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Mervyns â€" The cautionary tale of selling one’s business

Too Many Cooks Spoil the Livelihoods of Thousands BusinessWeek (12/6/2008) did a great job of dissecting of what went wrong in the collapse of U. S. retailer, Mervyns (see "What Have You Done to My Company"). The subtitle of the story pretty much sums up the...

Tags: Private Equity, Private Equity Company, Firm, Mervyns, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Why Do Private Equity Firms Underachieve Their Planned ROI?

This paper has made the point that private equity firms have a tendency to overplan but under-execute their value-creation activities. Optimists will chalk this up to human nature. Investors who are the customers of private equity firms, however, have aggressive expectations. Any results that are below the targeted ROI will...

Tags: Private Equity, Private Equity Company, Investment, Financial Services, Finance

White papers 2008-09-01

IBM could be acquisition target for private equity firms

IBM, the worlds largest computer and IT services company, could become an acquisition target for private equity firms said Steve Bengston, managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr Bengston was speaking at a recent lunch panel on trends and predictions for 2007 organized by FountainBlue. Also on the panel was Fred Greguras,...

Tags: Trend watch, IBM, private equity company, private equity

Blog posts 2007-01-22

The Carlyle Group Cuts Costs, Increases Productivity With E-Mail - Filtering Service

The Carlyle Group is a global, private equity firm with 25 offices and 650 employees. The firm currently has U.S.$39 billion in committed capital, making it one of the largest private equity firms in the world. During the past several years, some of the firm's senior managers had become plagued...

Tags: Private Equity, Private Equity Company, Firm, e-Mail Message, Microsoft Corp., Carlyle Group, E-mail, Investment, Financial Services, Online Communications, Finance

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Let's do this now, why wait?

Okay that makes no sense at allThe people paying the energy bills for these buildings aren't the same people who would benefit from preserving the status quo.Perhaps he'd get more traction if he changed his company to a non profit staffed 100% with non paid volunteers that wrote and gave...

Tags: Vertical industries, Investment, government

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Xerox buys ACS; Makes its big services bet

Updated: Xerox said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services in a cash and stock deal valued at $6.4 billion. The move is a big bet to transform Xerox into a services company that does everything from collecting tolls and installing government systems to retooling business processes and information technology...

Tags: Xerox Corp., ACS, Chances, Document Management, Operational Planning, Managerial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Managed Hosting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-28

TIBCO and SAP: place your bets

Yesterday, Larry Dignan asked my opinion of persistent rumors that SAP is in the middle of taking a tilt at acquiring TIBCO. I rolled my digital eyeballs. How many times has this one gone around the block? As Brian Sommer yelled: ONCE A POTENTIAL ACQUISITION IS PASSED ON, IT...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., SAP AG, Brian, Public Relations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Virgin Galactic unveils Eve; Snares Abu Dhabi investment

Sir Richard Branson unveiled his latest aircraft, or rather spacecraft. In a few years, for $200,000, thrill seekers will be able to ride into sub-orbit space. Separately, Virgin Galactic landed a $280 million investment from Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments. In this raw video, you get a look at...

Tags: Virgin Group, Investment, Virgin Galactic, Aabar Investments, Business Structures, Aerospace & Defense, Network Technology, Finance, Manufacturing, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?

Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?No.Govt. sponsored research is only a big edge for products where the government is the customer (nuclear bombs, stealth jets, tanks, etc.)When the market decides that green products and tech is desirable, then a market with less government baggage will produce...

Tags: COMPANIES, green technology, government

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

U.S. CTO: Infrastructure growth needs private sector investment

The technology backbone of the United States needs a major overhaul and government alone can't do it, the nation's first chief technology officer said today. It's going to take a cooperative effort, including a massive influx of "hundreds of billions" of private capital dollars, for the U.S. to catch up...

Tags: Innovation, U.S., Investment, Government, Leadership, Vertical Industries, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-11

eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPO

EBay will recoup some of its losses on Skype via an initial public offering. Or at least that's what the online auctioneer is hoping.  In a statement, eBay seems to have given its reply to the buyback plans of Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-14

eBay starts undoing bad acquisitions: Sets StumbleUpon free

StumbleUpon is a startup again as the original founders and a few well-heeled investors bought it back from eBay. The next question: When will Skype leave the eBay fold? In a statement blog, StumbleUpon said its two year run as a subsidiary of eBay is over. StumbleUpon founders...

Tags: Acquisition, Skype Technologies S.A., StumbleUpon, eBay Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Technology, Corporate Law, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-13

Confusion and controversy continue at Satyam

Satyam, the Indian outsourcing company at the center of a massive fraud investigation continues to be mired in confusion and controversy. Earlier in the week, the company's former CFO appeared to give two PricewaterhouseCoopers audit partners a pass, saying: ...that auditors S Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Litigation, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Finance, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Satyam, IBM - Layoffs, Acquisitions, Rumors

Moving deck chairs around the globe According to today's Wall Street Journal, IBM is going to do some blood-letting. About 5,000 U.S. employees may get the axe. The company has approximately 400,000 employees globally but, more importantly, the firm continues to expand its ranks in non-U.S. markets....

Tags: Acquisition, Layoff, Satyam, IBM Corp., Workforce Management, Corporate Governance, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-26

Spotlight on Austin: BuzzStream's Paul May

Even though South by Southwest Interactive SXSWi ended yesterday, I have one more installment of my Spotlight on Austin series. Next up is Paul May, CEO and co-founder of BuzzStream, a company that makes tracking and managing and promoting links a lot easier for Internet marketers. BuzzStream, the youngest company...

Tags: Austin, Social Media, Tool, BuzzStream, Public Relations, Productivity, Marketing Research, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-03-18

IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herring

Someone has floated a trial balloon, through a leak to the Wall Street Journal, that IBM is in "talks" to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion. The only party that would leak this information is Sun itself, and it smacks of desperation in trying to thwart an unwanted acquisition, or...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Nope, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Think Infor is only in maintenance mode? Think again

Infor is one of those vendors I'd pretty much written off as a company that might be interesting. Rolling up a rag bag of distressed software vendors is not my idea of innovation but of financial engineering where you usually have to carefully watch the bang per buck coming out...

Tags: Financial, Environment, SOA, Infor Global Solutions, Infor, Lock-in, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Satyam: resignations, appointments and YouTube videos

When we last reported on the $1 billion fraud scandal at Satyam Computer Services in India, brothers Ramaling and Rama Raju, former chairman and former managing director and CEO, respectively, had been arrested and the full board of directors had been let go. Today, that new...

Tags: Board, Satyam, YouTube Video, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-27

5 tips to reduce outsourcing risk

5 tips to reduce outsourcing riskOutsourcing is unpatriotic ntntMost important tip to reducing outsourcing riskOutsource to US companies!RE: 5 tips to reduce outsourcing riskI can give 1 good tip for reducing the risk, DO NOT OUT SOURCE, why put your companies valuableassets at risk to save a few bucks, you...

Tags: Managed hosting, outsourcing, outsourcing risk, offshoring

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Bucking the trend, handful of open source players attract VC funding

Venture capital spending is down eight percent nationally yet a number of open source companies have scored big funding wins as of late. Talend, which develops open source data integration software including Open Studio, this week announced it secured $12 million from investors Balderton Capital,...

Tags: Software, Venture Capital, Open Source, Finance, Financing Startups, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-01-27