Archive for May 11th, 2004
Drakeview: “Drake Associates have long held that the pathway to profitability is innovation. That as organizations mature they tend more toward efficiency (preventing mistakes) to maximize revenue, but that doesn’t necessarily lead to improving profits (which requires risk taking). It is obviously more complicated than that, but it is always been a useful shorthand in [...]
QuickMBA: “QuickMBA is an online knowledge resource for business administration. Our goal is to help you to quickly find the business knowledge you need, when you need it, wherever you may be. Topics are presented as frameworks and summaries in the various subjects of business administration, as taught in the world’s top MBA programs. QuickMBA [...]
Big Companies Fail Online Customer Support Test
An article today from ZDNet discusss how large companies fail to deliver acceptable levels of customer support online. My favorite quote from the article: Also inconsistent was any link between the companies’ apparent preparedness to accept complaints on their Web sites and the way their service was rated. “There was no correlation between the presences [...]
Carnival of Capitalist Hosts Needed
Business Pundit: “We need some more hosts for the Carnival of the Capitalists. If you have a blog, especially if it is a business related blog, and would like to host one week, contact Jay via email at Jay-at-accidentalverbosity-dot-com. It will generate a significant increase in traffic for you for the day, and you will [...]
May is National Small Business Month, and it’s the right time to start a business according to Jeff and Rich Sloan hosts of the nationally syndicated StartupNation Radio program. The Sloan brothers’ top ten reasons that it’s a good time to start a business: We learned a lot of lessons in the dot-com era of [...]
