Reversed Argument Galore – US Food Industry on Sales

Reverse logic, you might listen to one being uttered once in a while, and as you recognize it, you just wanna pull your hair, and say “it’s either you are so obtuse or you are so evil” A sample of reverse logic: ……….. I can’t, I can’t think of any, it just to mindbogglingly dumb [...]

I thought Hyundai Genesis had a chance, then comes the 2011 Jaguar XJ

I like the Genesis a lot, I think it provides great value. I like the size, the safety equipment, the sound system, the gadgetry, and I don’t really car about the brand issue. I like it so much, as it launched, I called Hyundai Indonesia to find out when they’re going to import the car, [...]

NY Times article on the practice of simultaneously selling bad debts and then betting against it

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/business/24trading.html?em “The simultaneous selling of securities to customers and shorting them because they believed they were going to default is the most cynical use of credit information that I have ever seen,” said Sylvain R. Raynes, an expert in structured finance at R & R Consulting in New York. “When you buy protection against an [...]

Ridicilious mark up by indonesian software distributor

Recently i was evaluating a very nice looking visual mining software named Advizor. The software allows a very visual manipulation of a large data set, it doesn’t provide the deep analysis afforded by SAS data mining tool, or the more automatic approach by SPSS PASW modeler, but it greatly support business user with some interest [...]

What’s the best career move for fresh graduates?

Get yourself a good boss. Totally. If you have the option of 3 type of workplace: 1. A place that offers substantial pay compared to other company for fresh grads (it happens right?) 2. A place with good boss, people who are great themselves and really care about making their staff to be as good [...]

KFC aggresive up sell

I like KFC, i think it provides a good value meal, and i assume it has some standards, if i go to unfamiliar cities and i like a safe bet, sometimes i just go with KFC. Yet, something always bothers me a bit everytime i approach their counter, the feeling that i’m about to meet [...]

US$ 47.5 billion software development

Excerpt Microsoft almost bought Yahoo for US$ 47.5 billion, yet they could just spend US$ 10 billion for building a Yahoo rival. It seem the decision maker is more interested in producing mega-mergers than actual value calculation and creation.