Sean Nolan

Your data warehouse runneth over. But are you getting all you can from your wealth of 1s and 0s? Your competitors are, especially when it comes to mining their data to predict and prevent credit-card fraud. As a major player in consumer financial services, with $6 billion in revenue and 50 million cardholders, you need […]

Project Overview The world changed on Sept. 11, 2001. But your states law-enforcement agencies are still playing catch-up, especially when it comes to combining information that should be at their fingertips. Your midsize Western state may not seem like the most attractive target, but take another look: major population center, large reservoir system, nuclear power […]

You’re the nation’s sixth-largest bank, with 70,000 employees, $300 billion in assets, $12 billion in revenue and $3 billion in income. So that pesky little $2 million bug in your transaction-processing software is a drop in the bucket, right? Think again. Today’s $2 million software bug can morph into a $200 million embarrassment as easily […]

Which budgeting approach best fits your needs? For starters, download this Excel quiz. Answer the True and False questions below, then scroll to the key to see how your responses break down. While some aspects of each of the three approaches may describe your company, you should think seriously about pursuing the type of budgeting […]

Its August of 2003: Do you know where your companys Sarbanes-Oxley compliance system is? Like many companies, your publicly traded $3 billion retail operation has been a rather late—and disgruntled—adopter of the tough corporate-compliance rules triggered by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Youve struggled to meet the provisions of Section 302, already in effect, which […]