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Building Society Loans Slump
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Lending by building societies slumped last month and is expected to remain low for some time due to the depressed state of the housing market, the industry's lobby group said on Monday. The Building Societies Association BSA said net lending was...
Tags: Housing Market, Society, Loans, Oukbs
News items 2008-06-30
What Is the Business of Business?
By recasting the long-running argument about the role of business in society, companies can dislodge a debate that's now wedged between two seemingly incompatible points of view. The relationship between big business and society can be viewed as an implicit social contract, with obligations, opportunities, and mutual advantages. Large companies...
Tags: McKinsey & Co., strategy
White papers
WPP Rebranding Da Vinci to Synarchy: Dumb Move or Dumbest Move?
My colleague David Weir has an excellent run down on the deal between WPP and Yahoo's online ad exchange (two failing giants huddling together in the cold, cold night from what I can tell). But the story out of WPP that's really lighting up the ad blogosphere is their decision...
Tags: Society, Blogosphere, Wikipedia, Synarchy, Government, Wiki, Vertical Industries, Blogging, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Jake Swearingen
Blog posts 2008-05-16
How To Achieve Time Management In Multicultural Society
Our society comprises all types of people with established beliefs, modern ways, structure, gender, roles, class, et cetera. To create a time management scheme that works we have to think about many factors, since we are concerned with other people all the time. This paper explains how to achieve time...
Tags: time management
White papers 2007-12-01
Exploring Enterprise Systems And Management Control In The Information Society
Society is evolving from the industrial society towards the information society where information technology plays a crucial role. Few IT innovations have had as much impact on business organizations in the past years as Enterprise Systems ES. These systems affect most functions in the organization as they support and standardize...
Tags: Operational planning, business process, information technology
White papers 2005-12-10
Project Management in Society
This paper seeks to reflect on and celebrate what Project Management has achieved for society during its development as a profession, and what will be involved in ensuring its relevance to society into the future. Perhaps more importantly, the paper attempts to define a grand vision for the profession of...
Tags: Society, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
White papers 2005-11-30
Legal Metadata, Open Content Distribution and Collecting Societies
This paper describes the economic impact of legal metadata and open content in information society. The paper also analyses the challenges that individual digital open licensing poses to collecting societies. The paper first defines open content and the meaning of legal metadata. It then concentrates to the economics of open...
Tags: Helsinki University, Society, Metadata
White papers 2004-12-16
"Changing Society and The Challenges This Poses to 'The University'"
New technology, changing expectations and globalisation among other factors are resulting in huge social, economic and cultural change, and in rapid increases in the pace of change. This has implications for the aims and objectives of change making activity, the degree to which these are explicitly stated and shared ,...
Tags: Implication, Society, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
White papers 2004-09-01
Beefing Up Security
From the executive summary: ‘Walking into most office buildings today is an entirely different experience than it was just few years ago. Employee identification cards, numerous security guards, the use of metal detectors, and mandatory guest passes are standard procedure in the post-9/11 office. Yet, the security infrastructure at educational...
Tags: PRIMEDIA Business Corp., security
White papers 2004-09-01
Total Value of Innovation: Choosing Metrics That Matter in the Health Sciences
Society has long recognized the priceless benefits of health sciences innovation, including longer life span and improved health status. However, many forces driving our public policies equate the value of innovation to the current cost and rate of spending on prescription drugs. Often excluded from this discussion are short-term, intermediate,...
Tags: Leadership, Benefits, Strategy, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Ernst & Young LLP, innovation, health care, benefit, industry
White papers 2004-05-27
“My Name Is…”
People with permanent mental and/or physical disabilities need special care and attention from the society, at large. The need of the hour is to uplift the spirits of such individuals and make them feel an integral part of the society. The Webcast profiles some such individuals. Their challenges in accessing...
Tags: Webcast, health care
Webcasts 2003-12-12
Critical Infrastructures Under Threat: Learning From the Anthrax Scare
Conventional thinking in emergency and crisis management focuses on the application of codified procedures to unforeseen contingencies. Modern society's increased dependence on critical infrastructures and the emerging vulnerabilities of these large-scale networks create challenges that are hard to meet with conventional tools of crisis management. This paper discusses the inherent...
Tags: crisis management, vulnerability, network, tool
White papers 2003-09-01
Treatment of Tuberculosis American Thoracic Society, CDC, and Infectious Diseases Society of America
The recommendations in this document are intended to guide the treatment of tuberculosis in settings where mycobacterial cultures, drug susceptibility testing, radiographic facilities, and second-line drugs are routinely available. In areas where these resources are not available, the recommendations provided by the World Health Organization, the International Union against Tuberculosis,...
Tags: Treatment, Society
White papers 2003-06-20
Staying Out Of The Headlines: Ensuring An Ethical Organization
From the executive summary: ‘Two strategies viz. ensuring ethical leadership and establishing ethical support systems can help associations reassure nervous stakeholders that they are living up to society's higher standard of ethics for non-profit organizations. Associations exist, as do all corporations, at the pleasure of society. In exchange for the...
Tags: ethics, leadership, strategy
White papers 2003-06-01
Music Collecting Societies and Webcasting
Most academic work on copyright collecting societies has focused on the relation between the society and the collecting societies or on the external efficiency of collecting societies. The paper explores the issue in the context of web casting licensing arrangements and discusses the effects of the collecting societies to the...
Tags: webcasting, career, agreement, pricing strategy
White papers 2003-05-22
The Dangers of Copyright Levies in a Digital Environment
Copyright levies are currently in use in a number of countries to compensate rights holders for non-commercial private copying of their works using analog technologies, such as tape recordings. Where used, levies are imposed on equipment, and/or recording media. These levies are generally collected by national "collecting societies," independent groups...
Tags: negotiation, environment
White papers 2003-05-13
The Business/Society Relationship
A business organization has its physical existence in a society. Therefore, the policies, practices and philosophy of the organization have far reaching effects on the society. The organization, in turn, has a definitive responsibility towards society. It is, in many ways, accountable and responsible for prevailing societal trends. The societal...
Tags: Society, Business Organization, University Of Utah
Presentations 2003-01-01
The Age of the Anti-Leader - One Leaders Perspective
Even in this modern western society one has to distinguish between the positive role of those individuals who beneficially change our times and organizations to attain remarkable achievement, and the mere rabble who simply clawed their way to the top of their heap. In our society, people have made a...
Tags: weLEAD Inc., leader, leadership
White papers 2003-01-01
MSMS Launched Successful Outreach Program With Local Societies
The feeling of trust and harmony is imperative for efficient coordination between State and local societies. The aforesaid feeling serves as a strong foundation for mutual understanding of various regulatory bodies in the commercial and medical domain. The case study examines how a society effectively collaborated with local associations. The...
Tags: Case Study, Center For Association Leadership, Society
Case studies 2003-01-01
Corporate Social Responsibility: What?s The Real Link To Company Performance?
Corporate code of ethics is the documented set of values, laws, principles, and practices that an organization adheres to in carrying out its day-to-day operations. This enables the organization to be sensitive and responsible towards society. The organization exists in a society. Therefore, it is the duty of the organization...
Tags: Business ethics, Corporate law, Leadership, Marakon Associates, Corporate Social Responsibility, code of ethics, ethics, performance
White papers 2003-01-01
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