Posted in General, Recent picks, management on Dec 19th, 2011
Planning and managing a corporate event / Karen Lindsey.Includes the Ultimate Tick List, A-Z Survival Guide, 50 Top Tips and Useful Contacts. This book provides comprehensive and expert guidance on planning and managing a Warner Music Entertainment corporate event. It is written as a support text for students studying event management and to provide a [...]
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Posted in management on Sep 24th, 2011
Deloitte have just published a paper entitled Organizing analytics: Building an analytical ecosystem for today, tomorrow and beyond. The document discusses the merits of the different models, looks at the goals of an analytical organization and how to building an analytical ecosystem.
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Conversion optimization / Khalid Saleh and Ayat Shukairy.
If you are looking for a ways to improve the performance of your e-commerce website, there is no way you can read Conversion Optimization and not come up with some great ideas that will directly improve your e-commerce business…. The book is full of real life examples, including [...]
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Posted in careers, companies, management on Oct 2nd, 2010
Deloitte’s 2010 Ethics and workplace survey is a fascinating read. Two of the key findings are that ”the recession has diminished two important forms of business currency- trust and ethics”.
The report looks also at the importance that “career-fit” still plays in an employee’s satisfaction.
Thanks to docuticker.
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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 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 [...]
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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 management, small business on Mar 27th, 2008
Scott Ginsberg is only 27 but has already published four books and his blog has been voted one of the world’s top 100 business blogs. His blog posting 98 ways to think like an entrepreneur is full of useful tips and ideas.
Thanks to Mary Ellen Bates
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Posted in management, new resources on Feb 18th, 2008
This really interesting site is a searchable archive of “hundreds of hours of direct, unfiltered interviews with today’s leading thinkers, movers and shakers”. There is a great Business and economics section.
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Posted in management, new resources on Dec 13th, 2007
Management focus is a free monthly magazine from Emerald Management First which highlights a selection of content from some of their journals. An archive of previous issues appears at the bottom of the page. It looks interesting.
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