Trends, News and Opinion for Performance Controllers
July 26th
Gideon Shalwick, is an experienced and widely known internet marketer and author, who recently shared a confronting lesson he had. This bears reposting here as it has something for everyone.
He says when you get to a certain level in your profession or ...
July 19th
Few things are as critical to CFO's and finance professionals as our systems. From core accounting and budgeting platforms to back office infrastructure, ERP and CRM are all moving online, into the "cloud", and an entirely new business model called “Softw...
July 16th
With the recent political unrest in Thailand the strategic importance of this country in South East Asia and its place as a stable economic base is becoming more understood.
As this remarkable economy rebounds, there remains no doubt that indelible “po...
July 13th
Here is something to ponder. The Corporate Executive Board Company, says five years ago, less than 25% of business leaders rated their IT function’s effective to deliver the capabilities they needed. They go on to say in 2010 the number has not changed.
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July 3rd
This week in Melbourne, I had a great lunch with my son. He talked abut his city based vocation as a building construction manager It is not without hazard when it comes to parking he told me. Later he sent me a very funny letter written to the Melbourne ...
June 27th
Recently an ulcer in my mouth was quite distressing. I attempted to research it to find some sort of relief. You would think for such a simple thing as an ulcer in the mouth would be easy to find a remedy. But it is not so unless you ask the right questio...
June 19th
In the course of reading I found something that I believe puts a very different perspective on data management. We talk a lot about how real time fast retrieval based analytics reporting can be used to grow the business. The truth it that it is not always...
June 12th
Business people, not IT, make technology work to focus the business. The IT role is more strategic to maintain and improve competitive positions of the business infrastructure to make people’s lives easier, It is not the other way around. Ask any CIO, he ...
June 4th
This may be the best 10 minutes of essential information you can get to help you understand and pass your next creative leadership challenge. A question put by Dan Pink is, "if you reward something do you get more of the behavior you want and if you puni...
May 27th
I had some interesting exchanges recently that took me to a UK firm who specialize in data cleansing, I was reminded of a survey we did some time ago that asked the question, How do Business Intelligence solutions provide value?
Of the 86 replies the a...
May 21st
The Curfew still remains in force in Bangkok as clean up operations continue and order in the city and provinces is resorted. Even so headlines of last 2 days still show dangers are still present.
The Bangkok CentralWorld management just sent me by our...
May 20th
Here is some advice I got as a student. To make ends meet, I took a job selling wedding chest products. (Those old enough to remember may recall Carrigans, a boutique firm that sold a quality product range by referral based selling.
My sales coach at th...
May 19th
Tonight there is an eerie yellow feel in the city of angels with Bangkok now under a curfew . The only people on the streets are the army, police, authorized people and emergency services. The events of today that saw the protest rallies ended and leader...
May 17th
As I post this I am getting live reports via my Skype
I just heard that in in Rama 4 in Bangkok, four people have just been shot.
One is dead and three injured.
Since my post on Saturday I have been keeping it updated in the comments section ...
May 15th
Following last nights violence as I went for some breakfast nearby this morning, I was most disturbed at hearing a motor bike rider say he had just seen three people lying dead on the road near the rally zone. He said they been left unattended because no...
May 14th
In any business there is always demand and supply. But how does a New York Lawyer make any money out of handling mundane commodity service issues like parking. Yes you have to wonder? Read more about one that is ..http://www.performancecontroller.com/blo...
May 10th
In the wake of the Greek financial crisis in Europe, world stock markets, including the beleaguered US ones, last week had downslides. Late in the week Australian markets also dipped but they are all now bouncing back. A mate in the US I spoke to this mor...
May 7th
Do you like Pizza?. Well if you do and wanted to take advantage of a free offer you are to late, Last month saw a great deal that had markets buzzing. In a market research exercise last month about putting a brand and products to the test Yellow Pages in...
May 2nd
When flying a plane rapid real-time feedback with up-to-date information is vital. This relies on executive skill being able to read the instruments with on the ground teams to support them to get evaluate and pass on other key information for zenith to n...
April 22nd
In the context of the real value business intelligence, I recently had a discussion with Mike Plaxton, CEO at Krungthai AXA Life Insurance in Thailand. There I learned some practical things he planned with his team to increase momentum and sales effecti...
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