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Extracted 18AUG2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/15879359?story_id=15879359 There is more to this than simply cutting costs to the bone. Frugal products need to be tough and easy to use... Frugal often also means being sparing in the use of ...
Read MoreExtracted 17AUG2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/08/12/product-documentation-marketing/ Documentation is the language that accompanies a product, often outlining its development, design, technical language and marketing strategy in clear, definit...
Read MoreExtracted 17AUG2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/21525909?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/thebalancingact Boosted by capital inflows, by record prices for commodity exports, by sound policies and by a heady expansion in domestic credit, the region saw eco...
Read MoreExtracted 16AUG2011 from http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/media.nsf/content/SelectedPressRelease?OpenDocument... Washington, D.C., August 15, 2011—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Secto...
Read MoreExtracted 12AUG2011 from http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2011/08/10/want-a-fast-response-supply-chain-f... "What is needed [in a dynamic business environment] is a supply chain of rapid response…Many people who work in the materials business [and] ...
Read MoreExtracted 12AUG2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/08/10/social-network-comparison/
Read MoreExtracted 12AUG2011 from http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2011/08/09/announcing-ushahidi-v2-1-tunis/ [Ushahidi] announce the release of version 2.1 (Tunis) of the Ushahidi platform Reports. The new faceted reports page allows a user to filter re...
Read MoreExtracted 12AUG2011 from http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2011/08/11/guest-commentary-does-the-supply-ch... Guest commentary for Logistics Viewpoints by Chad Collins Sound business decisions about using technology cannot be made if the business owne...
Read MoreExtracted 12AUG2011 from http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/meyer-kirby/2011/08/the-social-impact-bond-as-iron.html The social impact bond is a new financing approach that lets societies benefit from risk-taking on new ideas for social programs, without ask...
Read MoreExtracted 12AUG2011 from www.scribd.com/doc/62116273 The Water Anchor manages a group called the Rural Water Supplies Collaborative (RWSC) on Scoop, the World Bank’s internal social collaboration platform. RWSC is widely admired and has the trappi...
Read MoreExtracted 09AUG2011 from http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-cloud-future-business-promise-su... In this first of five projected reports, the London School of Economics’ Outsourcing Unit defines what cloud computing is, its technological ...
Read MoreExtracted 09AUG2011 from http://issuu.com/world.bank.publications/docs/9780821388617?cid=EXT_TwitterWB... This Little Data Book provides data for more than 20 key indicators on business environment and private sector development for more than 200 ...
Read MoreExtracted 09AUG2011 from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/success_comes_from_better_data.html Many organizations have spent the last few years hiring top analysts based on the belief that they create differentiation. Smart companies such as Google ...
Read MoreExtracted 09AUG2011 from https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Globalization/Remapping_your_strat... AUGUST 2011 • Pankaj Ghemawat Shake up your thinking by looking at the world from the perspective of a particular country, industry, or compa...
Read MoreExtracted 09AUG2011 from http://www.worldtradewt100.com/articles/3pls-the-next-big-idea-march-2005 The overpowering presence of China continues to have tremendous repercussions in the North American market. China has become such an important playe...
Read MoreExtracted 09AUG2011 from http://www.worldtradewt100.com/articles/3pls-the-next-big-idea-march-2005 A complaint heard in industry sessions is that companies are looking for more ideas and fresh solutions from their logistics providers than they are...
Read MoreExtracted 09AUG2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/08/09/mobile-workers-infographic/
Read MoreExtracted 09AUG2011 from http://mashable.com/2011/08/09/small-innovations/ ... Thanks to this demise of linear innovation, the next big thing isn’t going to take years of research and development. It won’t be developed in a big scientific lab by d...
Read MoreExtracted 05AUG2011 from http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/emerging-vs-developed-econo.../tw/te/dc/powershift REAL GDP in most rich economies is still below its level at the end of 2007. In contrast, emerging economies’ output has ...
Read MoreExtracted 05AUG2011 from http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39231&Cr=private&Cr1=sector Three million poor people in Africa and South Asia, the majority of them women, will gain access to low-cost mobile phone numbers as part of technolo...
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