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Technology improvements provide portals for every taste and job requirement

Content: Article | Author: Karen D. Schwartz | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Knowledge Management

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Distribution chains are becoming obsolete, replaced by distribution communities that collectively create value for the customer

Content: Article | Author: Michael Hammer | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: Operations, Trends / Analysis

InformationWeek multi-article report includes: What Business Are You In?; The Value Of Incubators; Proving Grounds: A Complicated Relationship; Beware The Hype And The Anti-Hype; and Old Ideas Work For New Economy.

Content: Article | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Management

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In politics as in affairs of the heart, building trust remains that most elusive ideal. But creating it in your workplace could be your greatest competitive advantage.

Content: Article | Author: Arthur Ciancutti | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Content: Book | Author: William E. Fulmer | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

This 47-page document from FRB St. Louis, full of charts and graphs, reports on economic trends from countries throughout the world, including Japan, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, the US, the United Kingdom and the Euro Area. Also includes an interesting cover page discussing the disconnect between opinions about free trade held by the general public and economists.

Content: Article | Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

incl. Mike Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Christine Comaford, Nicholas Negroponte, Steve Jurvetson, Geoffrey Moore, Rob Glaser, Patricia Seybold, Guy Kawasaki and more

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Management

Pangilinan is president and CEO of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. and also executive chairman of Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Management

Cobourn is a Wall Street analyst and technology strategist at UBS Warburg

Content: Thought Leader | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Management

This .pdf file from the Financial Markets Center offers a closer look at the rise of stock options. The report “summarizes the key trends in the use of stock options and highlights the broader implications of this practice for measuring earnings and conducting national economic policy.” Five points are discussed in this nine-page document, allowing readers to understand the basic principles and problems surrounding stock … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Financial Markets Center | Subjects: Finance, Trends / Analysis

If you’d like a look at the short-term direction of the training industry, consider these 12 trends described by Gartner. The trends fall into two categories–technology and management–and cover everything from knowledge management to bigger budgets.

Content: Article | Sources: Gartner, TechRepublic | Subjects: Education, Trends / Analysis | Industry: Education / Training

ERP applications are designed to optimize an organization’s underlying business processes – primarily accounting/financial, manufacturing, distribution, and human resources/payroll. This note identifies 3 current trends in the ERP market: ERP Functional Scope Expansion; Sharper Vertical Focus; and Flexibility Enabled by Adaptable Architecture. These trends are the direct consequence of vendors’ attempts to resolve current ERP functional and/or technological deficiencies, and/or expand software sales both within … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: P.J. Jakovljevic | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subjects: Operations, Trends / Analysis

Part 2 of 2-part note. This part identifies 3 more current trends in the ERP market: Web- and E-commerce Enablement of ERP Systems; Intensified Market Merger & Acquisition Activity; and Advent of Application Hosting Services.

Content: Article | Author: P.J. Jakovljevic | Source: TechnologyEvaluation.com | Subjects: Operations, Trends / Analysis

From the United States Trade Representative (USTR), this report “surveys significant foreign trade barriers to U.S. export.” Created from information collected from government agencies including the USTR and the US Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, the report attempts to classify barriers in foreign trade into ten categories including import policies, government procedures, lack of intellectual property protection, and investment barriers. Reports on US trade … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: United States Trade Representative (USTR) | Subjects: International, Trends / Analysis

Content: Book | Author: Thorstein Veblen | Subject: Management

Content: Book | Author: Chester Irving Barnard | Subject: Management

The first book to depict management as a distinct function and to recognize managing as a separate responsibility, this classic work by Peter Drucker is the fundamental and basic book for understanding these ideas.

Content: Book | Author: Peter F. Drucker | Subject: Management

Heralded as one of the most important pieces of management literature ever written, a touchstone for scholars and a handbook for practitioners, The Human Side of Enterprise continues to receive the highest accolades nearly half a century after its initial publication. Influencing such major management gurus such as Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, McGregor’s revolutionary Theory Y-which contends that individuals are self-motivated and self-directed-and Theory … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Douglas McGregor | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior