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Mortgages: 30-year or 15-year?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 11, 2009
...d then paying it off in 15 years.
The piece looks at more than just the math, because financial decisions are usually complicated. How much risk can you take on? How disciplined are you? What othe...
Seen that? -
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 8, 2009
...eblog I have a friend who has made some really, really, really bad decisions in her life about personal finance, and she recently asked me if I would help her get on a...
How to save print media
in Sox First, on October 1, 2009
...readers away from general content to areas like product reviews or criteria for evaluating purchase decisions. Another strategy is to create new revenue streams, setting up services that for example ...
Manticore Technology Is the Solution to Your Marketing Problems
in Web 2.0, on September 7, 2009
...ess. Their marketing automation results in demand generation. Then your sales people can make sales decisions with data provided by the system's lead management software.
If you're looking f...
You Can Solve Your Marketing Problems with Manticore Technologies
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 7, 2009
...uitful process for your business.
Wouldn't it be nice for your sales people to be able to make decisions with hard data provided by an automated system? Manticore Technology is a leader in this a...
Points for comparison
in The CIO Weblog, on August 30, 2009
...s IT professionals sometimes takes a back seat to personal preference, and we find ourselves making decisions less rationally than one might hope. What exactly should progress look like, anyway? Are w...
The Power of The Fetal Fibronectin Test
in Well Woman Blog, on August 27, 2009
...study concluded that fFN testing has the potential to improve risk assessment and impact treatment decisions including the administering of steroids, increased surveillance, or cerclage intervention i...
Microsoft and the black guy
in Sox First, on August 27, 2009
...to some extent." Tim Null's Befuddled Universe blog makes a similar point. "How do decisions like this get made in the first place? Did some supervisor go, 'We need to get some pe...
Testosterone and financial risk taking
in Sox First, on August 26, 2009
...en. Too much of the stuff affected people of both genders and as a result, they approached monetary decisions with less caution and flocked to jobs in finance. Think about that next time you talk to a...
Making mortgages easier to understand
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009
...omes that they really couldn't afford.
But mortgage lenders were complicit in a lot of the bad decisions that homebuyers made. Will the Fed's new rules change this? I have to admit, I'm p...
Paulson, Goldman Sachs and the four tiers of US Government
in Sox First, on July 18, 2009
...he general public has become in the minds of those calling the shots and making the critical policy decisions in the wake of the worst economic crisis to afflict the American people since the Great De...
Should we do strategic planning for our supply chain?
in Supplychainer, on July 15, 2009
...k of making costly errors. The case of General Motors is especially troubling as they speed to make decisions with respect to international outsourcing, dealer closures and according to new GM Chairma...
Why it matters if your neighbor's struggling to pay the mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 9, 2009
...od that was out of their price range. These homeowners should suffer the consequences for their bad decisions.
Now, I've debated this whole thought process before. I've argued that most homeo...
Taking out a mortgage loan without going mad
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 6, 2009
...e lower your monthly mortgage payment.
The problem comes when home buyers try to time their buying decisions to coincide with the lowest mortgage interest rate possible. This is tricky stuff. No one ...
Would you walk away from your mortgage loan?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 29, 2009
...ents often led buyers to homes that were too expensive for them.
Yet, the people making the final decisions were those homeowners who signed the mortgage papers. They knew — or at least they s...
Undervalued or Not, the Yuan is Not Likely to Gain Much
in China Venture News, on June 29, 2009
...eping is touch with reality is important if you're going to make good policy and good financial decisions.
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Windows 7 Pricing announced
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2009
... the other hand, sees the licensing costs distinctly and is more likely to factor them into upgrade decisions.
I'm not throwing this out there as a sign of weakness on Microsoft's part or as ...
Mercy for Madoff plea
in Sox First, on June 24, 2009
Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how Bernard Madoff's victims wanted the fraudster to get the full 150 year jail sentence. Many of the victims were not high flyers. Madoff ripped off widows and war veterans too. He didn't discriminate. Now, Madoff's lawyers are te...
Improving working capital through effective supply chain management
in Supplychainer, on June 22, 2009
...n using rule of thumb.
- Improve SKU forecasting methods
- Calculate financial impact of inventory decisions and link these two together
...
Behind the social networks
in Sox First, on June 13, 2009
...uot; connected like keeping up with the Joneses so the social influence will influence their buying decisions. But highly connected users tend to reduce their purchases of items when they see their fr...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...Mozilo, people who did everything they could to take advantage of the housing market, good business decisions be damned....
Time Warner Inc. Announces Plan to Separate AOL
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-30
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微软推出新搜索引擎 Bing
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-30
今天，微软推出全新搜索引擎 Bing ，力图借助语义识别技术更好掌握用户搜索意图，提供更符合需求的内容链接，向搜索引擎巨头 Google 发起挑战。
微软掌门人 Steve Ballmer 在今天的 Allthings D 大会上展示了新版的 Bing 搜索引擎，微软将会在下周三正式发布这一搜索引擎。Ballmer 表示，Bing 这个词语很容易被作为动词使用，显然是直指竞争对手 Google。
多家公司的统计显示，微软目前在美国搜索市场的份额已经下滑到了 10% 以下，与此同时，Google 掌控了七成，微软苦心积虑要进行合作的雅虎占据了两成。另外，微软的搜索份额还处于一直下滑的...
