April, 2011

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Product Profitability Anyone? The JFB Pro-Growth Matrix

Jeff For Banks

'A bank attorney spoke at a recent Financial Managers'' Society (FMS) meeting that I attended. His topic: Leadership. His thesis: Analytics should be the basis for strategic decision making. He offered an interesting fact: 40% of critical decisions in U.S. companies are made from the gut. This style of decision making was romanticized by Jack Welch in his popular 2001 book: Jack Straight from the Gut.

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Guest Post: First Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

'The World Around Us World events are impacting our markets. Unrest in the Middle East has already changed governments in Tunisia and Egypt. Protests and internal fighting in Libya have led to an international coalition bombing the country in order to establish a “no-fly” zone. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain also face protests. Triple tragedies in Japan from the 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the giant tsunami, and the ongoing nuclear emergencies have us all unsettled.

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Enterprise-wide Risk Management (ERM): Yawn

Jeff For Banks

'I attended an industry presentation on ERM this past week put on by RSM McGladrey. The topic highly interested me, not because it is interesting, but because everybody is talking about it and there are differing opinions about what to do about it. What an opportunity for a non-audit, non-compliance, non-IT, and non-credit blogger to write about it!