I have had to think about this too much over the last year; and it keeps coming. Here are my notes, mainly about, Boris Johnson as PM & Mayor of London and the Nolan Principles. … Continue reading “Misconduct in a Public Office”
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. Continue reading “Corporate Intelligence”
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. Continue reading “manifestly unfounded or excessive”
It is well understood that the post brexit trade deal excludes services including financial services, what does this mean? Here are my notes, which I converted into a piece on linkedin … Continue reading “Brexit & the City”
Cross Cultural Management, is this such a thing? Here are my links and notes … Continue reading “Cross Cultural Management”
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. … Continue reading “Corruption”
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 … Continue reading “Virtual Offices, for an occasional user”
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. Continue reading “Value Discipines”
I was looking for a DSAR template, but couldn’t find anything for free, except the ICO page. So I made one, here are my notes, or will be … Continue reading “Data Subject Access Requests”
I read Marc Armstrong’s academic paper Open Access to Research and wanted to make a commentary on my blog. Here are my notes, Continue reading “Open access to research”
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.
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, Continue reading “Open Banking”
I used diigo to make some notes on MIFID II. I have transcribed those notes to this wiki. Continue reading “On MiFID II”
This page is not a request for donations; I am considering how to set up Pay Pal collections for others. This seems easier than one might expect. A three stage process mainly managed by Pay Pal. Open a non-profit account, use pay pal’s tools to generate the HTML, include it in your web page. Bosh! Loadsamoney, well, maybe not. Continue reading “Donating via Pay Pal”
I have been aware of this important insight into team management and motivation for years, but I need to use it as part of a presentation I am building. I say,
Strong Teams are based on a balanced blend of imperfect players.
And I found these links
