May 2009

How lawyers are leading the way

May 29, 2009 Innovation

It’s hard to believe and sometimes I have to pinch myself but lawyers are leading the way in adopting new ways of reaching their market, making themselves more efficient and recreating their business models. Don’t believe me? Check out Get A Life (or rather the re-runs on Ustream.) I don’t know how many attendees there [...]

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Three little piggies or we all fall down and then what?

May 26, 2009 Tax and Ethics

A couple of weeks ago Jim Peterson digitally urinated all over a piece in AccountancyAge about the Big Four and whether one would fall. In the process, he took a mild swing at Francine and my bet on the same topic. Jim is blunt and to the point. He says not if but when (as [...]

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PwC: follow the money

May 26, 2009 Featured

I’m a great believer that in unraveling any scandal that one should always follow the money. Earlier today, Francine McKenna took one heck of a swipe at PwC, accusing it inter alia of: 1) PwC is denying to its own partners the kind of work it’s getting ready to do for clients and the additional [...]

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Socio-collective financing

May 26, 2009 Innovation

As my round of calls to practitioners ended last Friday the consensus was that while business is tough, the impact is patchy. That fits with what Gary Turner said in comments to my post Can you see the brick wall? Even so, I’m not getting a sense of a canceling out over the whole of [...]

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Could broadband availability kill your cloud aspirations?

May 22, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Over the last few days I’ve been in conversation with practitioners suggesting to them that saas/on-demand/cloud computing offers a viable and valuable alternative to existing methods of reactive response in the current economic climate. I’m not selling anything but I am trying to gauge reactions. It never occurred to me that broadband availability might be [...]

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IFRS: you can say no

May 21, 2009 Tax and Ethics

Richard Murphy uses a Daily Telegraph report as the basis for suggesting that IASB has effectively thrown the principle of prudence out the window. I was surprised when I read the DT piece which asserts: Some believe the IFRS regime was the crucial factor that allowed banks to get out of control, overstating their profits, [...]

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My Diigo Bookmarks 05/21/2009

May 21, 2009 Asides

Flickr: joehowlett’s Photostream tags: no_tag Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Our poisoned DNA

May 21, 2009 Featured

Bill Sheridan has written a polemic about the generational differences and attitudes of baby boomers and Millennials. There they were, more than 100 Boomers and Gen Xers, rattling off every stereotype in the Millennial Handbook as if they were definitive characteristics of our youngest co-workers. And none of them were terribly flattering. But that wasn’t the [...]

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Can you see the brick wall?

May 20, 2009 Innovation

Last week while in London I was amazed to see Oxford Street as busy as I can ever remember, people hefting bags of high value branded shopping around, difficulty getting into certain restaurants i.e. business as usual. Yet at the same time I had an uneasy feeling that this is not reality. You know that [...]

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