Sewitch Etcetera Corporation

Dear Stan,

I’ve been an amateur observer of human behavior during my two-decade stint in the world of corporations. I’ve noticed that there’s always some type of turf war going on between various specialty functions. Continue reading →

I plopped down in front of Brenda’s desk and asked, “Have you managed to keep things together in my absence?” Continue reading →

“Cloud computing” is the latest term for SaaS (“Software as a Service”), which was a later term for ASP (“Application Service Provider”). Classic re-branding to distance the current version of something from its old-fashioned ancestry. Continue reading →

The sixth annual Corporate Directors Forum just completed last week, one of the most in-depth and intimate conferences of its type in the country. No more than about 250 people can attend the conference, held at the University of San Diego. Top leaders from corporate board rooms, the SEC, executive management, institutional investors and academia come together to actually talk to each other about the myriad challenges of conducting business in a democratic, capitalistic country.
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