Building on that attribute, in the Storm stage you’ll need your Ability to Trust and Win-Win Orientation to get you through the stormy times this stage presents. Many alliances get stranded in this stage, as win-lose conflict resolution destroys trust and sets up the partnership for failure. As your alliance moves into initiating a task, your team begins to establish norms of behavior. This is the Norm stage. As you think about a new future, your Comfort with Change will be challenged as you begin to plan and do things differently. Keeping future oriented and not making assumptions about what your partners will do is difficult, especially if you have preconceived notions of how they are. This will challenge your Future Orientation and Comfort with Change as you move from the status quo to changing and letting go of control. While change is difficult, failure to do so can diminish trust and the quality of your output.
Archive for the ‘browser problems’ Category
Keep your payday loan future oriented February 24th, 2010
Signing for the right credit approach February 3rd, 2010
Besides senior management considerations, it is helpful for you to understand what VCs and Business Angels expect by way of return on their investment. VCs will be looking for a high return and a likely exit in five to seven years. They are attracted to businesses that have a chance of going public, or being on-sold at a significant profit. (You need to bear in mind, however, that very few private businesses have a realistic chance of taking the flotation route.)
Business Angels are a mixed bag of individuals. Some of them take a professional investment approach by seeking high returns through a three to five year exit (and will keep at arm’s length from your business in the meantime). Others will be quite happy to be involved in the business in a non-executive capacity with no particular rate of return, or exit time frame in mind: these people might be, simply, looking for something exciting to do!
Pervasive bad habits in designing financial websites November 3rd, 2009
In the 1990s, the Browser War that broke out between two financial giants Microsoft and Netscape was a cause of the development of many proprietary technologies and techniques that today have spread across the Internet. A great deal of these technologies involved presentation of various types of information (finances, stock exchange, education, entertainment etc.) into the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) markup or implemented interactivity in a browser-specific way. What is more, developers had to deal with many problems to get a profitable design out of technologies that were not prepared to creating flexible and well-designed websites on subjects such as online loans, banking or real estate. Their numerous kluges and techniques soon became habit, then were incorporated into software, and in the end affected the software industry’s comprehension of how financial websites should be built. Currently, over ten years later, technology and techniques have improved considerably but the specter of those 1990s techniques still remains—and it’s costing everyone a lot of money and potential clients.
Those costs of operating on financial markets online include increased development risk, expenses, and time to market, problems with brand and customer management, unnecessarily high bandwidth costs, staff turnover problems, as well as increased complexity and cost with regard to future financial websites and application of modifications. At the most basic level, these issues are too closely connected with backend software and appear in form of a bloated, technically incorrect and complex code, which does everything from damage the user experience to limit search engine results. Changes in the presentation layer of a financial (or any other) website should not put software at risk and a tiered approach, which has been a popular in the software world for years, is easily accessible by means of a more mature approach on the UI layer.
