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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CODING PHILOSOPHY
A balanced coding philosophy needs to be able to create great products which delight end customers as well as realizing that innovations during the design and development process can lead to unanticipated user benefits. The aim is to facilitate communication to achieve the common goal and deliver the best possible product.
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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
US eCommerce for Q4 2008 was down by 4.9%, as compared to Q4’ 07, according to the Department of Commerce or 3.5% according to comScore. The comScore number excludes the significant online travel sector. Q1-Q3 had shown consistent growth (11%, 13% and 6%) leaving the year as a whole with a 6% growth for non travel and 9% for travel. Travel makes up 28% of consumer online sales.
The fact
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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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ORGANIZATIONS
The International Council of Management Consulting Institutes
ICMCI Mission and Vision: The International Council of Management Consulting Institutes was founded in 1987 “to promote a closer working relationship between all management consulting institutes or organizations primarily dedicated to the registration or certification of individual management consultants.”
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The New York Tech Council
The trade association for software and information technology companies in the New York City area.
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