ROI Measurement and Misunderstanding
in The CIO Weblog, on May 26, 2009
...ents which are being controlled at such a level that they are being precluded from making their own decisions as to the best architecture for service delivery have worse problems than justifying SOA b...
Microsoft Shuts Off Windows Live Messenger IM For Users In Countries Embargoed By The US
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-23
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Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...n it comes to the critical need to maintain organizational integration around fundamental business decisions.
Even in tough times - no - especially in tough times, that old adage "haste makes wa...
Why stricter laws won't work
in Sox First, on May 13, 2009
...e scale, such as what happened in the Soviet Union, if people don't practice making responsible decisions, then they lose their capacity to do so. It's like any skill, particularly a skill of ...
微软确认将于 12 月正式发售 Windows 7
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-12
刚才在洛杉矶的 TechEd 2009 会议上，微软 Windows 业务高级副总裁 Bill Veghte 确认，微软确认将于 12 月正式发售 Windows 7。公司旗下的另一款产品，适用于客户端及服务器版本的 Windows Server 2008 R2 也将于同期上市。
微软同时表示，将在今年 7 月向此次年会的参加者放出 Office 2010 的技术预览版。微软的一位产品经理 Ward Ralston 则表示，这并不意味着 Office 2010 步入了正式发布前的阶段。微软尚未公布该产品的发布日期。
微软在半月前推出了首个 RC 版的 Windows 7，这也意味着该...
Microsoft needs LESS focus, not more
in The CIO Weblog, on May 8, 2009
...s to new markets the way that it used to. It's true there needs to be ruthless pruning and hard decisions made about where the company invests resources. That's always been the case and the co...
SOX and complacency
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
...en you do that on a very large scale, as occurred in the Soviet Union, they stop making responsible decisions. Like any skill, that falls away when it isn't used. Corporate governance needs an ove...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...in his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Keynes said investors based their decisions on "animal spirits" and a "spontaneous urge to action". Contrary to ra...
Window 7 coming early, as expected
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2009
...s give them more time to mull it over. The sooner 7 is out, the sooner organizations will be making decisions over whether or not to adopt it. Although it is an artificial deadline, it's an operat...
Dangerous economic optimism
in Sox First, on April 25, 2009
...e is slowing. Secondly, it can lull them into a sense of complacency where they won't make hard decisions on crunch issues like fixing the banks and ruinous deflation. So what to make of all the ...
New partnership to offer supply chain network design services
in Supplychainer, on April 11, 2009
...er of logistics services, announced recently that it has formed a strategic alliance with Automated Decisions, to provide a Supply Chain Network Optimization Service to the chemical industry.
Accord...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 11, 2009
...ad of trying to find out the real losses. Stop that, because you need good information to make good decisions, right? Follow what works instead of what's failed. Start appointing people who have r...
Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum
in The CIO Weblog, on April 8, 2009
... business users as to the potential uses and abuses of technology, while leaving many of the policy decisions up to the board or executive team.
The economy was oft alluded to but never discussed. Th...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-03-19
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Interview with Warren McGregor, IASB board member
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
...s no doubt the European banks want to see us opening up these issues and re-debate them and come up decisions that they prefer but I don't think holding us to hostage will happen again. What happe...
Bush-era Bans on Stem Cell Research, Lifted By President Obama
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 9, 2009
...tific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda, and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology."
Obama gave the National Institutes of Health 120 d...
The key themes in the supply chain of tomorrow
in Supplychainer, on March 9, 2009
...hain network can help reduce the total carbon footprint and help make better customer service-level decisions as well as lead to more advantageous outsourcing of key functions.
Sustainable sourcing ...
Petition to Protect Wine Place and Origin
in Celebrate Wine, on March 4, 2009
...d that a wine's true origin be clearly identified on its label in order for us to make informed decisions when purchasing and consuming wine. This ensures we know where our wine comes from and pro...
Counterpoint: Employers snoop away!
in The CIO Weblog, on March 4, 2009
...nal in nature. It's not professional information. Therefore it should have no bearing on hiring decisions.
That would be great if people could be counted on to leave their personal lives at home...
Viewing new technologies through old prisms
in The CIO Weblog, on February 19, 2009
...e different. I fall into this trap frequently enough myself that I have to remind myself that while decisions should always be informed by history, they should never be chained to it. In this case, th...
AOL 宣布裁员 700 人
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-04
TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。
Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。
本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。
上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...
Privacy on the Web
in Web 2.0, on February 3, 2009
...privacy than they actually did have .
My own sense of privacy revolves primarily around personal decisions about what to reveal and what not to reveal about myself. If you blog, you're in the s...
Rupert Murdoch's downturn blues
in Sox First, on January 31, 2009
...ext few years, unless the global economy rapidly recovers and/or News Corp. begins to make the hard decisions to shutter businesses and/or innovate their way out of the downward spiral facing several ...
