Posted in companies, online, technology on Jul 1st, 2009
In February and March 2009, consulting Firm Watson Wyatt talked to leaders of 181 companies to get their opinions regarding the use of social networking, blogs and webcasts. The report’s findings found that since the onset of worsening global economic conditions, companies are making much more use of Web 2.0 technology
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Posted in companies, technology on Feb 9th, 2009
The New Zealand Companies Office has been using Facebook for sometime and earlier this year started using Twitter in order to reach the public and give out information about new services. In a Computerworld news story Justin Hygate elaborates on the reason for this.
Posted in companies, information retrieval, technology on Jan 21st, 2009
Although the article is a bit academic and technical it is an interesting read. The authors monitored IBM’s staff blog for three years to trace how information is shared and found within a company . It really discusses the old “knowledge management” issues and looks at the usefulness of corporate blogs for information gathering.
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Posted in companies, technology on Dec 17th, 2008
This report from InformationWeek looks at how a number of companies introduced wikis into the workplace. Mention is made of the ups and downs of doing so – but generally there seems to have been really positive outcomes for all the companies.
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This very recent report entitled Online communities and their impact on business: ignore at your peril by Rubicon Consulting came out of a survey they undertook to see how people in the U.S. used the web. The major implication for companies was the need to understand the role the web played in their industry.
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Posted in companies, management on Jun 5th, 2008
Eiu Executive Briefing is a collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Economist. The homepage is free with links available to a number of publications, but full access to the site requires registration.
There is some interesting material here including a link to a 2008 fulltext pdf on talent management entitled People for Growth The talent challenge in [...]
Posted in companies on Apr 8th, 2008
Forbes’ very useful list of the global 2000 companies can be sorted rank, company, country, industry and a number of other ways. There is also a country scorecard, and a number of features on selected companies.
Posted in companies, management on Apr 7th, 2008
This recent publication (pdf) “The role of trust in business collaboration” by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and Cisco surveyed around 450 business executives, the majority of them based in the U.S., Europe and Asia to ask them about the projects, people and companies they had been collaborating with.
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Posted in companies, new resources on Apr 4th, 2008
From Information Today comes this article by Paula Hanes which mentions two new online resources. Linked-in and Tradevibes (the latter site still in beta but it claims to be “the first structured wiki for company information”.
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Posted in companies, new resources on Mar 27th, 2008
Vietnam is becoming a really popular place to do business. Although this buyusinfo publication on how to do business in Vietnam is primarily for U.S. companies, it still provides a wealth of information valid for New Zealand businesses.
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