Deloitte

Deloitte: welcome to the machine

August 20, 2009 Featured

Francine McKenna has done a bang up job analyzing the problems Deloitte faces as it moves into the busy season. As I read through the (long) post, I couldn’t help but feeling increasingly sorry for those left to crank out those 50-hour BILLABLE weeks – as confirmed by many commenters – and the veiled threat [...]

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Twinfield adds XBRL, snags Deloitte

February 23, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Twinfield was the first saas vendor I looked at in any depth but for whatever reason, I’m darned if I can find the in depth review I conducted Here is the review I conducted some three and a half-ish years ago. Since then, Twinfield has progressed steadily and now boasts 29,853 paying customers, most of [...]

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Crack cocaine economics and six ways to get off it

September 2, 2008 General

This amusing talk by economist Steven Levitt, filmed at TED Talks shows what it is like being at different points in the crack cocaine gang hierarchy. He makes the comparison between the org structure of a modern enterprise and that of the gang, noting many similarities. The final slide (see illustration) has particular potency. As [...]

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