Security and liquidity are important issues in bond market. Now the financial crisis and the general uncertainty (due to the subprime crisis) have an impact in the market for covered bonds (so called Pfandbrief). Dealings of them have come to rest. In regular times securities traders generate their income from turnover – the more the [...]

Last week I discussed the four benefit criteria of innovation. This post will focus on the impact of “innovation speed”. But don’t forget: Innovation is not the general approach (in the sense of “one tool fits all”) to enter competition; when focusing on innovation your organization should consider issues like complexity, costs and strategy. But [...]

In my post last week I discussed innovation’s impact on corporate success. In the meantime I had a very interesting conversation with a student (business economics) related to innovation issues. The core of this conversation highlighted the character of innovation, the difference to inventions and the benefit aspects. So let us start with a definition [...]

Sometimes friends raise the question whether we would spend the entire weekend in front of our computers. Well, that is an interesting question. But a good friend did ask a more specific question: How many leisure times is left for you after writing blog posts and running your management portals? I think that this question [...]