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.
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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.
Thanks to Resourceshelf
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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”.
Thanks to Library Stuff
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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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Posted in companies on Feb 18th, 2008
A recent survey by the American Software & Information Industry Association reveals that businesses are increasingly embracing Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs and social networking to reach new markets and generate more user engagement. Either read the press release or see the full results here on the SIIA site
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This newish magazine (launched December 2005) “is a magazine about creative business, innovation, entrepreneurship and creating wealth from ideas”. The founders and writers have a great pedigree and have previously been associated with such publications as Computerworld, Urbis, Unlimited and NZ Pc World. Wellington City Libraries hold this magazine, or have a look at the [...]
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Posted in companies on Nov 9th, 2007
It’s that time of the year and the 2007 annual reports are flooding in, including Auckland Airport, Positively Wellington Business, Foodstuffs and a number of energy and port companies. Our annual reports are housed on the 1st floor north of the Central Library. We also have a large archive of annual reports and news clippings and [...]
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