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China's supply chain challenge: Mitigating supply risk
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
... contributing region for nine of 15 risks examined, including supplier and internal product quality failure, security breaches and intellectual property infringement. (Note: Probably you remember some...
Criticism starts to catch up to AppEngine
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2009
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Pretty much every cloud service failure these days results in a predictable volley of coverage; the unbelievers crow over another purported example of the perfidy of over-hyped utility computin... ...
Pretty much every cloud service failure these days results in a predictable volley of coverage; the unbelievers crow over another purported example of the perfidy of over-hyped utility computin...
How biotech companies can reduce supply chain risk?
in Supplychainer, on June 25, 2009
... shut down (the same as many other sectors:)).
What was interesting for me was their use of FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) which is very established method in quality management to reduce s...
I Am Making The SSD Jump Thanks to Kingston V-Series Kit
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 16, 2009
...ast spectacle; it advertises up to 100MB/Sec read speeds. Kingston promises a 50% speed improvement over standard 7200RPM hard drives, and a 1 million mean time before failure. More importantly, the p... ...romises a 50% speed improvement over standard 7200RPM hard drives, and a 1 million mean time before failure. More importantly, the process to upgrade, and to tools to do it are included. This is SSD f...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...once the king of the mortgage-lending business. Now he's the face of the industry's massive failure. According to the Reuters story, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil l...
PSP Go is Official, but Where is it Headed
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 1, 2009
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There are three types of products: trend-setters, trend-setter competitors, and failures. For example, the Nintendo DS was a trend-setter, and the original PSP was a competitor, and the iPod Touc...
Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Can Repair Heart Tissue
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 29, 2009
...ow stem cells into skeletal muscle can repair cardiac tissue and thus reverse damages due to heart failure by doubling myocytes, or heart cells, and reducing cardiac tissue injury by 60 percent.
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Pay cuts fail to save HP jobs
in The CIO Weblog, on May 28, 2009
...g the company to announce that it will be making recession-related layoffs after all... 6000 jobs over the next 12 months, amounting to 2% of the overall workforce.
I caught a lot of flack from HP ... ... prefer the more traditional sugar-coating and uncertainty followed by outright layoffs or business failure, prompting this observation in comments:
It's an interesting portrait in psychology, h...
How to introduce a carbon tax
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
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One of the big issues facing governments is whether to proceed with carbon trading or introduce a carbon tax. A carbon tax is better because it's more efficient, transparent and simple. Cap-an... ...ivers and those dams and reservoirs might endanger wildlife and might be vulnerable to catastrophic failure, unleashing devastating floods on those downstream. Indeed, this risk might be increased by ...
The problem with economists
in Sox First, on May 18, 2009
...ankers have deservedly received much of the blame for the financial bloodbath that's paralysed governments and transformed societies. But economists are just as much to blame. Possibly even more b... ... France, sheds light on the hubris of the profession. The paper, The Financial Crisis and Systemic Failure of Academic Economics points out that this crisis is different from its predecessors. While...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
... following his publication of "The Big Switch." Werner Vogels' most recent post covers the study of Drama in London, for god's sake, and he usually doesn't post anymore on ut... ...happen a lot more frequently than "doing things right." The danger to IT shops lies in a failure to adapt to this reality even as the market around them does. As Lawson says, "...if IT ...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
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The global crisis is as much a failure of ethics as it is of finance. Business at the end of the day has to serve society which gives it its licence to operate. Creating virtual products as they d...
Failure Whets the Appetite for Success
in TJ's Weblog, on May 5, 2009
...Brad over at Feld's Thoughts had some interesting ideas to share recently about everybody's favorite topic: failure. More specifically, he looked at how failure impacted the entrepreneurial ... ...'s Thoughts had some interesting ideas to share recently about everybody's favorite topic: failure. More specifically, he looked at how failure impacted the entrepreneurial spirit. Give me th...
S&OP in high tech companies should incorporates measures of risk
in Supplychainer, on April 30, 2009
...he consumer electronics sector. It might, in fact, be a case of having too much information."
Overall, it seems that high tech companies should revise their S&OP capabilities again to be eve... ...decision-makers are now more concerned about maintaining the integrity of their pipeline. "The failure of some suppliers in China has become an issue," he said. "And having the low-wage...
