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Seen that? - Botnet hacker pleads guilty
in I got Spam?!, on October 2, 2009
...obile phones could be turned into 'botnets' and be used to bring down important websites or organisations, and with the nascent nature of mobile internet, handsets could be easier to infect,&q...
Ratgeberliteratur im Zwielicht
in BiblioBlog, on 07.06.09
...dern grinse die Welt an und halte den Ball flach".
Wir haben für die Arbeit Zeit-Organisations-System erlernt, haben versucht, Energien optimaler zu lenken und Flaschenhälse zu vermeiden, haben...
Finally
in The CIO Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...t have simply picked up the goalposts and moved them to Windows 7 instead of Vista ("We advise organisations to move off of Windows XP by [the end of 2012] to avoid application support problems, ...
ACTU Issues Warning About Nanomaterials
in Nanotechbuzz, on April 18, 2009
...aterials and paints... among the ACTU's demands are a national registry of all companies and organisations manufacturing, importing and supplying products containing nanomaterials, a labelling req...
Punch-Out!! Wii details on controls, multiplayer shown
in House of Nintendo, on March 21, 2009
Itching for Punch-Out!!? Join the club-especially now that Nintendo UK came out with more details on their website. For some strange reason, Nintendo promptly removed the two press releases before anyone could say "Von Kaiser's lederhosen." Fret not; we have pulled PRs right here.
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Reshaping governance: interview with Lord Michael Hastings
in Sox First, on January 10, 2009
...t the view of the company. I think we need a change of authority within the governance structure of organisations. And of course you need better supervision and transparent reporting and all of those ...
Climate change chain of command
in Sox First, on January 6, 2009
...ssues and few can nominate exactly where the responsibility lies. Experts say that in decentralised organisations, where there is a flat chain of command, there could be issues about getting informati...
Crisis Help for Anonymous High-net-Worth Individuals
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on December 19, 2008
...roup therapy for the rich that has been compared with alcoholics anonymous .
There are several organisations running wealth peering in the US, including Tiger 21, CCC Alliance and Family Office E...
Britain moves on bribery
in Sox First, on November 28, 2008
...ices on behalf of the organisation in question. This is because we believe, especially where larger organisations operating nation-wide and world-wide are concerned, that it is such failures that are ...
Elevate Destinations Works for Environmental Preservation
in Wandalust, on November 25, 2008
...appier if Elevate Travel put a figure on what percentage of their profits are donated to non-profit organisations in the host country." At the time, Elevate Destinations said simply that "a ...
Georgia Tech: Mobile Phones Highly Vulnerable to Hackers
in The Wireless Weblog, on October 15, 2008
...obile phones could be turned into 'botnets' and be used to bring down important websites or organisations, and with the nascent nature of mobile internet, handsets could be easier to infect,&q...
Crackers Against Diabetes?
in Daily Diabetic, on May 9, 2008
...abetics by almost 10-15 per cent.
Clinical trials, carried out by independent clinical research organisations INTOX and Manipal AcuNova, have proved Teestar's efficacy on healthy volunteers and...
More clarity required in travel philanthropy
in Wandalust, on May 1, 2008
...ppier if Elevate Travel put a figure on what percentage of their profits are donated to non-profit organisations in the host country, just saying "a percentage" is meaningless. If you really...
Travel Rants wins Best Consumer Blog Award
in Wandalust, on April 25, 2008
...rsial, relevant, thorough and, perhaps most tellingly, much better than something mainstream media organisations are trying to achieve."
It's great to hear that an independent blogger can ta...
Project study : SOCIAL NETWORKING ONLINE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TOURISM
in Les Explorers, on avril 8, 2008
...age 'the democratisation of criticism' carries threats as well as opportunities for tourism organisations and DMOs. In marketing terms it is more comparable to PR than to advertising in that y...
Spitzer's demise is Wall Street's gain
in Sox First, on March 13, 2008
The headline on The Wall Street Journal says it all: Wall Street Cheers As Its Nemesis Plunges Into Crisis. Andrew Sabin, a friend of Dick Grasso who Spitzer had sued to recover most of $190 million he had earned as head of the exchange, put it thus: "I said I'd buy Dick some champagne...
New global management rules
in Sox First, on February 9, 2008
...dogma, championed by American business schools, that there is only certain sure-fire ways to manage organisations. But if that's the case, why is it that certain methods like pay for performance ...
