In this podcast, join BearingPoint Senior Manager Andy Sanderson as he explores rogue trading and what can be done to stop it. Rogue trading is when an employee makes unauthorized trades on behalf of their company, often resulting in the loss of enormous amounts of money for that organization. This activity is often times hard to identify because the perpetrator is a legitimate employee and his actions will sometimes go unnoticed. Rogue Trading is actually very common, but it only hits the press when the company is well known and people come forward to announce the company’s losses.
The question that is most asked is, “How can we prevent it?” While rogue trading cannot be prevented, one can change the environment so that there is less incentive to engage in this act. In most organizations today, there is enough incentive to continue this type of trading because the proper controls have not been put into effect. An organization needs to be aware of activities that are outside of the norm and be knowledgeable of significant gains and losses. With the proper controls, a rogue trader can be identified and stopped before irreparable damage has occurred.
With most laws, there are ways ...
Join BearingPoint senior manager Randy Nease as he explores employee on-boarding and how it can be made easier for the new hire. Employee on-boarding begins when the new hire accepts a company’s offer, and continues all the way through setting their performance goals. In the midst of this, there ...
Now that GDC 2008 is behind us, and the reviews are really rolling in, PodTech takes a wide look at the gaming industry, with IDC gaming analyst Billy Pidgeon.
Gaming’s future likely includes more attention from the courts, as it continues to gain in mass popularity and ...
The Game Developers Conference is underway this week in San Francisco. The Reboot is dashing around to make sure you get the latest from the show. We’ll be posting a full report in our next episode. For now, check out this interview with Randy Stude of ...
Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.
Transforming the data ...
Andy Wright is owner of FalconEV, a company that distributes electric bikes and scooters that use lithium-ion batteries. He believes his products are the future of transportation. I spoke with him at the AltCar Expo in Santa Monica.
This is a cool service with a weird name: Utterz. At the CTIA show (mobile phone gadget show) I met Randy Corke, co-founder of the company making Utterz and we have a brief talk about it. It’s a microblogging tool that lets you call audio in from your cell ...
Broadband, connectivity, Wi-Fi, accessibility and education efforts are all priorities for the ongoing efforts in developing nations and regions around the globe. Intel, along with the United Nations and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), among others, is participating this month in the Connect Africa Summit, which aims to bring together human, ...
Join BearingPoint technologist and senior manager Andy Szuberla as he explores the evolution of disaster recovery plans and how different they are from 15 years ago. Now more then ever, disaster recovery (DR) is about organizational survival and not just technology recovery, but rather, the full recovery of business ...
Last week, I sat down with a group of bloggers including Brandy Schaffels of AutomotiveTraveler.com & AskPatty.com, C. Scott Miller of BIOConversion Blog, Donna Schwartz Mills of SoCal Mom, John O’Dell of Edmunds.com, Mark Durham of Autopia, Kristin Underwood of Treehugger and
Living a fresh and healthy lifestyle? Missing things like decadent candy? Here’s a recipe that will make you forget all about those high-fructose corn syrup-laden bars in their tacky plastic packaging. We’ve taken candy to a whole other place with the addition of powerful superfoods like maca, he shou wu, ... Grieg Coppe (managing partner, Accenture) continues his moderation of the discussion about the future of the Internet with Nick McKeown (professor, Stanford University), Andy Bechtolsheim and Phil McKinney (VP & CTO, Personal Systems Group, HP) during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit07. In part two, the topics ... From AlwaysOn Stanford Summit07, Grieg Coppe (managing partner, Accenture) asks Andy Bechtolsheim about the future of the Internet. After a brief recap of the Internet’s early days, we are quickly brought into Andy Bechtolsheim’s perspective of the larger picture. Is non-service provider connectivity to wireless access tomorrow’s Internet? ... ClickUni is an interesting service that gives university clubs and social groups the tools to manage their membership lists, events, newsletters and organizational network details. It is the brainchild of two Oxford University students David Langer, managing director, and Andy Young, techincal director. They were recently in Silicon Valley ... While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor talks with IBM’s Sandy Carter about IBM’s SOA education efforts. They talk about using Second Life, the Business Process Simulator game, and the IBM SOA Business Catalog. Knowledge@Wharton is the highly successful online publication of research and business analysis from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to spend sometime with Mukul Pandya, executive director and editor-in-chief, to find out more about the online publication. His articles have been published by ... After touring the GM LDT assembly plant, I spoke with Plant Manager Randy Thayer about what it takes to run an operation of this size. (Hint: it’s the people.) Alex Iskold, founder and CEO, and Andy Roth, chief quality officer of AdaptiveBlue, tell me about their browser plugin at the Supernova conference. Pretty cool way to hook into a bunch of Web 2.0 services. Sun Microsystems releases their new supercomputer, the Constellation System. Andy Bechtolsheim discusses the blade server platform. TechOne Episode 1 Special guests: Andy Beard, Michael Grey, Brian Provost, and Allen Stern. In this episode, Jason gets feedback on Mahalo from four formidable figures in the SEO industry; an industry that Mahalo aims to make irrelevant. Is reasoned debate possible in a roundtable with such polarized participants? Watch ... Dr. Andy Frank is faculty advisor to the Challenge X team, from UC Davis. While at the GM Proving Grounds for some of the event, I had the opportunity to speak with him about the event and the vehicle his students built for the competition. A ... The PIVMAN System by CoreStreet Ltd., consists of server software and handheld devices designed to allow authorized personnel the ability to control access to any site with confidence by quickly authenticating and validating the roles and identities of individuals wishing to enter an area. Humans understanding (or misunderstanding) other humans couldn’t be a bigger topic as the world gets smaller and the global population grows. One high school student looked at the abilities of elementary school children, from a mostly white community, to understand the facial expressions of other children of color. Brandy Buchanan ... On your next visit to the dentist, you might notice a computer monitor to the side of that ergonomic chair. That’s because software designed to manage a dental practice from companies like Dentrix is being used not only to automate the backoffice and billing functions, but provide assistance in ... Krishna Vedati, CEO, and Srinivas Mandyam, CTO of Plusmo, show me how their mobile portal lets you get a variety of services delivered right to your phone.Freshtopia.net - SuperCandy!
Will the Internet Still Be Here in 20 Years? Part Two
Will the Internet Still Be Here in 20 Years?
LunchMeet: ClickUni Manages Social Groups
Sandy Carter on IBM SOA Education, BPM Games, and the SOA Business Catalog
Mukul Pandya, Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge@Wharton
LDT Plant Manager Randy Thayer
Talking about AdaptiveBlue
TechOne Episode 1: Sun's New Constellation System
CalacanisCast beta 29
Andy Frank at Challenge X
CoreStreet PIVMAN Controls Access
Intel ISEF 2007: Ethnic Facial Expressions
High-Tech Dentists
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