As a business consultant, I was constantly confronted with clients who had made a significant investment in a systems management framework application, such as HP OpenView or CA Unicenter, and were struggling with how to deploy the technology in order to receive the benefits of the substantial investment they had made. In most cases, they were [...]
I found a really interesting site during my morning review of financial news. I regularly review the Financial Times website at ft.com. On there they have a link to the MBA GYM. This is a free service of ft.com where you create an account and can test your knowledge on subjects like corporate social responsibility, [...]
What a week we just had on Wall Street. I believe I speak for a lot of people when I say, in my lifetime, I never thought I would see some of the chaos that ensued last week on Wall Street. One event that brought a lot of attention to itself; the hastily assembled deal [...]
Before we talk about what a Mortgage Backed Security is one should understand what a security is in the financial world. In finance, a security is a fungible, negotiable instrument that represents some value. The notion of being fungible means that individual units of the underlying good or commodity are substitutable. So, in the financial [...]