Rupee Appreciation & Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 29, 2008
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The Federation of Indian Export Organisations president Ganesh Kumar Gupta requested India's policymakers to consider establishing a hedge fund to neutralize rupee appreciation along with ...
One World Trust's Grudge Against Google: Consumer Cautions
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on December 16, 2007
Google didn't cooperate with OWT - and so they struck back in their 2007 accountability report . They even managed to give a completely false assessment on Google [pdf] "based on publicly available information." I am not going to consider OWT a good resource after this, and y...
PSA: Before Selling Your Smartphone or PDA...
in The Smart PDA, on November 26, 2007
...serves wide circulation. Here it is:
This is a public service announcement.
To all companies and organisations who decide to sell off computers or communication devices for whatever reason, please ...
Interview with Triodos Bank executives
in Sox First, on October 4, 2007
...ironmental initiatives such as wind farms, and other businesses such as organic food and fair trade organisations. In its investment banking business, Triodos manages venture capital funds to invest i...
PR, Tourism, Marketing & Web 2.0. Interview of Karin Schmollgruber from Passion PR and blog FastenYourSeatbelts.at
in Les Explorers, on août 30, 2007
...n mind, not with the companies' or stake holders' interests in mind. Destination management organisations will have to provide RSS-feeds for their partners such as hotels and attractions for a...
Getting Fit Is as Easy as Wearing Flip Flops- FIT FLOPS for a GREAT Workout for Guys and Girls. CoolPicking.com Hot Summer Ideas Blog
in Cool Picking, on July 2, 2007
New to the US (available 8/07) fitflop -pre-order the UK's hottest new fitness shoe today! Half sexy streamlining, half muscle-toning trainer, the FitFlop is the shoe to have this summer. FitFlops load your leg muscles more so you get a workout while you walk.
Every step you take w...
Seven questions for creating an ethical culture
in Sox First, on June 14, 2007
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Employees say they're more likely to stay in organisations with strong ethical cultures than those that are lacking, according to new research . As far as revelations go, it's hardly ear...
SOX fails another whistleblower test
in Sox First, on June 12, 2007
.... But in the end, the law can only do so much. The best way to address the problem is for business organisations to start using whistleblowers for intelligence gathering. Treat them as an asset and a...
10 rules for corporate social responsibility
in Sox First, on June 8, 2007
... including meaningful volunteering programs, staff lending their skills to the boards of non-profit organisations and philanthropy. For the organisation, there are five key issues that need to be add...
Snooping IT staff
in Sox First, on June 1, 2007
...have left the workplace . How would they do it? Because as the survey reveals, 20 per cent of organisations never change their administrative passwords. And one in four respondents said they kne...
Deal brewing in the Starbucks coffee fight
in Sox First, on May 22, 2007
...p its labor standards, Oxfam's win is another sign of how powerful and important non-government organisations (NGOS) can be....
Lessons in email and document protection
in Sox First, on May 3, 2007
...ifferent way and they cannot see compliance as a value proposition. "The problem is that most organisations are reactive. They wait until there's a crisis or a particular problem before they...
Unwinding Sarbanes-Oxley's red tape
in Sox First, on April 19, 2007
...going to be easy. As Wharton management professor Martin Conyon says, there was a deep distrust of organisations when Sarbanes-Oxley was signed into law in 2002. Investors had lost a fortune, people ...
Wolfowitz woes continue
in Sox First, on April 19, 2007
..., the President and staff upholding the highest standards of integrity and accountability. Like all organisations, the Bank must have systems and rules in place to ensure adherence to these standards....
Mission impossible: predicting the future
in Sox First, on April 10, 2007
...s Council of Australia Michael Chaney once told me how he used to collect forecasts from reputable organisations over a 10-year period and then compare them with the outcomes. The result: some foreca...
Mending SOX - more work ahead
in Sox First, on April 7, 2007
...wledges (right at the end), that there's still some work to be done. It's an old trick that organisations do when they put out press releases: you put the bad news on the bottom and hop...
PWC on IT Governance - CIO
in The CIO Weblog, on March 23, 2007
...office.
Although the level of maturity and acceptance of IT Governance varies considerably across organisations, a number of critical success factors were identified from the interviews. These inclu...
