I’ve just started reading ‘The Snowball’ the biography of Warren Buffett, ‘Oracle of Omaha’, written by Alice Schroeder. It’s difficult not to warm to a man who has such a down to earth approach to business and life. Who has an overwhelming desire to keep proving himself and who has a deep reverence for his father whom he felt the world had treated unjustly.
COA Solutions was very well represented last Thursday 30th October at the Sift Media Business Software Satisfaction Awards 2008 at the Brewery in London.
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Version One attended the glitzy DM Awards 2008 ceremony at The Tower Hotel in London last night and came away with yet another award in recognition of the company’s quality document management products.
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Two recent announcements from the SEC may start to breathe life into the XBRL initiative that is doing anything but delivering on the early promises of reduced cost, greater efficiency and improved accuracy.
Recessions have an upside. No longer are dinner parties dominated by people telling you how, by the simple reason of staying alive they have miraculously increased the value of their house, the flats in the city centre and the little ‘bolt hole’ in France.
In a HARDtalk interview broadcast on 2 September, Allan Little talks to private equity financier John Moulton.
I attended a very useful session yesterday run by the Cranfield University School of Management on ‘Marketing and Sales in a recession’. I was doubly interested as COA Solutions is running a similar event in September, only this time aimed at financial executives with a slightly more upbeat title, ‘How to prosper in a downturn’.
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Today Base Rate is 5%. So what? LIBOR (the rate Banks are supposed to lend to each other) is 6.0% for one year and a one year Gilt earns 4.6% p.a. Drawings by the Banks under the emergency funding scheme are at 4.6% - so who gets or pays Base Rate?
My colleague Glenn Hardy has written a piece for the Daily Telegraph Business Club which explains how Business Intelligence has widened and deepened into corporate performance management. You will have to register (it’s free) to read the article, but the Telegraph Business Club has enough in it to make it worthwhile.
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My youngest daughter has always had, what my wife and I would call, a tidy mind and what people with a less intimate familial connection describe as an obsessive compulsive disorder. While other young girls were badgering their parents for the latest Barbie or for the latest doll that performed all number of bodily functions, we were persuaded to buy her a Dymo printer.