Jim's Journal
NOLA: My friends’ favorite places to eat
NOLA: My friends’ favorite places to eat

NOLA: My friends’ favorite places to eat

Casual: Willa Jean** (Breakfast/Brunch) 611 O’Keefe Avenue  504.509.7334 Plum Street Snowballs (landmark treat) 1300 Burdette St 504.866.7996 The Camellia Grill (Sandwiches & Po’Boys) 626 S Carrollton Ave 504.866.9573 Mother’s (Po’Boys) 401 Poydras  504.523-9656 Parkway Bakery (Dive/Fun/Po’Boys) 538 Hagan Avenue 504.482.3047 Bachanal in the Bywater (wine and music) 600 Poland…

Looking back to look forward, and look for good. 
Looking back to look forward, and look for good. 

Looking back to look forward, and look for good. 

Too much to say these days, my mind is in a scattering bunch of tasks and trials.  Less time to think but when I do it often goes to unsettled times. Pondering a bit as I prepare to watch our…

My Granfather’s Hands
My Granfather’s Hands

My Granfather’s Hands

These are the hands of a man.These are the hands of a strong man, a kind man, a gentle man. These are the hands that shaped many lives, they held my mother, they held me, they held my children. They…

From B2B To P2P, Faster Payments
From B2B To P2P, Faster Payments

From B2B To P2P, Faster Payments

   I’ve watched the business-to-business , person-to-person, and account-to-account payments industry from an insider’s perspective over the last 20 years. Moving through time from commercial online banking, to retail online banking, to mobile banking, to digital banking – payments is…

Trends and the Shift in retail banking: Sales and Investments

The retail banking market has come out of the financial crisis with a new outlook on how to engage new customers and how to retain and cross sell others.  The shift to omni-channel, multi-channel whatever is something that has been…

Running with attitude – the right attitude 
Running with attitude – the right attitude 

Running with attitude – the right attitude 

I ran cross country in high school.  In my senior year I was the fastest runner, leading the team. If I knew then what I know today I would have been a better leader and ran even faster. Cross country…

Thoughts on Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman”

Reading the review in the NYT of the lost novel Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee it was obvious to me what was going on, at least in my mind or point of view. In fact I had just…

My recap of TAG Fintech 2015
My recap of TAG Fintech 2015

My recap of TAG Fintech 2015

Some thoughts from this years TAG Fintech 2015 (Technology Association of Georgia). I’ll look back on my tweets to help me: Lots of great analogies during the final session about Bitcoin – in summary it seems that beyond the hype…

New Gig – ACI Worldwide – Farewell TIS
New Gig – ACI Worldwide – Farewell TIS

New Gig – ACI Worldwide – Farewell TIS

So this is my last day at TIS (though I’m on Vacation) and my journey starts with ACI tomorrow morning with “Challenger Training” – then a week of sessions and keynotes and parties at the ACI Worldwide International Sales Conference.…

Hanukah
Hanukah

Hanukah

One of my Christian friends sent an email asking about Hanukah. He is a fraternity brother and I jokingly replied that it was like all holidays “they tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat” He incorrectly thought it was…