Posts Tagged ‘risk’

Insurance Claim In

Wow! I finally managed to get an insurance claim in which I’ve been meaning to do for months and months. To be exact it’s for a luggage that got lost by British Airways for us in January 2007. That’s 13 months ago; but I finally managed to get all the...

Competitive Advantage through software

Sometimes, one way to leapfrog your competition is to choose software that outstrips the capabilities of your competitors. This can be relatively easy if you have an in-house development team, but is harder for companies who use off-the-shelf packages. And in these cases, it’s worth focusing on niche players to...

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

I came across a Wikipedia page on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing. Read these and tell me if they ring any bells: The network is reliable. Latency is zero. Bandwidth is infinite. The network is secure. Topology doesn’t change. There is one administrator. Transport cost is zero. The network is homogeneous. Great aren’t they? If you’ve worked in IT...

Managing Risk in an Unstable World

Came across an interesting article from the Harvard Business Review today called Managing Risk in an Unstable World. It talks about how one can analyse relative risks of foreign investments where conventional metrics like GDP per capita or economic growth just don’t cut it. It recommends assessing political risk as...

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