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Peter Neupert, CEO of drugstore.com, offers advice for keeping your company on course and your employees calm, cool, and collected as dotcompetitors drop like flies and stock prices continue to slide.

Content: Article | Author: Anni Layne Rodgers | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management

This independently managed site at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania was established by the Wharton School to identify and explore the best ways for companies to compete, survive and succeed in industries that are being created or transformed by emerging technologies. The site has four major sections: Research, Insights for Industry, Events and What’s New.

Content: Online Resource | Source: Wharton | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Social Responsibility (ESG), Success / Failure

Content: Book | Author: Stanley M. Davis | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Content: Book | Author: Guy Kawasaki | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Choosing performance measures is a challenge. Performance measurement systems play a key role in developing strategy, evaluating the achievement of organizational objectives and compensating managers. Yet many managers feel traditional financially oriented systems no longer work adequately. A recent survey of U.S. financial services companies found most were not satisfied with their measurement systems. In an article on Oct. 16, in the Financial Times’ … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Finance, Management

This site is focused around the ideas involved with the world-famous Baldridge Award. You’ll find lots of useful information that extends the concepts of Baldridge to your organization in the following areas: Leadership, Strategic Planning, Customers & Markets, Information & Analysis, Human Resources, Process Management, and Business Results. You’ll also quite naturally find information useful for writing a Baldridge application, winning company case … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: baldridgeplus.com | Subjects: Leadership, Management

This Economist article examines the impact and importance of the Internet on business and management. Raises some interesting points, some novel and some commonly known.

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Content: Article | Author: Frances Cairncross | Source: The Economist | Subjects: Management, Trends / Analysis

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Content: Thought Leader | Sources: Emerald Now, ManagementFirst | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

famous management guru from UK

Content: Thought Leader | Sources: Emerald Now, ManagementFirst | Subject: Management | Industry: Education / Training

Content: Book | Author: John W. Gardner | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

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

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