Tom Raftery

The shape of the 21st Century Audit

November 2, 2009 Innovation

Super long post alert In the ‘who’s going to fail first’ debate that’s been going on seemingly forever on this blog it occurred to me that Francine McKenna is right. It’s moot. I’m coming around to Jim Peterson’s theme: Which audit firm is next to fail is a moot question. It’s going to happen sooner [...]

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The business card problem

November 1, 2009 Innovation

Courtesy of Mark Lee’s Tweet: @BradBurton: Also strangers who thrust biz cards in my hand. They need to understand: No one refers work to a biz card: http://bit.ly/6hCb2 I came across his old post from March 2008 where he says (use the bit.ly link above): I learned long ago never to be a card shover. [...]

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Saas as a sustainability play

July 17, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The other day I had a quickfire Twitter conversation with Tom Raftery, Greenmonk’s sustainability analyst. He was saying he’d not seen evidence of the impact of green data centres. I’m on the fence regarding the global warming stuff but that doesn’t mean we should ignore the obvious imperative to conserve resources. This is one of [...]

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Even the Irish have had enough of PwC

February 16, 2009 General

Ireland is one of Richard Murphy’s favourite punchbags – most recently talking about the parlous state of their banking system. My friend Tom Raftery who decamped to Sevilla last year recently said Ireland is in such a state that house prices could decline 80%. Wow. This morning, John McManus of the Irish Times has a [...]

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