Disaster recovery and business continuity define how an organization responds to a cyber security incident or any other event that causes the loss of operations or data by the time they are reported. According to companies like Fortinet, these programs provide business continuity, information protection, disaster recovery and business continuity, accounting and controls consolidate the […]

Render unto Facebook…

With Mark Zuckerberg testifying in front of Congress today, we can expect lots of rhetoric. We have a privacy problem that is bigger than Facebook. There is real value in the platform that I don’t want to walk away from, yet I also do not want to keep unwittingly feeding data to a company that […]

Collecting your Diary

A couple of things conspired to make me think it was time to make sure that I’m capturing and keeping my own data.  I’ve been keeping a self hosted WordPress site for many years, but frankly, rarely update it.  I tend to think of it as appropriate for long form writing with no actual audience.  […]

When is a $5M fine not much of a deterent?

So if I remember correctly, Morgan Stanley decided to increase the IPO at the 11th hour. Lots of concerns at the time that the growth wouldn’t support the valuation, but the problem was, the private equity market had already been completely invested and had driven up even higher than that. So do you let the […]

Social Photography

I downloaded the Facebook camera app today and was impressed. It is clean and fast.  I had found the actual Facebook app for the iPhone and iPad to be pretty confusing. This app is a dramatic improvement. Rather than try to be all things Facebook, this app focuses on pictures being shared by your friends […]

The Old Church

It snowed yesterday, so I thought that would give me a good opportunity to go out and experiment with some HDR and other processing techniques for expanded range.  I thought that the combination of the snow and the textures of the old church would work well. I am a Deacon at Newtown Presbyterian Church.  Our […]

Using portals for supply chain agility

I got a note from a former colleague, Bob Foster, asking me to take a look at a recent blog post that he’d written.  Knowing how hard it is to get good conversations going, I was happy to oblige. Bob wrote a post “Optimizing the Service Supply Chain using Portals”.  I read through his post, […]

I don’t mind saying I’m worried

Two things have happened over the last couple of weeks that really got my attention.  The first was someone in Greece hacking into my PayPal account which caused $200 to be pulled out of my bank account. I hadn’t really given much thought to having my bank account tied to Paypal. The incident got me […]

Why are Google’s commercial systems so bad?

I have just been rejected for a Google program that they invited me to join, I wanted to join, and my participation would have made them money.   They called me at odd hours to validate, I returned their calls, left voice mails, but then they said that I didn’t respond and rejected me.  A powerfully […]

Mentoring

I was honored to participate as part of a panel on mentoring as part of the Lehigh MBA day program. My fellow panelists were Christopher Greene, from Brocade and Anthony Durante, from B.Braun.  Both had very different experiences from each other, as well as, from my own.  Christopher started as a classical musician, which has […]