Posted in hot topics, management, online on Jan 7th, 2009
Working knowledge is a great site which regularly produces high quality working papers on a variety of topics including leadership and change, globalisation. You can keep up-to-date by by linking up to their daily rss feed.
Another good business school is the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and you can also subscribe to their rss feeds [...]
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Posted in General, hot topics, small business on Nov 17th, 2008
This is a useful reference page which can be found on the U.K. government’s BusinessLink website. It deals with all aspects of CRM (customer relationship management)
Thanks to Intute
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Posted in hot topics on Feb 29th, 2008
MIT’s Technology review magazine has recently published it’s annual list of what it see’s as the most interesting technologies that will impact on us over the next few years. Includes offline web applications and nanoradio.
Thanks to Resourceshelf
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Posted in hot topics on Dec 14th, 2007
To follow up on an earlier hot topics posting on sustainability, here is a local way to get involved. Intersect (young professionals networking for sustainability) was launched recently in Wellington. You are never to be old to be young! The intention is for people to share ideas, develop leadership capabilities and grow networks. Their partners are the Sustainable Business Network [...]
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Posted in hot topics on Dec 13th, 2007
The latest California Management Review celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special issue on “Leading through innovation.” You can read this in hard copy at Central Library or read it online via our mygateway databases. Click here to go directly to this issue. To look at what range of databases we have look here . [...]
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Posted in hot topics on Nov 28th, 2007
You may have already read this very recent Computerworld article which draws attention to a new scam being performed on google searches. READ THIS
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Posted in hot topics on Nov 5th, 2007
Global warming shows sign of risky business This Australian newspaper article looks at the way litigation laws may alter in the face of climate change.
50 ways to green your business Mark Borden et al in the Nov 2007 issue of Fast Company, pp 90-99. As the title suggests, this is a list of fifty [...]
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Posted in hot topics on Nov 2nd, 2007
Madhav Mehra, President World Council for Corporate Governance , produced this report in July 2007 Climate Change – The Edge of a New Frontier which includes a section on what some international companies are doing.
Ceres is “a national network of investment funds, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working to advance environmental stewardship on the [...]
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