In the first blog about the merger of ABN AMRO and Fortis I tried to show that the integration of the technical infrastructure of both banks will be very difficult. In this blog I want to talk about a much more important issue called Culture. When the merger of ABN and AMRO was starting I [...]
Why the Merger of ABN AMRO and Fortis will Fail (Part 2 Culture) if They Don’t Apply The Lessons Learned
By October 7th, 2007, underWhy the Merger of ABN AMRO and Fortis will Fail (Part 1 Technical Infrastructure) if They Don’t Apply The Lessons Learned
By October 5th, 2007, underToday it is almost sure that Fortys will buy ABN AMRO. I was involved in the merger between ABN and AMRO in 1991. AMRO was the most important competitor of ABN. It was a strange idea that we (ABN) were combined to become a “Global Bank”. Soon I found out that we were in many [...]
How to become Very Rich by Implementing Story Based Games (Part 4, Story Based Games)
By October 3rd, 2007, underA few years ago I met the most important game-designer in the world. He is the inventor of many board-games but also of very successful television-games. His games were sold all over the world. At that time he was just hired by one of the most important entertainment-firms in the word to become their Chief [...]
How to build Story Based Games
By October 2nd, 2007, underWhen you want to Play a Game with Many people you need a special infrastructure that is highly scalable. When we build the Game we used Mosaic and Cordys. This a document I wrote about Cordys. Cordys is highly related to Mosaic. An important part of Cordys was based on the Mosaic Infrastructure. Cordys bought [...]
About Story-Based-Games
By September 29th, 2007, underAbout ten years ago I was asked to write a book. It was the first time somebody asked me to do this. The person who asked me to write a book was the former director of a foundation called SMO, Wim de Ridder. SMO is a Dutch think tank paid by many big companies in [...]
About Boundary Spanners
By September 28th, 2007, underA big company hired a very expensive advisor to make more deals. The expensive advisor made a list of "highly important people" and for some reason I was put at the top of the list.
How to make a Big Deal or How Bribing Changed the Games We Played
By September 27th, 2007, underI have negotiated many contracts in my life. The biggest contract had a value of about 60 million Euros. In this blog I want to share some of my experience with you. I want to start with a funny story. I start with a funny story because buying and selling has to be fun to [...]
