxpayers subsidize CEO pay
in Sox First, on August 26, 2008
...s. And the total cost of this little scam for taxpayers? $80.6 million. The report also found that corporations claimed 2005 stock option tax deductions that totalled $61 billion more than the expens...
OpenSolaris Storage keeps rolling along
in On Storage, on August 24, 2008
...cessful? Not for a minute! The opensource community is way too strong and plenty of SMBs, and large corporations, will easily bite the bait when money is involved. And why shouldn't they? Open...
Death throes of the corporate data center
in The CIO Weblog, on August 22, 2008
...dear, I think it's overly optimistic. There will be corporate data centers as long as there are corporations; and it won't simply be sheer bloody-mindedness on the part of CIOs that keeps them...
Dell fails on cloud computing trademark
in The CIO Weblog, on August 18, 2008
...en taking the line that this represents a breath of fresh air in the increasingly insane efforts by corporations to patent and trademark everything in sight in hopes of making a buck off it someday, w...
US corporations dodging tax
in Sox First, on August 14, 2008
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The rich are different. Unlike the rest of the population, big US corporations and foreign owned corporations are getting out of paying tax, according to the latest Government Accountability Of...
Check your USB drives at the door
in On Storage, on August 9, 2008
... © boredzo
One of these days corporations will start issuing laptops and personal computers without USB drives, CD burners , and connectivity to the Internet for file transfers.
Case in ...
MyCMDB: the cool BSM software with the funny name
in The CIO Weblog, on August 7, 2008
I made fun of Managed Objects new social-networking influenced CMDB interface product myCMDB when it was announced last month, critiquing both the kindergarten playground name of the software and the fact that something as prosaic as a configuration management database product was jumping o...
At Last. Ford, Cord, Auburn, Duesenberg Designer Gets His Own Museum Space
in Classical Drives, on July 18, 2008
...9;re Working to Keep You Moving." Not the cleverest ad line I'd ever written but with huge corporations compromises must be made and the client loved it. Because the commercial had an histori...
No more corporate crime hardball
in Sox First, on July 10, 2008
...nst corporate crime , the US Justice Department is backing off from its hard-line that forces corporations to turn over confidential communications between their attorneys and company executives...
Connect Your Corporation
in The Social Networking Weblog, on June 26, 2008
...ation are able to collaborate.
Hot Topic and Jet propulsion Laboratory are a couple of the corporations already using SocialCast for their corporate social networking needs.
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What Makes A Cloud Computer?
in Wangtam, on 2008-06-25
...mpersonators Beware.
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Millenials again
in The CIO Weblog, on June 23, 2008
...machines under the noses of the corporate bureacracy. Today they're everywhere. If things work, corporations (even GE and Johnson & Johnson) can be remarkably adaptable to the conceptions of t...
