Archive for November 13th, 2006

Upgrading dilemma

How can you frustrate your long term customers? There are a lot of ideas in the market to do this, but I did not expect such a surprise from this particular company. My desktop is Windows 2000 workstation. Everything (all drivers, programs, hardware) works fine together. We use Norton Internet Security to have a certain [...]

Strategy and risk management

Often I receive questions concerning interdependencies between strategy and risk management. There is no general answer but at the end of the day we have to accept that our strategic decisions (as well those measures without a decision) have an impact on the firm’s risk situation. For banks in Europe it has become a little [...]