More Tips On Saving Money On Your Food Bills
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on January 28, 2009
...et some money aside for important things, and some long-range things, then it is time to make those decisions.
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5530754
Start with your eating habits...
Jobs 要请个长假
in Wangtam, on 2009-01-16
...rategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.
I look forward to seeing all of you this summer. ...
Maths and the meltdown
in Sox First, on January 15, 2009
...f scam exposed that badly. A recent article in Science magazine by Chelsea Ward explains how our decisions around money are not that rational at all, and how so many smart people got it so wrong. Y...
Reshaping governance: interview with Lord Michael Hastings
in Sox First, on January 10, 2009
...rameworks. There is a need to bring independence of voice into board decision making and investment decisions and that independence of voice should clearly have economic independence so that there is ...
Corporate ethics and law
in Sox First, on January 10, 2009
...
More than two years ago, I did a blog entry on the difference between ethics and morality. Moral decisions, around issues like theft and corruption, are absolutes regardless of time or culture. The...
Rise of the new consumer
in Sox First, on January 7, 2009
...r does it contribute to the electricity grid? The judicious consumer is highly judgmental and makes decisions for themselves (or aligns with a group that makes judgments for them...Viewed within this ...
Iraqi's Take Over "Green Zone" And Command Of U.S. Troops
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 1, 2009
...United States forces will act in an instructive and advisory capacity and no longer make unilateral decisions.
Here are the details compliments of "Yahoo News" .
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Supply chain risk trends for 2009
in Supplychainer, on December 31, 2008
...ility in energy, commodity, labor rates and currency exchange. Companies need to factor into their decisions potential fluctuations in future energy and commodity prices, as well as labor and currenc...
Results from new Aberdeen's supply chain intelligence benchmark
in Supplychainer, on December 27, 2008
...tivities such as S&OP and try to provide business users with adequate information for taking decisions....
SEC and Madoff: shutting the stable gate after the horse has bolted
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
...e all staff contact and relationships with the Madoff family and firm, and their impact, if any, on decisions by staff regarding the firm. The Commission believes strongly that it is vital that SEC in...
George W rewrites history
in Sox First, on December 12, 2008
...n points out, the origins of this crisis are in no small part due to two of the most destabilising decisions undertaken by the President: the Iraq war which according to Nobel economics laureate Jo...
Rubin's self-serving "innocence"
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...ting that no-one saw it coming. This is coming from someone who was instrumental to Citigroup's decisions three years ago to take on more risk to boost flagging profits. For his part, Rubin claim...
Citi slickers
in Sox First, on November 25, 2008
...nt in US history has announced that there might be more rescues. "We have made these kind of decisions in the past, made one last night, and if need be we're going to make these kind of dec...
Dreaming of a Trophy at Pebble Beach? Better Get Moving
in Classical Drives, on November 21, 2008
...eaming of winning a "best of" trophy. For 2009, however, entrants will need to make their decisions sooner: All entry applications must be received by the Concours Selection Committee by J...
G20 undermines accounting independence
in Sox First, on November 18, 2008
...ces is threatened. And there is a question whether companies give money to influence the IASB's decisions. "There is concern that the IASB has been and will increasingly be under political p...
Recession impacts India based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 12, 2008
As if having China encroaching on them weren't enough, the powerhouses of Indian IT outsourcing are feeling the impact of the global economic crisis.
Conventional wisdom, including that espoused by yours truly, held that outsourcing shops and their ilk (including consultants) could prosper ...
Whirlpool experience with supply chain restructuring
in Supplychainer, on October 27, 2008
...information about the possible M&A is a fundamental part because it affects the final SC design decisions (e.g. the location and size of the DCs, etc.)
- Include some degree of flexibility in you...
Is reverse offshoring a trend?
in Supplychainer, on October 25, 2008
...decision of some U.S. based companies to bring back their offshore operations. As I understood, the decisions were based on in three main drivers:
- Increase in the labor salary in offshore places w...
Seven sounding good
in The CIO Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...otice new information which tends to support your existing beliefs or which somehow validates prior decisions or recommendations, and maybe that is why I am seeing so many things these days that make ...
Towards a Philosophy of Travel
in The Flyaway Weblog, on October 19, 2008
...can actually be a good think. It forces us to think outside the proverbial box and make quick decisions.
I recall my first solo trip to Egypt. Egypt Air had fowled up my reservation from Cairo to Lu...
GM-Chrysler merger: a bad idea for bad times
in Sox First, on October 12, 2008
...quot; Maybe, but these are desperate times. And when times get tough, people panic and make stupid decisions
...
Less Stimulating Than Hoped?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 2, 2008
...we were an "ownership society" now. How about letting the finance companies own their bad decisions, and we'll take back ownership of the $700 billion. Who's with me?...
The Fall of Finance
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 29, 2008
... Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Felix Möckel
For about the last ten years, many corporate decisions were guided by (or held up by) concerns raised by the finance department. Many of those &qu...
