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Students studying one of the Business Services Training Package (BSB07) certificate or diploma qualifications occasionally ask how useful the course will be towards attaining a place on a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. Unfortunately there is no simple answer due to a number of factors:

Not All MBA Courses are Equal

Good MBA schools are expensive to attend and provide an excellent education. The majority of MBA schools however are of a poor quality and are quite simply a waste of time (i.e. job advancement after attaining an MBA won’t be forthcoming and the course content will be inadequate). When selecting a MBA school to attend it is always a good idea to attend one of the best. There are two means of discovering the worth of an MBA school; rankings and accreditation;

• Rankings: Ranking of MBA schools and programs is a contentious issue as the means of ranking and interpretation of data is sometimes questionable. The most respected rankings are those by the Financial Times, The Economist and Businessweek. Choose a school or program ranked in the in the top 50 to be guaranteed of a good MBA program.
• Accreditation: There are three major MBA accreditation bodies; EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB. Accreditation by any of these three guarantees a reasonable standard of education (a few Schools such as Henley Business School are accredited by all three).

What Defines Usefulness of a Certificate or Diploma?

Unfortunately a Certificate IV in Business, Diploma of International Business or any other Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) qualification from the Read the rest of this entry »

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The past ten days has seen three different but equally interesting Information Security alerts. Two involve major financial institutions (Goldman Sachs and Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)) and one the South Korean Government.

Goldman Sachs:

Sergey Aleynikov, a dual US and Russian citizen, is charged with stealing a ‘trading code’ from Goldman Sachs and transferring the code to a server in Germany. Use of the trading code by unscrupulous parties could result in manipulation of markets and millions of dollars in costs to Goldman Sachs.

CBA:

Here in Australia, CBA was forced to take its online banking portal, NetBank, offline due to “exceptionally high volumes of traffic … some of which appears to be malicious” on the 28^th June.

South Korea:

It was announced in South Korea today that there had been a significant number of ‘distributed denial of service’ attacks overnight resulting in certain government websites being unavailable. As Bloomberg describes the circumstances: ‘The attacks were caused by so-called “distributed denial of service,” which overwhelms Internet sites by generating large amounts of traffic through personal computers’. News Limited added: ‘every day the [South Korean] military counters an average of 10,450 hacking attempts and 81,700 computer virus infections in addition to other cases’.

What can Small Business do about the Risk?

Frightening stuff! So what can small businesses do to reduce these types of risk; use reputable IT and Telecoms Service Providers, use personal firewalls, keep anti-virus and online protection software up to date, keep software updated (e.g. Windows) to name a few. Most of all however be vigilant and aware of the dangers. The Information Pirates are out there to harm you and your business!

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I was very interested in ‘The Infotech 100′ article in the Businessweek June 1, 2009 edition. For me, one of the really interesting columns was the ‘Country’ of each company. Businessweek doesn’t summarise the country data so here is a table showing the countries represented and how many companies each have in the Businessweek ‘Infotech 100 2009′:

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Swine influenza is the first pandemic since the widespread sharing of information via the Internet. The last pandemic was the 1969 Hong Kong pandemic at which time the Internet did not exist. The amount of information relating to swine flu which is available on the Internet is huge (but unfortunately not all entirely accurate).

WordPress, Twitter, YouTube and the like are full of Swine Flu related content published by individuals. The Bookmarking and Sharing sites are Read the rest of this entry »

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Sun Microsystems has been acquired by Oracle Corporation (after it looked like Sun would be part of the IBM stable). Of particular interest to many bloggers and corporate Internet Application developers is what will happen with MySQL, the GNU General Public License (GPL) database engine.

A Bit about MySQL

MySQL was acquired by Sun in February 2008 which basically gave the rights of MySQL intellectual property (e.g. documentation) to Sun (which has now been procured by Oracle). MySQL is distribute under GPL therefore is available to download, install and use without financial cost.

MySQL is very widely used particularly for Internet Applications including search engines, content management systems and blogging platforms. High-traffic sites such as WordPress, Google, Wikipedia and Read the rest of this entry »

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