Sosiego en la penunbra

Este libro de poesía, escrito por mi tía Rosa, lo estuve leyendo poco a poco durante las noches. Muchos recuerdos y pensamientos en cada una de las líneas del libro. Libro dedicado que guardo con alegría en la estantería de casa.

El plan revolucionario

Este libro de nutrición rompe con muchos dogmas adquiridos por la sociedad occidental de nuestros tiempos. Habla sobre como mirar la alimentación como una parte más de nuestra vida, recordarnos de donde venimos y como el marketing nos ha cambiado los hábitos, revisar cada cosa buena y mala que una acción tiene sobre tu cuerpo, … Read more

Bank Transformation Toolkit

This framework is used for the major banks to enable the different channels that banks use to have: internal, web, mobile, ATM, … The old name of the product was: WSBCC-WebSphere Business Components Composer. I understand why they have changed the name of the product to BTT. In reality this Websphere component can be used … Read more

Innovation is hard thing

Edison’s electric light did not come about from the continuous improvement of the candles. ~ Oren Harari Innovation is a hard and continuous frustrating job. Your mind has to fight every day against the unknown. People says “oh wow, you work on an innovation project, that’s cool !”, but they really do not always understand … Read more

Diario de invierno

Con Javier en casa y el resto del jaleo, es complicado sacar tiempo para leer. Dormir es una necesidad básica de la que me cuesta prescindir. Eso si, en esta semana de diciembre con viajes a Madrid y Barcelona, me dio tiempo a leer este diario lleno de reflexiones y anécdotas.

Stock decisions I did not take

This is a list of events and potential actions I didn’t take, and that I want to remember: Event: Trump won the USA election Action not taken: Buy Goldman Sachs stock. Result in 3 months: stock from 185$ to 250$. Chemours splitted from DuPont, Nelson Petz after Kraft split he invested in Mondelez. Action not … Read more

Benchmarking by Solomon Associates

Solomon Associates created a methodology to measure the performance of the oil companies: Comparative Performance Analysis (CPA), started in 1980. Their registered motto is: measure, manage, maximize. One of the essential concepts is that only through this comparison process you can truly identify the areas where your facilities could improve. The main oil companies of … Read more

15 minutes call, rules

You organize daily calls and you try to make them effective and efficient. Define the purpose and clear ground rules help to complete them on these 15 minutes. Objective: What did we do yesterday/today, What will we do today/tomorrow, what is blocking us? Agenda: We will use the action list to drive our agenda. Ground-rules: … Read more