Management

This site has lots of useful links relating to New Product Development
For those who like to read around general issues of business and industry the free subscription for "McKinsey Quarterly" might be worth a look
War, Chaos, and Business: Modern Business Strategy http://www.belisarius.com/
The 1998 Competitiveness White Paper
JBEM Stage 2 forum
Knowledge@Wharton (USA)[.pdf] the latest business insights, information and research" on a bi-weekly basis
The DTI publication "A Benchmark For Business" refers to the contribution if SMEs to the UK's economy- page 16. The article is downloadable. I don't have the direct link, but you can go in through the Treasury's page:http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/
Competitiveness White Paper
Index of the Massachusetts Innovation Economy
The Cathedral and the Bazaar Not only is it one of the most cited works in software management, it is also entertaining to read (freely downloadable)
The Corporate Library "is intended to serve as a central repository for research, study and critical thinking about the nature of the modern global corporation, with a special focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management, their boards and their shareowners"
DTI Management Best Practice site
World Economic Situation and Forecast for 1999 [.pdf, 61p.]
The Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report and Financial Statement and Budget Report
Economist subscribers pages (011578 exp 25/12/98 CJZQ80342)
Superfactory lists all the main management techniques / expressions (eg 5S, Benchmarking, Kaizen, etc) and gives a summary of each one. It then gives links to websites covering the topics in more detail, and also lists of books on each subject
Biz/ed Virtual FactoryVirtual factory to give students an opportunity to apply their production, accounting, and marketing skills to real life business and also has a link to a fully detailed on-line model of the UK economy

MISC HMT PUBLICATIONS Treasury publications on line

On December 2 the World Bank released a new 200 page annual report on the global economy which contained thinly veiled criticism of the International Monetary Fund and US Treasury's handling of the Asian financial crisis
ABC Directory of UK Business & Management Courses browse the directory by location, mode of learning and type of qualification
There is a wealth of project management related information at the Association for Project Management Site (Scottish Branch) at http://www.infoser.com/apm/index.html There are links to other useful resources. Their bulletin board conatined some interesting topics.
Work Right (working hours and the social chapter) (also check out the DTI on-line publications if any) World Economic Outlook--IMF [.pdf] a semi-annual examination of recent world economic developments and future prospects . A 28-page statistical appendix is also included with financial growth indicators by region.
Institute of Public Policy research (Promoting Prosperity, A Business Agenda for Britain) Management Studies Onlinea "periodic journal of management theory and practice." Each issue concentrates on one major theme
Andersen Consulting
FT Mastering Management
The Enterprise Development Website
Joint Board for Engineering Management
Study Guides and strategies
Business Wire
Recent Advances in Manufacturing--Nottingham Trent University and EEVL
dti_publications
CBI trends/surveys
Business Processes Resource Centre- BPR, Reengineering
Lecture notes
More lecture notes
DTI Enterprise Zone THE site for small business
Guide to European Legal Databases
Scout Reports for Social Sciences UK mirror
Scout Reports for Social Sciences US site
Scout Reports for Business and Economics
Social Science Information Gateway

Six Sigma

SixSigma offers tools, calculators, methodologies, discussion forums, and much more to help any business achieve Six Sigma.

This is what six sigma is all about
http://www.rbsc.com/pages/sixsig.html

Go to the Glossary for some useful definitions
http://www.sixsigmaqualtec.com/

A way of doing it
http://www.airacad.com/transact.htm

Savings made in an insurance company
http://www.six-sigma.com/main.htm

What GE did
http://www.ge.com/edc/dcsixsig.htm

Not much info but good sell
http://www.six-sigma-academy.com/index.htm

Juran Consulting but not alive
http://www.six-sigma.net/

22 August 2007