http://theorganisation.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:25:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Edward Tufte, as told to Jimmy Guterman in the MITSloan Management Review: On the (Very, Very Bad) Design of Corporate Web Sites The front page of a good news site will have 300 links on it. That’s great. And so the question is: How come your corporate Web site has only seven ... http://theorganisation.com/2010/03/10/how-facts-change-everything-if-you-let-them/ Training the Next Generation of Knowledge Workers: Readings for Effective Secondary Education & Workplace Learning Practices an edited collection by Jonathan H. Westover is now available from  The Organisation imprint. In today’s shifting global economy and the emergence of the technology and service-oriented knowledge organization, how do we train ... http://theorganisation.com/2010/03/01/training-the-next-generation-of-knowledge-workers/ From The Economist It is hard to overstate the importance of Toyota in Japan’s business psyche. The company has long been regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese innovation, manufacturing quality and industrial strength—particularly since it overtook General Motors in 2008 to become the world’s biggest carmaker. Its “lean” manufacturing techniques and ... http://theorganisation.com/2010/02/23/accelerating-into-trouble-the-company%e2%80%99s-problems-sharply-illustrate-the-failings-of-japanese-corporate-governance/ From The Economist • London Business School has topped the first of the year’s important global MBA rankings. It has taken the top spot outright in the Financial Times list of the top 100 full-time programmes, after sharing the honour with Pennsylvania’s Wharton School last year. • Two business-school heads are on ... http://theorganisation.com/2010/02/04/news-from-the-schools-january-2010-rolling-news-from-the-business-campuses/ Globalization, Labor & the Transformation of Work: Readings for Seeking a Competitive Advantage in an Increasingly Global Economy an edited collection by Jonathan H. Westover is now available from  The Organisation imprint. “Globalization” is a key concept that represents a wide range of complex processes in our modern ... http://theorganisation.com/2010/02/03/globalization-labor-the-transformation-of-work/ From The Economist Henry Hazlitt, one of the great popularisers of free-market thinking, once said that good ideas have to be relearned in every generation. This is certainly true of good ideas about business. A generation ago Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan did an excellent job of making the case ... http://theorganisation.com/2010/01/26/the-silence-of-mammon-business-people-should-stand-up-for-themselves/ The eleventh issue of Volume 9 of The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management has now been published. Volume 9, Number 11 contains: Sustainability and Economic Theory: An Organism in Premise by Abdallah M. Hasna. A Study of the Impact of University Values and Culture on Staff and Student Attitudes by Aspa ... http://theorganisation.com/2009/12/20/1613/ From Paul Krugman, Vox. There have been hedgehogs; there have been foxes; and then there was Paul Samuelson. I’m referring, of course, to Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction among thinkers – foxes who know many things, and hedgehogs who know one big thing. What distinguished Paul Samuelson as an economic thinker, making him ... http://theorganisation.com/2009/12/18/the-incomparable-economist/ From The Economist Sometimes confusion can be as instructive as precision. The travails of Dubai Inc have left commentators struggling for the right phrase to describe Dubai World and its various siblings. They have come up with various formulations—state-controlled, state-supported, quasi-state, parastatal—without ever quite capturing what they are talking about. And ... http://theorganisation.com/2009/12/14/the-rise-of-the-hybrid-company/ The tenth issue of Volume 9 of The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management has now been published. Volume 9, Number 10 contains: The Use of English at the School of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung: Investigating Issues Based on Students’ Experience by Andika Putra Pratama and Aries Feizal Firman. Multicultural ... http://theorganisation.com/2009/12/07/management-journal-volume-9-number-10-available/