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Business and IT staff at Europe's financial institutions want more emphasis placed on risk management, with just a quarter confident that their existing IT systems are capable of using stored data to provide a full analysis across all business units, according to research commissioned by Oracle.


The survey of 228 business professionals and 222 IT staff in financial institutions across Europe, conducted by Vanson Bourne, indicates that existing IT systems are unable to deliver what businesses
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Bad weather or even natural calamities do not affect every city in the world nor every resident of the affected area. Accidents, an inevitable part of some environments, do not affect all your people or totally devalue all your assets. Terrorist do not consider everyone a viable target nor are their actions likely to impact everyone over the course of their lives. The facts remain that only a small percentage of events or incidents resulting in loss of value or productivity will affect your busi

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Note: This was posted on my blog a couple of months ago, but I just joined here, and I think the message still applies...

The Issue

If you've heard me speak at a conference oranother event recently, you likely heard me say that in many important areas no one can predict the future.
So if you don't know whatwill happen, how can you prepare for it? The solution to this dilemma is that you don't have to predict future events in order to prepare for them.
We have a recent example with the Eyjafjallajo
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Social media guidance

Please find below links to interesting policy documents related to Social Media. These links have been compiled by Hilmar Nierop who kindly granted his permission to distribute them for your use.

These documents have informational value for all users of social media in various countries with their distinctive legal and communications culture. After all, the global use of social media has such an impact that it provides an international substance which reigns over local legal form(s), rules and r
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Based on latest data from BEA, BLS, Fed, Ontonix published an analysis early last week.Here were the main conclusions (based on data up to 2009 Q4)- This recovery is only marginally better than the last one in 2001- This recovery seems to be Export driven where as the last one appeared to be Import driven- There is still a lot of turbulence in the economy, in fact the amount of complexity (or turbulence) has increased nearly 75% since 2008 Q1- Interest rates might not have the same effect on fut
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Twenty-seven Inspiring Quotes about Life and the Current World’s Condition and Comments by Enrique Suarez

http://www.wix.com/suarezenrique/delta

suarezenrique@yahoo.com

 

1. "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Comment: very powerful message that applies 100% in my life when I am connected with my inner being and when I say that peace supersedes prosperity and not the other way around. When human beings know themselve

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