Daily Archives: March 10, 2003
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Which Strategy Consultancies do candidates most want to work for?
McKinsey continues to enjoy a major competitive advantage over rival consulting firms, according to the results of a survey published by Top-Consultant.com
Respondents confirmed McKinsey is the employer of choice amongst strategy consultancies, securing almost twice as many votes as any of its rivals. It was followed by BCG , then by Bain & Co. followed by Booz, Allen Hamilton
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Top Ten Trends for Online Communities
The article starts with:
“The online community sector has negotiated a wrenching twelve months, as played out in each issue of the Online Community Report. While user popularity of online communities continues to swell, the business underpinnings of most efforts have foundered. Contraction and closures have characterized the sector.
Fortunately, there are a number of specific niches within the online community space which are bucking the trend and demonstrating strong revenues, credible earnings (now or forecast), and a promising future. This article reviews ten such areas which, given their financial promise, represent the future of online communities.”
Interesting insights especially, that people are interested in paying for search communities and not just any communities !
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Hidden away in the Learning English for work section of the BBC World Service website is a gem of a guide to Management Gurus written and delivered by Charles Handy, the celebrated management thinker, writer and broadcaster. You can listen on demand to each of the fifteen minute broadcasts and download the scripts.
On the right of this page you will see a list of all the featured gurus, with links to each broadcast and the miniature biographies accompanying the series, together with a link to the featured books.
The people featured are the likes of Handy himself, Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Warren Bennis (the leadersip guru), Sumantra Ghoshal (on transnational management), Kenichi Ohmae, Gary Hamel ( on Business Innovation), Rosabeth Moss Kanter(the change thinker), Bill Gates, Ricardo Semler, Michael Porter(the strategy thinker), Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner
