Voice, Voice Everywhere
The spoken word is the hot commodity this fall, for Internet companies ranging from retailers that envision voice-activated sales to advertisers envisioning a captive audience. In this special report, Business 2.com examines how companies will profit from voice technologies on the Web, what obstacles remain, who the leading players are, and what the future will bring.
Content: Article | Author: Elizabeth Hurt | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
Unleashing the Killer App : Digital Strategies for Market Dominance
Downes and Mui argue that the dominant trend behind the proliferation of killer apps is a combination of Moore’s Law, which states that the processing power of the CPU doubles every 18 months, and Metcalfe’s Law, which observes that the value of a network increases dramatically with each node that’s added to it. These two laws are fundamentally changing how businesses interact with each other … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Chunka Mui, Larry Downes, Nicholas Negroponte | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis
Knowledge Management World
What you will find on this site: 100 Companies that matter in KM, Online Resources, Buyer’s Guide, Industry News, and KM Events
Content: Online Resource | Source: Knowledge Management World | Subject: Knowledge Management
Maybe You Can Go Home Again
Big firms thought VCs could help them get rich and build online businesses. Now they’re thinking again.
Content: Article | Authors: Megan Barnett, Miguel Helft | Source: The Standard | Subject: Management
Digital Commerce Center (USC)
Digital Commerce Center contains research and resources in the areas of electronic commerce, Internet advertising, digital asset management, media convergence, organizational knowledge, small business advice, corporate education, and business financing.
Content: Online Resource | Source: EC2 @ USC | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Knowledge Management
ManagementFirst.com
Focused on management theory and practice, ManagementFirst.com is a management portal created and maintained by MCB UP Ltd. A range of “Expert Channels” explore in-depth management issues including Leadership, Time Management, Training, and Customer Relationship Management. Each channel provides lengthy articles, advice, and profiles of successful managers, along with a collection of carefully annotated links. New articles and breaking news are recorded on the site’s … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: MCB UP Ltd. | Subject: Management
Competing for the Future
Hamel and Prahalad develop judicious, provocative managerial theses in this sophisticated work. Rejecting recent downsizing and reengineering trends, they present their blueprint for transforming an industry’s structure, which, they stress, is the primary challenge facing today’s managers. The authors focus on tomorrow’s competition and opportunities, vitalizing the company for the future and outrunning competitors to “get to the future first.” Pioneering ideas on strategy, leadership … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: C.K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel | Subjects: Management, Strategy
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Content: Thought Leader | Sources: Emerald Now, ManagementFirst | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Charles Handy
famous management guru from UK
Content: Thought Leader | Sources: Emerald Now, ManagementFirst | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training
Self-Renewal : The Individual and the Innovative Society
Content: Book | Author: John W. Gardner | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior
Peter F. Drucker
What is the first duty–and continuing responsibility–of the business manager? To strive for the best possible economic results from the resources currently employed or available.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Management, Miscellaneous
Keeping Score : Using the Right Metrics to Drive World-Class Performance
Content: Book | Author: Mark Graham Brown | Subjects: Management, Operations
Winning Score : How to Design and Implement Winning Scorecards
Content: Book | Author: Mark Graham Brown | Subjects: Management, Operations
Thomas A. Edison
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Content: Quotation | Subject: Success / Failure
George Gilder
The central event of the 20th century is the overthrow of matter. In technology, economics, and the politics of nations, wealth in the form of physical resources is steadily declining in value and significance. The powers of mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge, Trends / Analysis
Microcosm : The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology
Content: Book | Author: George Gilder | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
Telecosm : How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
Content: Book | Author: George Gilder | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
World Class : Thriving Locally in the Global Economy
Content: Book | Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Subjects: International, Management
How Much Information?
Suffering from information overload? According to this new study from the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, “the world’s total yearly production of print, film, optical, and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabytes of storage.” Magnetic storage is by far the most common medium for storing information, accounting for an estimated 635,660 to 1,693,000 terabytes per … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: University of California Berkeley | Subjects: Knowledge Management, Miscellaneous
Can peer-to-peer grow up?
The latest tech craze needs one hit company to make it valid. The Silicon Valley elite is betting on InfraSearch.
Content: Article | Author: Justin Hibbard | Source: Red Herring | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis