This year has started similarly to last with plenty on the airwaves about disruption and the need for innovation and THE strategy before someone else creates a category killer.

The truth is, for every new strategy success story, there is a mountain of non-success stories. Not failures, just failures to come up with THE killer strategy so you become one of those organisations everyone uses as an example of innovation and disruption.

Also, most organisations are not being disrupted as fast and as ro

PowerCenter architecture is based on client-server model. It consists of PowerCenter server and PowerCenter client tools. Below is a list of all of the components that are part of the PowerCenter architecture.

Informatica PowerCenter Domain

In its simple terms, Domain can be defined as an environment. You will have a PowerCenter domain for each               environment. For example, if you have Development, Test and Production environments, you essentially create 3 different domains — one for eac

According to a recent study, online security for most people is too bothersome. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology published the study, which shows that most people who use the internet have just given up and don’t follow the advice given to them about online security.

The result of this is that consumers are engaging in risky online behavior, and according to one survey participant, if “something happens, it is going to happen” and “it is not the end of the world.”

This is conc

You Only Have 25,550 Days of Average Life to Live

Published on Jun 24, 2014

Source: Words of Peace via YouTube

How many days does the average person live? This video addresses the topic with humor, surprise and poignancy, combining infographic-style motion graphics with excerpts from Prem Rawat's talks and "man-on-the-street" interviews.

Watch the YouTube video in the following link below:

25,550 Days of Average Life to Live

Couple of weeks ago I was very fortunate to get to Malta and host one of the roundtables during the FERMA risk seminar. I am very thankful for the opportunity because the experience of brainstorming for 45 mins with the representatives from various small and medium enterprises (SMEs) really highlighted some major problems with modern day risk management and risk managers.

Here are three things that I think all of us could learn from managing risk at SMEs:

A. SMEs simply can't afford to waste time

If you have a cell phone, and you use it in any way associated with accessing online accounts (and many do), you are putting yourself at risk of getting hacked. With only a phone number and a bit of information, which is easy to get through social engineering, a hacker can break into your personal and financial accounts.

This works by getting information about you, such as your birthday, address, or even the last four digits of your Social Security number…information that is readily available…and

Dear Global Risk Community member

Join us at our new webinar https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/8271/236353     "Cyber Wack-a-mole It is not a game".

Chasing and fixing cyber threats can be depressing, rather like the old 'wack-a-mole' game. No matter how quick you are in knocking down the threat, or mole, new ones appear. We will present a strategy to break the cycle. 

You will still need to fight the cyber threats but you will have a way to become proactive and not be easy prey for the cyber

Business Model Innovation Presentation: The New Trigger for Great Startups

Source: SlideShare featuring David Skok, General Partner at Matrix Partners

Unlike the past where technology innovation was the primary driver of startup creation, in the last ten years, it has frequently been innovation in new business models that has caused the disruption to create the opening for new companies. This presentation by David Skok of Matrix Partners looks in depth at the key business model changes that are ca

Customer Acquisition & Monetization - Keys to your Business Model

Source: Slide Share featuring David Skok, General Partner at Matrix Partners

Presentation describing how Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC) and Monetization (LTV) are they key elements to get right for a successful business model. Also describes the latest techniques for reducing CAC, including Inbound Marketing, and the author's own methodology: Building a Sales & Marketing Machine.

You can download the presentation in the below lin

Recently I was speaking to someone who works as a back-office advisor in one of the big global banks. We were talking about the challenge the back-office often has in getting their point across to the “producers” in organisations. He said the nickname for his team members is BPOs which is an acronym for Business Prevention Officer. Oh, why do they dislike us so?

He then went on to say that the bank was fined last year for doing deals remarkably similar to the deals they were previously fined for

Martin Luther King's Pearl Of Wisdom!

Published on Jan 13, 2017

Source: Slide Share

Assassinated on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered for exemplary civil work and of course his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. King was a Baptist minister and an activist leader in the Civil Right Movements. He got into college at age 15, held a PhD, received a Nobel Peace Prize and there is a holiday kept in his honor. He was arrested 29 times and was the target of several assassination attempts. He f

Globalization and Social Inequality: Obscene Wealth of Eight Mega-Billionaires

Designing the Future by Applying System Dynamics Thinking

Presentation Based on the Work of Founder Dr. Jay W. Forrester

Understanding System Behavior by Identifying System Structure

Systems in Technology and Society

• Everyone speaks of systems: computer systems, air traffic control systems, economic systems, and social systems. However, few people realize that systems exist everywhere. Systems influence everything we do. Systems create the puzzling difficulties that confront us every day.

•Understa

A new book has just been released, that will the world of risk "outside-in."

The Uncertainty Advantage (Leadership lessons for turning risk outside-in) is written by Gary S. Lynch, a career expert in risk management and related topics. Lynch's latest book (his third) describes the process of turning uncertainty into market advantage. As he points out, risk cannot truly be managed. However, uncertainty can be navigated by organizational leaders to create situations advantageous to the organization

The Real Purpose of Business: Four Presentations

By:

Enrique Suarez

"The key problem in the American business world today is that we've lost sight of what business is all about. We think it's about accumulating financial wealth and shareholder value, but the fundamental purpose of business, going back thousands of years in human experience, is to meet human economic needs by cultivating creative human talent."

Portland State University professor Tom Johnson

“The way society is organized is due to the

Fake news is a problem that is taking the internet by storm, and it ran rampant during the 2016 Presidential Election. In fact, many believe that fake news stories had a strong impact on the outcome of the election. In a survey following the election by the Pew Research Center, a whopping 64 percent of polled Americans said that fake news has given them a “great deal of confusion” about current events.

All of us have been fooled by fake news, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, anytime soon

“Fake News”: The Latest Weapon in Information Space

By Tony Cartalucci

Global Research, January 16, 2017

The ability for technology and innovations to transform global economics and geopolitics is often underestimated, even sidelined in retrospect.

However, from the technological achievements that gave the British Empire mastery over the seas, to the industrial revolution that eventually disrupted and unraveled the empire’s carefully constructed global system of mercantilism, the march of technolog

Introduction to the Sales and Marketing Machine

Source:

David Skok

for Entrepreneurs

Building a Sales and Marketing Machine is a structured methodology for designing and reviewing your customer acquisition process. It stresses the idea that the only right way to build a sales and marketing process is to design it around your customers (customer-centric). Although this is obvious, it turns out to be radically different to the way most companies have designed their processes, which is based on what th

Think about hackers breaking into accounts. If you think they need top-notch computer skills, you would be wrong. These days, instead of requiring skills behind a keyboard, hackers generally rely on strategy…specifically a strategy called social engineering. This means that hackers don’t have to be technical, but they DO have to be clever and crafty because they are essentially taking advantage of people and “tricking” them into giving information.

There are four main ways that hackers use social