New 鈥榃ellWiki鈥� to Provide Info on Every Oil and Gas Well in Canada
Finding information about oil and gas wells is about to become easier thanks to a new website that aims to provide data on all the wells drilled in Canada and the United States since 1859.
Customer Centric Metrics rescue retailer from Strategic Eccentrics: Customers take care of The Profits
Tom Peters has long argued the case for Customer Centricity. At the 2011 Progress Conference he said; 鈥淭he magic formula that business has revealed is to treat their customers like guests and their employees like people.鈥� So what is his 2013 take on strategy and leadership? Think of this as 鈥淭om Peter鈥檚 Balanced Scorecard鈥�.
La semaine de trois jours pr么n茅e par Carlos Slim
La proposition de Carlos Slim d鈥檜ne semaine de travail de trois jours semble folle. Mais beaucoup, en 1922, pensaient Henry Ford fou quand il a annonc茅 que son personnel travaillerait cinq jours par semaine.
World鈥檚 second richest man calls for three-day working week
Carlos Slim鈥檚 proposal that we work a three-day week sounds crazy. But many, in 1922, thought聽Henry Ford聽crazy when he announced that his staff would work a five-day week.
Combine hard and soft data
We tend to admire leaders who proclaim, 鈥淚f you can鈥檛 measure it, you can鈥檛 manage it.鈥� But what if that鈥檚 not necessarily true?
The End of Thinking?
Francis Fukuyama revisited his influential "End of History?" article recently and聽told readers of the聽Wall Street Journal聽(on June 6) that he was right after all.
Why Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are so successful, in one word
When Bill Gates first met Warren Buffett, their host at dinner, Gates鈥� mother, asked everyone around the table to identify what they believed was the single most important factor in their success through life.听Gates and Buffett gave the same one-word answer: 鈥淔ocus.鈥�
Re-building Lac-Megantic
涩里番 students Cecile Branco and Bernard d鈥橝rche [winners of the聽涩里番 Dobson Cup] tell Camille Ross about their innovative plan to help re-build Lac-Megantic after the devastating train accident.
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MOOCs and GROOCs on the move
涩里番鈥檚 initial experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, has been a success and the first offering, Food for Thought, will be repeated next year.
Canada鈥檚 partnership opportunity
Canada has excellent universities: for example, our share of highly cited publications is nearly 10 times our share of the world population. We also have great companies, and according to a 2014 Bloomberg ranking, Canada is the second-best country in the world in which to do business. Over the last 15 years, our governments have put in place many new investments in research and development, as well as innovation-friendly policies.
Pour un management dynamique des finances publiques
Invit茅 derni猫rement 脿 la Chambre Fran莽aise de Commerce et d鈥橧ndustrie du Maroc (CFCIM) pour d茅battre du th猫me pluridisciplinaire : 芦 Pour un management dynamique des finances publiques 禄, M. Noureddine Bensouda, Tr茅sorier g茅n茅ral du Royaume a pr茅sent茅 un expos茅 explquant son parti pris ce type de management.听
Is Strategic Philanthropy Yesterday鈥檚 News?
As I read the lead article in the latest issue of聽Stanford Social Innovation Review, 鈥淪trategic Philanthropy for a Complex World,鈥� by John Kania, Mark Kramer, and Patty Russell, I tried to imagine what it would feel like to do so from the vantage point of the director of a small nonprofit.
El fen贸meno de las estrategias emergentes
Por Jerko Juretic.听Si usted le pregunta a cualquier persona de su empresa qu茅 es una estrategia, la mayor铆a le responder铆a que es un plan de acci贸n elaborado por la alta direcci贸n.
...听En 1978, el experto en management,聽Henry Mintzberg, propuso que la estrategia tambi茅n pod铆a ser entendida como un patr贸n consistente de acciones en el tiempo, desarrollada de manera intencional -o no- por una compa帽铆a.听
06-04-14 Say it Again and Again
Your strategy to accomplish great results personally, at home and at work has the best chance of success if you invest in it, live it out, and communicate it widely. How often do you hear of plans that are promised but never even attempted? Those are strategies with no life; they are not authentic. Remember, all those implicated in a strategic plan and its actions ought to know it, have the opportunity to embrace it, and promote it.
The psychology of strategy
The psychology of strategy is all about achieving desired objectives, according to business strategy experts. Inherent in this definition is a process of prioritising and focus.
