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- Did Levi's use failed IT as a 'convenient scapegoat'?
- Several observers have suggested Levi Strauss used IT failure as an excuse to deflect attention away from deeper and more significant financial challenges. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Financial, Implementation, Information Technology, ERP, Levi Strauss, Software Deployment, Francine, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Ticking bombs in enterprise land
- I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...
- Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
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- Is your supply chain gonna kill you?
- Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...
- Tags: Supply Chain, International Financial Reporting Standards, Audit, Jason Busch, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- More, a lot more, on the Huron restatement
- Francine McKenna of Re: TheAuditors is possibly one of the best bloggers to cover the audit space. She gets deeper into independence and governance issues than anyone else I know. While I wrote a short piece on the impact of earnouts on the Huron crisis of...
- Tags: Stock, Huron, Investment, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?
- I hope that my good friend Vinnie Mirchandani doesn't take offense to the title of this post. PwC is his alma mater in a past life. However, events at Satyam in India, which have not received the attention they deserve in the US, have taken a decidedly weird or comic...
- Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Francine McKenna, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Bearing Point files for Ch.11 protection
- It's been a long time coming but Bearing Point finally succumbed to the mountain of acquisition fuelled debt it acquired between 1999-2002 and has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Per Reuters: As part of the prearranged plan, a $500 million senior secured credit facility will be replaced with...
- Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Bearing Point, Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Satyam fallout: Should customers stick? Full text of chairman's stunning letter
- Indian outsourcing company Satyam has cooked books, a $1 billion cash sink hole and its chairman and founder B Ramalinga Raju has fabricated figures. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has bailed on being an adviser to the company and shares of the firm were down 90 percent or so in premarket trading...
- Tags: Board, Satyam, Maytas, Task Force, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Satyam crashes with $1 billion cash hole
- In a shock announcement this morning, Satyam, India's fourth largest outsourcing companies reported that B Ramalinga Raju, founder and chairman has resigned following an admission that there is an estimated $1 billion cash hole in the company's balance sheet. The company's shares crashed 77% in the aftermath. According to Finextra:...
- Tags: Satyam, Balance Sheets, Outsourcing, Litigation, Asset Management, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Women and leadership
- Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...
- Tags: McKinsey & Co., Leadership, Men, Women, Leader, Personal Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- 14 ways IT screws up projects
- 14 ways IT screws up projects128k image?The image is 128k in size with 100dpi resolution. Why is that too big even on a dial-up connection? Thanks for your thoughts.# 15 - Play loose and fast with bandwidthAttach needlessly large images to blog posts. Make sure image's size is inversely...
- Tags: Strategy, Upper Management, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- EXCLUSIVE: Dish Network to me on $300 receiver demand to fire victim family
- Just a few minutes ago I received an email from Dish Network spokesperson Francie Bauer. Francine commented to me on the incident earlier this week in which a Dish Network customer service rep asked for $300 from the Azola family for a satellite dish receiver that had...
- Tags: Dish Network, Network, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw, Satellite, Tv & Home Theater
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- The wonderful land of Ogg
- Hello Bloggie:I have a question in respects to music files on a website. I have an MP3 song which I would to incorporate on one of my webpages and was wondering to which format I should convert it for it to be the smallest. I know midi files are...
- Tags: OGG, codec
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
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