PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Business Process Management (BPM) through Process Mapping is a management technique which looks at business activities as a series of processes handling items of work. In understanding business activities as a series of processes it becomes possible to
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INDUSTRY VERTICALS
SwarmPoint's consultancy services server the following industry verticals:
Capital Markets
- Prime Brokerage
- Hedge Funds
- Equity Markets
- Fixed Income
- Asset Management
Functions
- Securities lending
- Order management
- Execution systems
- Swaps and other derivatives
- Client reporting
- Payment systems
- Cash management
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SWARMPOINT BLOG
Outsourcing
Outsourcing, the reallocation of tasks to a remote location, normally in a cheaper region, has been with us for over a hundred years in the textile industry but has also been growing in IT for nearly twenty years. It has been powered by the arbitrage between the living costs in countries with high costs of living (Over $3,000 per month) and locations where living costs are often below $1000 per mo
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Finance
After any serious hurt there is a call for immediate action in the political sphere. People look to politicians to protect them, and politicians are happy to encourage the notion. This rush to action overlooks the fact that even the management of the investment banks hadn't understood the situation in time to avert their own losses. They are all very capable, highly functioning individuals but wer
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ACH processing allows a business to receive money by directly debiting a consumer or business account directly using the accord number and bank sort code.
The consumer or business is protected from unauthorized debit by having the ability to dispute a payment at their bank for 60 days from the payment. For a period of 60 days during which the authorization of a payment can be disputed o
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ORGANIZATIONS
Project Management Institute
The Project Management Institute has an active New York chapter with regular meetings
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The Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement
The mission of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA) is to exercise the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, for the purpose of advancing the conceptual and implementation understanding of Enterprise Architecture.
They also provide a very useful printable copy of the framework.
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