by Mark Raskino | April 15, 2009 | 4 Comments
Over the last few weeks I have noticed an increase in ‘green shoots’ stories and of course there has been another stock market rally. When economists and business analysts are commenting, the US debate often seems to centre on whether the stimulus will be inflationary further down the line. One side says the stimulus is [...]
Category: CEO Recession Tags: Economy, Recession, Unemployment
by Mark Raskino | April 6, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week I visited Serbia for the first time. Our excellent distributor in Belgrade Petar Kocovic made sure I was well looked after. We had an excellent turn-out for my presentations on CEOs issues and IT, IT Cost cutting and of course – the Hype Cycle. While I was there Petar explained that the recession [...]
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by Mark Raskino | April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments
When I’m giving presentations at the moment I frequently say that ‘IT isn’t to blame for this recession – that was the last one’. The milder recession in the early part of the decade was led by a technology business capital expenditure slump, following the dot com crash. However, this recession resulted from a drop [...]
by Mark Raskino | February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
One of the great pleasures of being a Brit working for an American company is the exchange of interesting words, phrases, and colloquialisms. For example I recently had to explain ‘cream crackered‘ to someone. This week a great new term arrived on my news alert doorstep from across the pond: ‘shovel ready’. I love it! [...]
Category: CEO Economy Management Recession Strategy Tags: CFO, Economy, Shovel Ready
