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Merch

Merch

I was asked by my sister for advice on building a web e-commerce solution which set me thinking about if I could sell some “merch”. Here are my notes. …

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Corporate Intelligence

Corporate Intelligence

On corporate intelligence; sometimes one wants to know who owns what, and sometimes one needs to know how profitable a company is. I used to use due dil, but they want a shed load of money these days, not saying they are not worth it, but I am not paying that for personal curiosity although my professional interest may take me back. Here, as ever, are my notes on obtaining corporate intelligence.

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manifestly unfounded or excessive

manifestly unfounded or excessive

It seems some organisations have caught up with the ability to refuse a DSAR because the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. I am not sure where in the GDPR this was permitted, by which I mean, I don’t think it was. Here are some links.

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Corruption

Corruption

Sadly I have been looking to see what’s being said about Corruption and Anti-Corruption. Here are my links and notes. I have some links on management strategy, and some specifically on action plans inc. current advice from the MoJ. Interestingly, to me, the action plans share many ideas from risk management practices and IT Security controls that I have been working with for many years. In Apr 2021, I added some links on Transparency International’s Corruptions Perception Index. …

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Virtual Offices, for an occasional user

Virtual Offices, for an occasional user

I have been thinking about how to get time and space in an office in the city & the west end; most providers are interested in very high option prices i.e. they expect a high usage of desk space. This isn’t what I need but here are my notes … 

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Value Discipines

Value Discipines

I was thinking about business/IT strategy alignment and was reminded of the operational efficiency vs product excellence dichotomy that I have struggled with for years. I hadn’t realised it has one source, research by by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema. These theories came to be known as Value Disciplines and they included “customer intimacy” as a third value. The conclusion is that to win, you need to be best in class at one of the these values and good enough in the other two, lesson two is that you can’t be superlative in three and that doing it for two is hard. Otherwise, here are my notes and links. 

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Decorating the GDPR

Here is an image documenting the six data protection principles embedded in the GDPR. I made this using powerpoint and got the pictures from flickr. This page both established a URL and allows me to document the image credits and assert creative commons terms.

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Open Banking

Open Banking

I was pointed at the Open Banking Project and here are my notes,  it would seem that this is part of the regulators attempts to introduce more market pressures into retail finance.  The ODI page says,