Are economists to blame for the financial crisis?
in Sox First, on April 23, 2009
... It's hard to go past this piece in the Weekly Standard by Harvey Mansfield , a professor of government at Harvard, which places the blame firmly on the doorstep of the dismal science. Basically... ... of what creates profit opportunities and causes instability in the global economy results from the failure of these assumptions. Herd behaviour, asset mispricing and grossly imperfect information hav...
To panic, or not to panic
in The CIO Weblog, on April 22, 2009
...to separate the two.
The short version of the story is that unknown intruders opened up a manhole cover, entered the vault beneath, and cut a number of fiber-optic cables, which happened to carry a s... ... cell service also went down as the trunks to towers were severed. An unanticipated side effect was failure of software systems internal to the hospital, which apparently required outside connectivity...
Is all this free sustainable?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 16, 2009
... useful. But the real question is, would you have come up with those ideas on your own? Because the failure of this generation of innovative services might have a significant chilling effect on invest...
Data Robotics Introduces DroboPro Storage Device
in On Storage, on April 11, 2009
...inch SATA hard drives to back up data and to provide redundancy to protect against the simultaneous failure of up to two hard disks," writes InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves . "When a...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...liam Black , Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention warns that this amounts to a cover up. In an interview with Bill Moyers , Black says it's a cover up. BILL MOYERS : Yeah. A... ...ad of what's failed. Start appointing people who have records of success, instead of records of failure. That would be another nice place to start. There are lots of things we can do. Even today, ...
Here we go again
in The CIO Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...rosoft haven't gone away yet, much to my annoyance). What is up with these companies? Just roll over and be acquired already! Does anyone at Sun imagine a song and dance routine is going to improv... ...ction among those who sign the checks: the sheer amount of confusion and uncertainty created by the failure of this deal creates risk that can in most cases be avoided by proceeding with other vendors...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 3, 2009
... cost of capital. Executives will not be given bonuses immediately when the risks are stretched out over time and where it's uncertain when the money will start coming in. Bonuses should be reduce... ...reduced or taken off the table when the firm starts performing badly so there will be no reward for failure. Furthermore, firms have to "clear, comprehensive and timely information" about th...
From Ganz: Site Issues Update
in WebKinzBlog, on March 31, 2009
... This weekend we had a hardware failure with one of our many servers. We are currently in the process of fixing this issue. The impact of this failure is that the Curio Shop information for today was ...
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
... a certain scale, a division might have a culture of its own which could substitute for that of the overall corporation. Still, there are a lot of factors in the market that can influence success.
I ... ...#39;s a bit of an open question as to how much corporate culture actually matters to the success or failure of the products produced by the company. Certainly it's always a factor; the question is...
The questions you should ask before going to implementation of SCM solutions?
in Supplychainer, on March 28, 2009
...ment at the top; supporting the initiative and trying to resolve issues is a fundamental element to overcome these challenges.
- Do we have a good project manager and project management structure? ... ... people have asked me is: "How should we approach implementation of a SCM initiative, avoiding failure?". Well, I think we should even start from before the implementation: We should ask our...
Staying Motivated
in TJ's Weblog, on March 16, 2009
...one what that.
The post goes on to talk about several other things to avoid. Things like fear of failure, or that "quiet period" where nothing at all happens for weeks or months.
You can ...
Skype 4.0.0.215 for Windows（含 Protable 版）
in Wangtam, on March 15, 2009
Skype 4.0 上周有了小更新，主要都是一些 Bug 修复。
11.03.2009 Skype 4.0.0.215 for Windows
Biocase Fingerprint Lock Will Be Well Intentioned Failure
in The Gadgets Weblog, on March 4, 2009
...of the biocase, Heys USA, are promoting the Biocase as a carry-on, and it is designed to fit in the overhead compartment. So technically, security shouldn't be a major concern - until it is. Until...
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 27, 2009
...lesson of the past two years is that the worst can happen, and then some. In times like these, the government and investors need to play 'What If?' even when it involves some outlandish possib... ... investors need to play 'What If?' even when it involves some outlandish possibilities. The failure to do such worst-case planning, even after plenty of red flags, probably made the after-shoc...
Still in the dark on Steve Jobs
in Sox First, on February 26, 2009
...ast month, I did a blog entry slagging off at the Apple board and its total failure of corporate governance, keeping shareholders in the dark about Steve Jobs, his health and the likelihood or other... ...
Last month, I did a blog entry slagging off at the Apple board and its total failure of corporate governance, keeping shareholders in the dark about Steve Jobs, his health and the likelihood or ...
