Andrew McAfee, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School lead a discussion with Christopher Keohane, Social Media Program Product Manager at Lockheed Martin IS&GS – CIO – Architecture Services and Shawn Dahlen, Social Media Program Manager, Lockheed Martin IS&GS CIO Office to talk about their Unity enterprise 2.0 platform at Lockheed Martin. The Lockheed Martin guys … Read more »
Year: 2009
Enterprise 2.0 Keynotes on Tuesday
After Monday night’s Evening in the Cloud (That is me in the middle of the picture during the Evening in the Cloud), Tuesday turned to social media and collaboration in the keynote presentations on the big stage. It was a mixed bag of presentations. There were glimpses of how organizations can use enterprise 2.0 and … Read more »
Evening in the Cloud and Compliance
The The Evening in the Cloud session at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference was fun. David Berlind Editor-At-Large and General Manager of TechWeb was the moderator. I sat in the customer role beside Christopher Reichert of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Sean Poulley VP Online Collaboration Services of IBM, Rajen Sheth Senior Product Manager of Google … Read more »
Compliance and Cloud Computing at Enterprise 2.0
Monday night, I am heading over to the The Evening in the Cloud program at this year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference. They asked me to help grill the vendors on compliance issue More software and business operations are being pushed into the cloud. Why buy the hardware and software when someone else will run them for … Read more »
Stanford Arrested
We saw it coming. It was like OJ in the Bronco. Last night, Sir R. Allen Stanford stepped out of his girlfriend’s house in Virginia, walked over the the FBI car parked out front and asked if they had an arrest warrant. They did. The grand jury had released its indictment. The surprise was who … Read more »
More on the Private Fund Transparency Act of 2009
The full text of the Private Fund Transparency Act of 2009 has now been published (S. 1276). The press release from Senator Reed was nice, but I prefer to see the ink on the paper. So here is what I see n the Act: Registration The Act deletes the exemption from registration in Section 203 … Read more »
Corporate Compliance Scam Continues. . .
. . But some of the perpetrators may have been caught. California California businesses have recent reports. The scam seems to have been operating in California for years. Colorado There are reports of the scam in Colorado: State Corporate Compliance fraud. The Secretary of State is also getting complaints about the Colorado Compliance Recorder: Updated … Read more »
Social Media and Your Compliance Program
Bill Piwonka, Amanda Mayhew and Rodica Buzescu from EthicsPoint gave a webinar on social media and compliance. These are my notes: The presentation started with a user poll on the approach to social media at the attendees’ organizations: 27% block all social media sites 42% block a few social media sites only 29% allow all … Read more »
EU Proposes Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers
The European Commission published a draft Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers to establish a common regulatory and supervisory framework for all investment managers of funds promoted to investors in the European Union and not currently subject to European level regulation. Though the measure is directed at the hedge fund industry, the Directive would affect … Read more »
Private Fund Transparency Act
We have another bill that is proposing to regulate private pools of capital. Yesterday, Senator Jack Reed (RI) introduced the Private Fund Transparency Act of 2009 (S.1276) According to the press release, the Private Fund Transparency Act of 2009 will: Require all hedge fund and other investment pool advisers that manage more than $30 million … Read more »