Technology & Innovation
Innovate or die
Source: Morice Mendoza, World Business editor
Reviewed: 12-Dec-07
From Ford and General Motors 100 years ago to Google today, management models can provide great competitive advantage. In the past, companies found scientific and organisational models, which enabled them to mass-produce products faster and more cheaply or to organise global businesses more efficiently.
Risk averse
Words by: Richard Willsher, World Business
Published: 23-Oct-07
Every business owner, investor or risk manager would like to be able to predict the possible risks their businesses face and the probable outcomes of their strategic decisions – and then be able to select the best direction to take.
IT entrepreneur keeps foot on peddle
Source: Financial Times
Reviewed: 26-Sep-07
Yorkshire IT entrepreneur Peter Wilkinson is happiest doing what he does best - building IT businesses from scratch. He is less happy when he has to deal with financiers from the City of London, which he describes as "farting around down there wasting my bloody time..."
Wikipedia - a model for business?
Source: HBS Working Knowledge
Reviewed: 24-Jul-07
Even by online phenomenon standards, Wikipedia is huge. Begun in 1999 by Jimmy Wales under the name Nupedia, the service today claims 1.8 million articles in English, 4.8 million registered users, and 1,200 volunteers who regularly edit Wikipedia articles.
Green motoring
Source: Helen Dunne, World Business
Reviewed: 11-Jul-07
Alternative sources of fuel are becoming available, but few present an immediate low-cost solution to cutting carbon emissions.
The rise of Asia's industrial clusters
Source: Far Eastern Economic Review
Reviewed: 10-Jul-07
The creation of industrial clusters in Asia has a mixed record so far.
