Friday, September 14, 2007

Keeping up-to-date on trends in project management

The Frank Lowy Library also supports the work of Australian School of Business Executive Programs. This week I've been doing a little work compiling useful URLs for the Managing Project Managers course.

Here are just five of the project management blogs which I found.
The complete list, including podcasts and other interesting stuff, is available here.

Have I missed anything? Please let me know.

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Weekly blog round up

Ok, it's been a little more than a week, but these ones were worth waiting for :)

Practically irrelevant?, Economist.com, 28 August 2007
Whether academic research actually produces anything that is useful to the practice of business, or even whether it is its job to do so, are questions that can provoke vigorous arguments on campus.

Lynda M. Applegate, Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage, HBS Working Knowledge, 4 September 2007
Disruptions in the business environment cause economic shifts that destabilize industries, companies, and even countries. They allow new entrants or forward-thinking established players to introduce innovations—in products, markets, or processes—that transform the way companies do business and consumers behave.

Seth Godin, The Scarcity Shortage, Seth's Blog
Scarcity, after all, is the cornerstone of our economy. The best way to make a profit is by trading in something that's scarce. ... So how do you deal with the shortage of scarcity?

Andrea Coombes, It's Time to Stand Up to Your Email, Wall Street Journal, 26 August 2007
Another strategy to take control of your in-box: Turn off "you have mail" alerts that interrupt you as you work. Instead, decide on a regular schedule to check your in-box, whether it's once every 30 minutes or three times a day.