Interview with Axentis president Ted Frank
in Sox First, on March 14, 2007
...nt so it's hard to put a value on it. What are your views? TED FRANK: The problem is that most organisations are reactive. They wait until there's a crisis or a particular problem before they...
IDC Predictions - European Services 2007
in The CIO Weblog, on February 18, 2007
...issue. Leading to the further strenghtening of the Global Sourcing model, also you can see end user organisations & service providers alike invest in talent retention and employee benefit p...
Reputation and risk
in Sox First, on February 15, 2007
...iple categories (investors, customers, suppliers, employees, regulators, politicians, environmental organisations, communities) and address gaps between expectations and reality. It also looks at how ...
Sustainable supply chains come to attention
in Supplychainer, on January 18, 2007
...encies of their supply chains.
"A major factor in our record sales has been the realisation byorganisations that simplistic approaches to a complex problem are not goodenough any more. Efficient...
Ethics lesson from HP
in Sox First, on January 11, 2007
...business professor of legal and ethical studies Marianne Jennings here. Jennings talks about how organisations like HP allowed things to run out of control and about the danger signs . Lesson...
Year of the Dolphin
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on January 2, 2007
...or Sustainable Development. A campaign under Prince Albert II of Monaco, involving non-governmental organisations and the private sector, has been launched to protect them.
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Soaring CEO pay shows "market failure"
in Sox First, on January 2, 2007
... "Winner-take-all effects are in effect a form of market failure. We need vibrant capitalist organisations. We need to encourage investment in the people who run and work in them. And these lead...
Ann Baskins, Hewlett-Packard and the myopic organisation
in Sox First, on December 21, 2006
...ue to lawyers. Wilful blindness is a condition that goes to the heart of management itself. Modern organisations can be plagued by a wilful blindness of managers who refuse to see the bleeding obviou...
India fastest growing SaaS market in Asia - SpringBoard
in The CIO Weblog, on December 18, 2006
...ture."
But in an presentation by Forrester we have slide highlighting "What prevents organisations from considering SaaS" and the top reason seems to be COST, this data was as per ...
Business ethics on both banks of the Danube
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on December 12, 2006
...o Kauppinen says, "I have a very positive view that [CSR] ideas are developing quickly, though organisations are weak at the moment." Consumer pressure, with growing awareness that corrupt b...
Le Tourisme et l'Universite : INTERVIEW DE DOMINIQUE PAGES, Maître de conférences au CELSA Sorbonne Paris 4
in Les Explorers, on décembre 8, 2006
...ises, des institutions et des organisations du tourisme, du patrimoine, de la culture - et plus encore "des cultures".
L'analyse, la mise en oeuvre et le pilotage des stratégies de comm...
United Airlines Flight 93, conversations and whistleblowers
in Sox First, on November 16, 2006
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I have written about how organisations are designed to stop people from speaking out. I have written about how fear in the workplace and hierarchical organisations discourage whistleblowers. I&#...
Affinity Circles CEO, Steve Loughlin - OPW Interview
in The Social Networking Weblog, on November 7, 2006
... of Affinity Circles , a company that provides private social networks for universities (and other organisations). Facebook from the inside out. - Mark Brooks
What is Affinity Circles founding s...
Black Frost Hits Vintage
in Celebrate Wine, on November 5, 2006
...d by dry cold winds and deadly black frosts.
The setback for the industry comes as its peak lobby organisations and research groups today begin a campaign for an increase in federal and private sect...
2006-2011: The Rise of the (Wireless) Machines
in The Wireless Weblog, on November 3, 2006
...nd to £39 billion by 2011.
"Wireless M2M is poised to revolutionise the workings of large organisations across all industries, extending their IT assets in ways hitherto unimagined," says ...
Accountability ...
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 31, 2006
...ectors, comparing and contrasting their accountability along the way.
The accountability of these organisations will be analysed according to four key criteria - transparency, participation, evaluat...
Whats the talk about Indian Talent !!!
in The CIO Weblog, on October 23, 2006
...ts on the on the Infosys blog - Think Flat...the posts highlights a huge problem that most hiring organisations are faced with today, i completly concur with the theme out of my hiring experiences. ...
IT Outsourcing Vs. BPO
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 21, 2006
...rs" by TPI managing director Duncan Aitchison. The managing director mentioned that:
"As organisations place more and more processes in the hands of third parties they no longer require the...
Silence, the project killer
in Sox First, on October 16, 2006
I never cease to be amazed by the way managers, executives and employees lower down the food chain routinely avoid confronting the crunch issues and problems. In the case of corporate cot-cases like Enron and WorldCom, it had resulted in malfeasance on a grotesque scale. But the silence ...
Interview with Lord Michael Hastings
in Sox First, on October 13, 2006
This week, I had a chat with Lord Michael hastings , the former journalist turned activist who works as KPMG's international director of corporate citizenship, when he is not sitting in the House of Lords in London. A champion of corporate social responsibility, Lord Hastings spent 12...
Fear and Trembling: Social Enterprises
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 5, 2006
...s and why are many of these probably doomed to failure?
There seem to be 3 popular drivers for NHS organisations wanting to become social enterprises:
*Looking impressive to political masters
*Tryin...
Knock-on effects of CEO pay
in Sox First, on October 4, 2006
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Excessive pay packets for bosses could be having an enormous impact on organisations, according to a fascinating new study. The research confirms that we use other people's outcomes to...
SOX for non-profits
in Sox First, on September 27, 2006
Last month, I examined notions about Sarbanes-Oxley principles being extended to non-profits. Now a new study from The Urban Institute reveals why extending it into the non-profit sector would be difficult. On another reading, next to impossible.
The Social Enterprise Buzz ... Hype or Reality?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on September 10, 2006
..., Ed Miliband visited Portsmouth to launch Portsmouth4Funding, a funding database/hub for voluntary organisations, charities and community groups, businesses and social enterprises. A Mechanic Instit...
The Post-9/11 Jackpot for defence and oil bosses
in Sox First, on September 9, 2006
...ndustry executives did best of all, according to a study released by the the two leftish non-profit organisations, the Institute for Policy Studies and United For a Fair Economy ....
Take out the earplugs: whistleblower policies for dummies
in Sox First, on September 6, 2006
...y world with the law specifically providing them with protection from discrimination. But how many organisations have methodical approaches for registering complaints and dealing with them effectivel...
Banks tapping SOA for Business Growth & Efficiency
in The CIO Weblog, on September 4, 2006
...I-Flex site you can access the Gartner Report with a similar title which focusses on Banking organisations looking at upgrading thier IT Architectures to meet the demanding needs of the markets...
A Better Alpha Male Boss
in Sox First, on August 31, 2006
...em-solvers. But they can also micro-manage and have impossibly high standards. Apart from creating organisations with high levels of turnover, illness, absenteeism and burnout, Alpha Male bosses can ...
SOX appeal: the net widens
in Sox First, on August 22, 2006
...ing into the private sector. Paul Firstenberg, who will be teaching governance of nonprofit organisations at Yale School of Management, has a piece in onPhilanthropy.com where he outlines st...
Lost laptop lunacy
in Sox First, on August 22, 2006
... server, desktop or mobile device, the most frequent answer was "never". This is despite organisations claiming that the intellectual property most at risk included electronic spread...
CIOs Expect IT Organizations to Keep Growing - Baseline
in The CIO Weblog, on August 16, 2006
... August 2006 IT Organization Survey, confirms the CIO's except IT organisations to continue growing:
Excerpts:
IT organizations grew 3.8% on average during the past 12 months, and 45% of resp...
Is SAAS the solution for Indian Mid-Market ERP Requirements
in The CIO Weblog, on August 8, 2006
...faced section, as i read the points mentioned in the section ,i cant but think that these companies/organisations ripe/ideal for SaaS implementations/solutions of these (ERP/CRM) applications. SaaS us...
Fear in the workplace
in Sox First, on August 2, 2006
...State professor James Detert say fear of speaking up is built into our systems and the structure of organisations in a modern economy hinders it too. "Even from an evolutionary point of view, it...
Sweeping computer crime under the carpet
in Sox First, on July 24, 2006
...ty breaches which means the survey is only reflecting only so much. For example, the percentage of organisations reporting computer intrusions to law enforcement agencies is 25 per cent. That's a...
SOA shaves 5% off integration cost annually - Aberdeen Group
in The CIO Weblog, on July 17, 2006
...SOA Blog , discusses a study done by the Aberdeen group of 120 "best in class" companies/organisations who are well along in SOA. The study calculates, that these organizations "are re...