Dumb money and the meltdown
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...could deliver steady, positive, market-beating returns in any type of climate, despite the manifest failure of virtually every other money manager to do so-were obviously foolish. But our best financi...
Fly.com
in Wangtam, on February 17, 2009
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• A Successful Failure - Fail Whale
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• PixyJobs.com - Find Web Development Jobs
• Welcome to Popling - The Learn Spanish, Frenc...
SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...r you to a recent study from IDC forecasting a continued expansion in the SaaS market despite our overall economic woes.
This isn't just good news for SaaS investors and vendors, but also for c... ...chnology or technical concept, without considerable depth of adoption, it risks marginalization and failure in the markets. A significant concern noted by many CIOs when considering SaaS solutions has...
The Return of Depression Economics and Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on February 14, 2009
...ng. One of the most striking features about this book is the way Krugman tracks economic meltdowns over the ages. And after a while, they start bearing a striking similarity. He looks at the implosio... ...et to one, but depression economics has returned. For the first time in two generations, there is a failure in the demand side of the economy. To put it bluntly, there is insufficient spending. The ob...
IBM provides EC2 versions of server software
in The CIO Weblog, on February 12, 2009
...tion images will be launched in beta (when did "production" and "beta" start to overlap?) in the coming months.
IBM has been working on its own cloud computing initiatives, but ... ...r a mixed model and to produce its own cloud service, Azure, in-house, but there are glimmerings of failure in those efforts already (although the game is hardly over). IBM may be able to vault over t...
Dashboard Madness
in The CIO Weblog, on February 11, 2009
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Michael Krigsman, of ZDNet's IT Project Failures blog, points out the recent rapid expansion of flashy technology dashboards, those cool collections of reports and data which appeal to almos...
Bank bailout failure
in Sox First, on February 3, 2009
... the latest events are showing us that Bush's bank bailout strategy was a complete and absolute failure. First, we had the reports last week of four banks closing in January. The year had barel...
Credis Suisse sheds light on hedge fund failure
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 2, 2009
... the years that followed.
Read Complete Article:
Contributing Factors To Hedge Funds' 2008 Failure
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A Conversation with Larry Guevel of Unisys
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 29, 2009
... may call for an independent third-party to provide such services.
Our conversation then moved to governance issues - always a challenge with outsourcing deals. Mr. Guevel suggested that governance i... ...g developed that will simplify the porting of information back to the client in the event of vendor failure. These technologies can help mitigate the risk of SaaS failure, making the business case for...
Most Corporations That Were Bailed Out Still Being Run By The Same CEOs
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 26, 2009
...It'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.
C... ...s that are being cut and the low expectations for future business most people see the bail out as a failure.
Then there's the issue of the extremely highly paid CEOs who were running these corpor...
Economic Hardships Cause Eastern Europeans To Stage Massive Protests
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 25, 2009
...Latvia, a usually quiet country, has been the stage for massive protests over the government's apparent failure to provide economic relief to the country.
A crowd in excess of 10,000 protested in... ...a usually quiet country, has been the stage for massive protests over the government's apparent failure to provide economic relief to the country.
A crowd in excess of 10,000 protested in the cap...
Global warming a last priority
in Sox First, on January 24, 2009
... the Obama administration. Global warming ranks as the last. It's perfectly understandable but failure to deal with climate change will have a catastrophic impact on the economy and business. The...
The SOA imbroglio
in The CIO Weblog, on January 23, 2009
...It's been a few weeks since the dustup over whether SOA is dead or not (consensus: not), a tempest in a teapot kicked off by Anne Thomas Manes claiming that it was the recession that did it , in ... ...;it's just a hoax!" and hilarity ensued.
It turns out that SOA hasn't been quite the failure that Manes portrayed it as, at least in the minds of those who have been deploying it, and ...
SaaS Office suites; last in, first out?
in The CIO Weblog, on January 22, 2009
IBM has thrown its hat in the SaaS office collaboration suite ring this week with the announcement of the online version of Lotus Notes, Lotus Live (aside: why does that redirect to a secure channel even if you slap an "http" on the front? People gotta encrypt their marketing informa...
Steve Jobs and board failure
in Sox First, on January 22, 2009
Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at why Steve Jobs' health was an issue for investors. It boils down to one simple equation: Jobs is Apple's most important asset and his health affects the stock price. Notwithstanding Jobs taking several months off to sort out his he...
