Category Archives: Governance

July 24, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Governance, IT, Strategy 2 Comments

Corporate reinvention

By Ben Kepes

Mauricio posted about Foldera’s metamorphosis from a developer of web-based collaboration tools into one that creates "high speed, high density carrier grade Ethernet switches" (whatever those are!) Hmmmm – well I see the crossover there – one is physical, one virtual. One hardware, one software – come to think of

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July 13, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Governance, IT, Strategy 2 Comments

Google on shaky ground?

By Ben Kepes

Kaila bought my attention to a Silicon Alley post that is a pretty stark assertion about Google. It seems an anonymous Silicon Valley insider claims that it’s not just Yahoo with significant internal strife, he claims Microsoft, eBay and Google also have problems. He is quoted as saying; Google’s a

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July 2, 2008 Posted in Business, Governance, IT, New business, Strategy Leave a comment

IPO – Why would you?

By Ben Kepes

Over on RWW, Bernard posted about the recent VC round for LinkedIn that gave it a $1bill valuation and some serious cash to play with. In his post, Bernard commented on the dearth of IPOs happening currently and asked what the issue was. Bernard asks; Why has the public market

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June 27, 2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, IT, Strategy 4 Comments

Low risk plays provide no differentiation

By The Unreasonablemen

A guest  post from the Unreasonablemen.net This might be obvious but I see it time and time again. Old world companies are so fixated on risk that they are going nowhere. Old world companies behaviour can be characterised by panic, followed by engaging consultants and outsourcing to drive down cost

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June 13, 2008 Posted in Business, Governance, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 4 Comments

Xero annual report released

By Ben Kepes

Xero has just released its annual report to the NZX. In the chairman’s and CEO’s report the highlight; Over 200 customers in the UK as at 10 May 2008/2009 focus will be on sales and marketing and business partnerships in UK Focus on an Australian entry 2008/2009 Features soon to

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June 4, 2008 Posted in Economic Development, Governance, New Zealand, Society Leave a comment

Regulatory responsibility – and unintended consequences…

By Ben Kepes

News this morning that the parliamentary bill by Rodney Hide calling for a more responsible viewpoint when enacting legislation has been dumped. Hide’s bill sought to minimise the unintended consequences of regulation, and remove some of the red tape hampering our economic transformation. We live in a super-regulated society and

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May 29, 2008 Posted in Design, Efficiency, Governance, IT, SaaS, Strategy 2 Comments

Bad analysis – SaaS and ISVs

By Ben Kepes

ITPro posted this badly titled out article “Software as a service hits a glitch”. In it author Stephen Pritchard confuses SaaS en masse with SaaS delivered by traditional enterprise service vendors. He rightly states that; The problem for SAP – and for other enterprise software vendors looking for a share

May 15, 2008 Posted in Economic Development, Efficiency, Governance, New Zealand, Society Leave a comment

What place Government?

By Ben Kepes

Warning – here follows a rant not at all related to my usual subject matter! We’ve seen some governmental debacles in the last few days. Firstly the New Zealand taxpayer agreed (or their representatives did anyway) to buy the rail network back off Toll holdings. Bear in mind that this

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May 14, 2008 Posted in Efficiency, Governance, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 5 Comments

Xero year end results…

By Ben Kepes

Hot of the press are the Xero year end (at 31 March 2008) financial reports. Key highlights include (with my comments in italics); Revenue from subscriptions of $134,000 less than expected – key will be the figures to the end of May 2008 – projected  revenue from the prospectus is

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May 14, 2008 Posted in Governance, Strategy Leave a comment

On why Facebook borrowed to buy hardware

By Ben Kepes

Yesterday I queried the Facebook strategy of owning it’s own datacentre infrastructrue – especially given it’s (hoped for) growth and the prevalence of other scalable, cloud based third party hosting solutions. Henry Blodget asks another question in this post this morning. The main thrust of his post is that the

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