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Project Management 411

January 28th, 2008

Carbon Trading Heats Up with Global Warming

With global warming firmly pointed at the US wealth generating industrial machine, federal schemes for regulating carbon producing industries and an emerging carbon trading system impact all companies. CFO magazine lays out the pros and cons of all of this in it’s article on “Carbon Trading“. The message is clearly to be aware and start […]

By Bob Turek -- 1 comment

January 26th, 2008

Business Model Innovation is A Key to Surviving in Shaky Economic Climate

“Companies should devote R&D to new business models just as they do to new products. A new CEO today will need to preside over a changed business model three or four times in his career, but no one really knows how to do it. It’s not taught in business schools, and there is much to […]

By Bob Turek -- 2 comments

January 25th, 2008

Innovating Through Competition as the Economy Tightens

Think of a business model where a firm provides services with a global freelance resource base: is it writing? editing? software development? CFO magazine’s article on “Gaming the System” introduces TopCoder, not only as a global freelance software development operation, but one that has participants compete on providing the best code for it’s application work. […]

By Bob Turek -- 4 comments