A Basic How To on Business Plans
in Biz Plan Hacks, on January 19, 2009
...y Dave Turkin of Accessible Business Consultants. Turkin is a full service business consultant with over 32 years of experience working with small-medium size businesses. The style of a good Business ... ...ique. It is between the syntax of a SEC document in which every aspect of the business is doomed to failure and a marketing piece in which everything about the business is wonderful. It is a factual d...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
...pad their margins by hiring sub-standard talent, or cutting corners on the services they provide. A failure to significantly assess the impact of outsourced tasks on your operations and to systematica...
Russia Shuts Off Natural Gas Supply Line To The Ukraine
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 1, 2009
...y of natural gas that flows across Russia to The Ukraine.
This action was taken in response to the failure to agree on gas prices for 2009.
Because of decreased demand for natural gas, and a diversi...
Fair value blow for banks
in Sox First, on January 1, 2009
...quot;The staff observes that fair value accounting did not appear to play a meaningful role in bank failures occurring during 2008," the SEC said. "Rather, bank failures in the U.S. appeared...
The Madoff lawsuits roll in
in Sox First, on December 24, 2008
...ith Madoff. She alleges, with good reason, that the SEC was negligent in failing to detect the scam over the last decade, claiming its "failure enabled Madoff to perpetuate and expand the scheme,... ..., that the SEC was negligent in failing to detect the scam over the last decade, claiming its "failure enabled Madoff to perpetuate and expand the scheme, drawing in more and more innocent invest...
Madoff fallout continues to spread
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
...how big firms like KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, supposedly the experts in this area, could have overlooked the red flags. Meanwhile TPM Muckraker reports that the Securities and Exchange Commis... ... that the Securities and Exchange Commission is now in a complete state of panic over its complete failure to spike the fraud before it blew up....
Conspiracy theorist wanted
in The CIO Weblog, on December 19, 2008
... to be rerouted throughout the region.
I never saw any convincing explanation for the coincidental failure of three seperate undersea cables within a week earlier this year, although the faults were ...
SEC and Madoff: shutting the stable gate after the horse has bolted
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
... recommended to the Commission for action. I am gravely concerned by the apparent multiple failures over at least a decade to thoroughly investigate these allegations or at any point to seek formal au... ...ere never recommended to the Commission for action. I am gravely concerned by the apparent multiple failures over at least a decade to thoroughly investigate these allegations or at any point to seek ...
Core IT skills lacking in talent pool?
in The CIO Weblog, on December 11, 2008
...s, is this really any different than it has ever been, and if so, why are people making such a fuss over it? Didn't we hear this same screed just ahead of Y2K, when our disturbing lack of COBOL ex... ... decline. While the systems may be important, they clearly aren't unstable ... if they were so failure prone, if candidates with such skills were really so necessary, you'd see a lot more of ...
When supply chain makes two enemies good friends
in Supplychainer, on December 10, 2008
...mpanies like Toyota or Honda are competitors of BIG 3 in the U.S., they don't like to see their failure. The reason is simple: Because many of the suppliers for automakers are the same and if one ...
Entellium files Chapter 11; Intuit hopes to pick up the pieces
in The CIO Weblog, on December 3, 2008
...mer base. What happens with those customers could be of considerable importance to the industry and overall perception of the safety of SaaS solutions.
According to an article in the Seattle Times,... ...actly that may be hasn't yet been made clear. As I posted in early October, the company's failure subsequent to the perfidious mismanagement of the now indicted CEO and Senior VP might be ou...
Britain moves on bribery
in Sox First, on November 28, 2008
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Britain's bribery laws are finally set for an overhaul withe Law Commission bringing in a set of proposals that would make Britain's enforcement standards more like the US. Under the pr... ...ated in Britain. Another proposal is to bring in a separate offence of bribing a foreign official. Failure to prevent bribery is also an offence. The Law Commission explains: "Under our recommen...
Diabetes, Women and Heart Attack
in Daily Diabetic, on November 28, 2008
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Compared with the male patients, female patients had higher rates of high blood pressure and heart failure and were more likely to smoke.
Does this mean that women should be more careful? We should...
Immigration Becomes a "Back Burner" Issue in the U.S.
in Global Mobility Report, on November 24, 2008
...immigration has led to tougher enforcement of existing immigration law in America - including raids over the last year that sometimes seem heavy handed.
Enforcement actions over the past year have no... ...e new administration of President-elect Barack Obama takes on more pressing economic problems.
