http://www.fsavin.com Fredrik's home on the Internet Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:10:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en BusinessWeek, a business periodical, has published its ranking of the world’s 50 most innovative companies. The list, which was compiled in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), features Apple, Google, Toyota, in first, second and third place, respectively. Here are the 10 most innovative companies in the world according to BusinessWeek ... http://www.fsavin.com/2008/04/the-world%e2%80%99s-most-innovative-companies/ I recently wrote a report in a course called Management of Human Resources at Cass Business School on General Electric (GE) and its Human Resource Management (HRM) practices. When researching for this report, I came across a very interesting article published by The Economist, a news and international affairs publication, ... http://www.fsavin.com/2008/04/corporate-golf/ I have seen many students use Wikipedia as a source for academic reports. Perhaps even worse, many of these students have referred to articles published on the website in their bibliographies. Wikipedia is great for checking general knowledge you have forgotten and some articles do provide a good reference list. ... http://www.fsavin.com/2008/03/don%e2%80%99t-use-wikipedia-as-a-source/ A panel of experts, which included Clive Holtham of Cass Business School, has named Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, the most influential figure in technology over the last 150 years. The nominees were given marks across the following five categories: innovation; ground-breaking technology; industry success; ... http://www.fsavin.com/2008/02/the-45-most-influential-people-in-technology/ There has been a lot of speculation in the media during the last year about Internet’s latest phenomena Facebook and its profitability. An article by the Economist published in October 2007 suggested that Facebook might generate revenues of some $100m this year. Microsoft later paid $240m for 1.6% of the ... http://www.fsavin.com/2008/02/facebook-finances-leaked-onto-the-net/ I have just started to take a course called IT for Business at Cass Business School. The course touches upon everything from IT Management issues to Web 2.0. Ron Young delivered the first lecture yesterday and talked about Knowledge Management (KM) and technology. Ron is the CEO of a company called ... http://www.fsavin.com/2008/01/knowledge-management/ I found a great magazine last week called Entrepreneur. It is an American magazine but can be found at selected bookshops such as Borders in London. The magazine offers some great information and interesting reading on sales and marketing, management, technology and business strategy. The November issue features an interview with ... http://www.fsavin.com/2007/11/internet-start-ups-today-vs-yesterday/ Are you looking to learn more about a candidate you are considering for an opening at your company? Or perhaps you are keen on knowing how your company is described in the media? Then you should try a service called Google Alerts. The service, which is free to use, gives ... http://www.fsavin.com/2007/11/how-to-track-people-and-companies-on-the-web/ I found this survey on the website of the McKinsey Quarterly, the McKinsey & Company’s print and online publication, on how companies are currently marketing online. The survey, which is based on the responses of 410 marketing executives from the private and public sector around the world, shows where online ... http://www.fsavin.com/2007/10/how-companies-are-marketing-online/ EBay, the company behind the online auction and shopping website ebay.com, has written down its investment in Skype, an Internet telephone service, by £695m (nearly 50%). Skype has continued to add new users (its current user base is said to be 200m) at a fast rate but failed to produce ... http://www.fsavin.com/2007/10/ebay-writes-down-its-investment-in-skype/