06/04/15
There are hundreds of blogs on interview technique, but very few on which companies you should apply to in the first place, or even which position you should choose. Back in the day, when we were running the Kx Systems sales office in New York we ran a...
Read more05/21/15
For more on Options’ 2015 graduate scheme click here. Three out of every four hires I make are graduates. My personal philosophy is that there are a lot of roles in any firm where a smart graduate with the right attitude will outshine an industry veteran...
Read more08/05/14
I recently did a Q&A with the Belfast Telegraph that covered a wide range of issues including how I got started in financial technology, why I always bet on talent over experience, the future for Lough Shore Investments, Lough Shore Technologies and...
Read more06/26/14
Happy, satisfied customers are the best advertisement for any business, especially in “village” sectors like Fintech where everybody talks to each other, all the time. And every once in a while, if you’re lucky, a customer is so happy that they want...
Read more04/23/14
It’s been a busy few months for Lough Shore and Options; so much so that a number of blog posts have remained in my Drafts folder a little longer than planned. The one below is certainly a case in point and while it’s a snapshot from a couple of months...
Read more03/28/14
Many business people have a series of metaphors that shape how they think about the world and unsurprisingly, most of mine come from growing up on a dairy farm, on the shores of Lough Neagh. For me, two in particular stand out, the first of which...
Read more04/15/13
The work we’re doing over at Options touches on something very close to my heart – IT project overruns. Aside from it being an area most CIOs, COOs and even CEOs spend a great deal of their time attempting to navigate; it’s always been of...
Read more02/06/13
This week’s news that the Chancellor wants the RBS bonus pool to carry the cost of any fines arising from the Libor scandal will be welcomed by many. For me, it also raised a number of interesting points on the issue of bonuses in general. RBS bankers must...
Read more01/10/13
Sports equipment might seem like a strange place to start a blog on SEO but in this instance, it works as the perfect analogy. In recent years, a new ‘must have’ product has taken the sporting world by storm. It’s a product that claims to increase...
Read more11/15/12
Somewhere along the line I picked up a keen appreciation of cost control and the notion that a penny saved is worth even more than a penny made. My view has always been that cost saving should be the start of any effort to grow a balance sheet and...
Read more04/26/12
We were lucky enough to be invited to last week’s Angel Meetup in Dublin. Brilliantly organised by Diane Roberts of Xcell Partners (and now also Colman Equity), the event brought together some of the country’s leading Angels; Gavin Duffy from RTE’s...
Read more02/21/12
It’s been a week since WorldDesk launched a beta version of their cloud-based desktop delivery solution, leveraging the Dropbox platform. My bet is that this little bit of magic will herald a fundamental change in the way we think about mobile computing and...
Read more01/23/12
For a couple of years in my twenties I turned into “Mr Quotation” and could ream off words of wisdom from all the sages in the last Millennia. Then I promptly forgot them all again. Perhaps a case of a befuddled youth, reading every self help book in the...
Read more01/03/12
Wishing you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2012!! Personally, January is my favourite month of the year in business, not just that but this year feels a little different, here at Lough Shore we’re entering 2012 with a palpable sense of...
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