In the last five days, I have received several requests for proposals for team building facilitation at the management team retreat. Some have been requesting for motivational talks. Around this time of the year, many leaders are planning for off-site strategic retreats and team building events. When I receive some requests for proposals, I respond to the sender asking for two clarifications: Why do you need team building and motivational talk? What would you say is your #1 strategic challenge today? Most procurement officers who send the requests for quotations often don’t answer the questions in which case, I don’t…
Cyber security as a service (Csaas)
Blockchain hacked. Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked. That was the headline of an article by Mike Orcutt that was published on MIT Technology Review online, on February 19th, 2019. Here is an extract from the article: “Early last month [January – Editor], the security team at Coinbase noticed something strange going on in Ethereum Classic, one of the cryptocurrencies people can buy and sell using Coinbase’s popular exchange platform. Its blockchain, the history of all its transactions, was under attack. An attacker had somehow gained control of more than half of the network’s computing power and was…