The failure of Congress to reform immigration has led to tougher enforcement of existing immigration law...
System Failure: Va Tech's Text Messaging System Crashes
in The Universities Weblog, on November 17, 2008
Safety on campus has changed a lot since the tragedy at Virginia Tech back in April of 2007. Many schools, Va Tech among them, have implemented emergency alert systems that include sending text messages students.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that the text-message alert syste...
The hypocrisy of Bush
in Sox First, on November 14, 2008
... George Bush's latest outburst , where he defends free markets and warns not to have too much Government interference in the economy. You can read his full speech here . "History has shown... ...ces from the left and right are equating the free enterprise system with greed and exploitation and failure. It's true this crisis included failures - by lenders and borrowers and by financial fir...
Britain is a laggard on bribery
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
...ry. Britain has ignored previous calls to strengthen its stance on bribery, suggesting that the UK Government is actually colluding with wrongdoing. The report notes: "The Working Group is disap... ...riously concerned with the unsatisfactory implementation of the Convention by the UK. The continued failure of the UK to address deficiencies in its laws on bribery of foreign public officials and on ...
The Boring Game
in Eagle Par Birdie, on October 21, 2008
...an is a Scottish golf writer who pens his material for The Scotsman newspaper. His latest lament is over how boring professional golf has become. Week after week, he argues, we are subjected to the sa... ...al points earned over a season and then handicapped for the final six tournaments is a heavy-handed failure of an attempt to "create" excitement.
Golf's excitement is in the playing of...
Financial meltdown and climate change
in Sox First, on October 17, 2008
... with climate change? Both are the result of market failure, both are symptoms of the inability of government and markets to plan for the future and both reflect the dominance of short-term thinking. ... ...rime meltdown remind me of our inability to deal with climate change? Both are the result of market failure, both are symptoms of the inability of government and markets to plan for the future and bot...
Alonso 'too slow' says Ranieri
in The Soccer Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...Liverpool to Juventus in the Summer, as we all know, didn't take place. It was thought that the failure of the move to go through was as a result of the Gareth Barry transfer from Aston Villa ...
Entellium fallout
in The CIO Weblog, on October 9, 2008
...es from the wrong side of the prison bars today, facing up to 20 years and $250,000 fines for "overstating" Entellium's revenue to investors. In the economic climate we're currently ... ...(despite the inevitable reassurances to the contrary) if we were going to see the first significant failure of a SaaS business and the subsequent ghastly fallout among customers who may lose both thei...
Free £5000 supplier failure cover
in Wandalust, on October 1, 2008
...out of pocket due to supplier failure. If you book a flight through Freedom Direct you'll be covered by either their ATOL membership or the failure insurance. With accommodation only booking the c... ...ct is offering customer who book their flight and/or accommodation through them a £5000 supplier failure insurance backed guarantee. In the light of the recent collapse of the Zoom airline and the X...
Russ Busted: Hamilton Named Behind UB Super-User Scandal
in Internet Poker, on September 30, 2008
... Eurocentric sports car or two, a house near people you see in movies, and maybe a few million left over for a decent lawn mower .
The amount noted above is the current sum of money that has been... ...or its agents.
5. Ultimate Bet shall immediately pay a fine of $1.5 Million USD to the KGC for its failure to implement and enforce measures to prohibit and detect fraudulent activities.
6. Ultimate ...
Cardiosphere-Derived Stem Cells for Treatment of Heart Disease
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 30, 2008
...al trials."
Capricor Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and specializes in discovering, developing, and commercializing biotherapeutics for the treatment of heart diseases. See th... ...erapies using CDC.
"CDCs are the perfect stem cells to treat heart attacks and chronic heart failure" said Foellmer [President and CEO]. " Our stem cells are easily accessible from ...
IT jobs in a down market
in The CIO Weblog, on September 29, 2008
...able that we are going to have a significantly down market at this point (previous prognostications over the sustainability of IT in recession or low growth economy are obviously right out the window)... ...on the outcomes of the meltdown in the financial sector; it seems certain they are correct that the failure of so many large financial institutions (an IT-heavy industry) will put a lot of technical s...
The end of capitalism as we know it?
in Sox First, on September 27, 2008
...ave a capitalism in which financial institutions trade freedom for the protection of access to the government's balance sheet (Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley). In which institutions under stress... ...ch institutions under stress accept pervasive government regulation in return for insurance against failure. In which the advantages of free trade are sacrificed in the interests of preserving job...
