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Steve Forbes versus Alan Greenspan, Round One

So yesterday we had Alan Greenspan in the morning at the BAI Retail Delivery Show.    Caesar’s Palace if they were put in the ring together so I guess they don’t like each other very much. Forbes, who is chairing Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the Presidential office this year, was outspoken and funny.  His role…

Steve Forbes versus Alan Greenspan, Round One

So yesterday we had Alan Greenspan in the morning at the BAI Retail Delivery Show.    Caesar’s Palace if they were put in the ring together so I guess they don’t like each other very much. Forbes, who is chairing Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the Presidential office this year, was outspoken and funny.  His role…

Steve Forbes versus Alan Greenspan, Round One

So yesterday we had Alan Greenspan in the morning at the BAI Retail Delivery Show.    Caesar’s Palace if they were put in the ring together so I guess they don’t like each other very much. Forbes, who is chairing Rudy Giuliani’s campaign for the Presidential office this year, was outspoken and funny.  His role…

Hacking into social networks

Fascinating report in today’s Forbes around social networks being easy fodder for hackers and therefore criminals.  The firms at stake include everyone from Google through Facebook, and it is all due to the fact that the more open these communities become for developers to provide common applications, the more flawed they become to vulnerabilities.  Here’s…

Hacking into social networks

Fascinating report in today’s Forbes around social networks being easy fodder for hackers and therefore criminals.  The firms at stake include everyone from Google through Facebook, and it is all due to the fact that the more open these communities become for developers to provide common applications, the more flawed they become to vulnerabilities.  Here’s…

Beware the e-bomb

As many know, I’m a great fan of science fiction and the future.  So I get an email today from Forbes where Arthur C. Clarke has given his vision of 2500 A.D.  It’s an interesting story, not a new one in some ways, about the biggest danger to the planet being an e-bomb.  An e-bomb…

Forget branch transformation – spend a few dollars on people

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in numbers.  By way of example, there are 39,000 Elvis Presley…

Forget branch transformation – spend a few dollars on people

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in numbers.  By way of example, there are 39,000 Elvis Presley…

Forget branch transformation – spend a few dollars on people

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in numbers.  By way of example, there are 39,000 Elvis Presley…

Google Maps Mash-Up

When I first saw Google Maps I thought at the time this would be a good thing for me and my kids to discuss the news, where everything was and what is going on where. What is happening now is to cut me out of the process – even my kids can now instantly see…

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