Tuesday, 19 April 2011
The Strategy Hypercube
I have just found a really great article on a 'strategy hypercube' in banking and how it affects the profitability and relates to customers. Really amazing and very thoroughly done by Duncan A Robertson.
Alternative Vote
Nick Clegg interestingly apparently described AV as a 'grubby little compromise' but the Liberal party and Labour seem to be getting behind it. They seem to have got the wrong end of the stick from the last election.
The rhetoric states that we are being offered AV because we are unhappy with the voting system. The reason that no party won an outright victory at the last election was not due to the voting system and how fed up we were with it and wanted a change.
The reason was after the expenses scandal (duck ponds, moat cleaning and questionable viewing for ministers husbands), Iraq, the banking crisis and the subsequent recession the nation has no confidence in any of the political parties.
That is why we got the result that we got at the last election. It was a national protest vote at all the political parties and seems to have been equally distributed. No party won a majority and from all the calculations, an AV system would not have resolved the position of a coalition government. A coalition is probably the best solution at this time as it provides a level of bi partisan politics that would not be an option with an outright win for any political party and so necessitates the parties working together for the good of the country.
Also it seems that very few countries in the world have AV and those that do want to get rid of it. This hardly stands as a glowing endorsement of a voting system that we should be adopting in one of the longest standing democracies.
The rhetoric states that we are being offered AV because we are unhappy with the voting system. The reason that no party won an outright victory at the last election was not due to the voting system and how fed up we were with it and wanted a change.
The reason was after the expenses scandal (duck ponds, moat cleaning and questionable viewing for ministers husbands), Iraq, the banking crisis and the subsequent recession the nation has no confidence in any of the political parties.
That is why we got the result that we got at the last election. It was a national protest vote at all the political parties and seems to have been equally distributed. No party won a majority and from all the calculations, an AV system would not have resolved the position of a coalition government. A coalition is probably the best solution at this time as it provides a level of bi partisan politics that would not be an option with an outright win for any political party and so necessitates the parties working together for the good of the country.
Also it seems that very few countries in the world have AV and those that do want to get rid of it. This hardly stands as a glowing endorsement of a voting system that we should be adopting in one of the longest standing democracies.
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Strategy in Investment Banks
I am trawling through a whole mountain of documentation looking for the needle in the haystack. I am working towards doing my literary review for my dissertation and there is so little written on the subject. There is stuff written on IT strategy, Risk strategy etc. but corporate level strategy there seems to be very little written, did find an excellent piece by a lecturer at New York university. My lovely wife though just came up and gave me some food, what a great women she is. Well it is due in on the 14th so better get back to it!
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