Author: Rick Klau

Jeff Immelt talks to Knowledge @ Wharton about predictable revenue growth at G.E. (“We look at a recession as a great time to play offense.”), post-Enron accounting (“We’re all going to have to find ways to live in a world that has more transparency and disclosure.”) and decentralizing the organization ( plans to shift “backroom”…

New Windows could solve age-old puzzle. special report  Microsoft is tackling the long-elusive goal of easily finding information hidden in computer files, a conquest that would deal a blow to competitors but come at a price. [CNET News.com]

Andersen widens its search for a buyer. They’re busy: negotiating with the SEC to settle its potential liabilities as a result of Enron’s collapse, begging Deloitte, KPMG and E&Y to buy it… how do they have time to answer the calls from clients firing them? Here’s what’s interesting: the article claims (and I think the…

It worked! Following the instructions here, I imported all of my blogger posts into Radio 8. The only thing that took time was editing the internal links (links to previous posts) – which only took an hour or so. Next up – playing with the template to tweak it just so… Adios, blogger.

Testing to see if the import of my Blogger posts worked…

I will be transitioning away from blogger.com to Userland’s Radio application by week’s end. I had high hopes for Blogger’s ability to serve as a web-based front-end to this site, but in the end the inability of the company to handle their own growth has proven problematic. I haven’t had reliable access to the site…

Arthur Andersen Is Said to Be Near a Sale to a Rival. No surprise, the biggest issue remains how DT can assume Andersen’s assets without also assuming its liabilities:In addition to confronting potential fines from criminal charges, Andersen is also facing possible regulatory action by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as myriad lawsuits…

Ernie the Attorney is another lawyer/blogger who posted this quote earlier in the week: It’s more likely that attorneys, judges and paralegals don’t know how to use the technology, or have limited interest in learning how to use new tools for old jobs. And as for attorneys, this is more true of defense lawyers, sadly…

A report from HBS Working Knowledge titled Customers & Services: The Customer Knows Best? Better Think Again suggests that customers aren’t always the best guide for innovation. The report is an excerpt from a Harvard Business Review article published in January, and seems to be in the Clayton Christensen school of thought (Christensen wrote The…

Today’s Recorder (a San Francisco legal publication) reports on Cisco’s System – that is, the system set up by its new General Counsel, Mark Chandler to manage and leverage his outside counsel. A couple years ago when Mark was an assistant GC at Cisco, he and I were speakers at an American Management Association seminar.…