Does your management information come from databases? Do you employ analysts to “mine” the data? It’s amazing, you can slice and dice the data any which way you like; changing reports on a daily basis, creating pages and pages of beautiful graphs, comment and analysis, showing what a great job you are doing. Or, instead […]
Need Another Drink
E&J Gallo, the Californian winery has been caught in a scam, a 7 million euro scam. A group of wine producers from the Languedoc region have passed off 18 million bottles of plonk as Pinot Noir. This has been bottled and sold under Gallo’s “Red Bicyclette Pinot Noir Single Grape Wine” brand. The fraud came […]
Dogmatic Ignorance
I had an interesting conversation today with an auditor. I asked him why auditors don’t see the blindingly obvious, why they don’t dig into problems, why they are so easily hoodwinked, (go on, admit it, you have pulled the wool over an auditors eyes), why they are, frankly, so stupid. I didn’t put it quite […]
Excuses, Excuses
Are you frustrated by the lack of resources to do your job properly? Too much to do in too little time? No people, no budget and no systems to help you? If only you could just get the enhancement or extra head that you need everything would be OK, wouldn’t it? The problem is that […]
Mad Business Rules
There are plenty of examples of mad business rules. According to Sky News, the supermarket chain Asda refused to sell a 44-year-old mother alcohol because she was shopping with her teenage son. The supermarket chain went on to admit that its tough alcohol sales policy may “seem mad”. It does seem mad, on a number […]
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