October 8, 2013
Ideas are worth sharing. This week’s post is inspired by two recent events; a great post on LinkedIn and a conversation with a great friend and great thinker over lunch about why it pays to share ideas. Over a recent lunch with one of the great thinkers in and around the Financial Services business, Simon […]
September 30, 2013
This is a sequel to earlier posts on “Unacceptable Excuses for Not Getting the Job Done”. It’s about big places and what a wise and great old friend, Chris Kundro, aptly titled Big Place BS. The post is inspired by a frustrating experience and my own inability to usher an important process along as fast […]
September 12, 2013
Jamie Dimon has been wishing the Whale problem would simply go away. He has put up a fair defence, rightly pointing out that no clients were harmed and the problem was the bank’s own stupid fault. As admirable as his stance is, three are two aspects of this case that are going to lead to […]
September 4, 2013
Some weeks ago a superb picture was posted here on LinkedIn that inspired me. It is a really catchy way of capturing the three qualities that matter to me in my consulting work. 3CAdvisory is about Control, Capacity & Cost. I believe you can align all three of those things. There is a right way […]
August 14, 2013
The London Whale. That story is not going away and the latest revelations have something in common with the recent LIBOR shenanigans; people pressured into doing the wrong thing. JP Morgan’s problems occurred in the London office of their CIO, the Chief Investment Officer. It seems that some of the highest paid people in the […]
August 8, 2013
The staple diet of the Operations professional is reconciliations. Other terms might be used, such as exception management or non-STP, however under the hood it is all about reconciliation; what did we expect to happen or be the case, the plan and what actually happened or is the case. It is those reconciliations that ensure […]