Monthly Archives: June 2005

Born free

Today we moved Hedgey down into the garden. I’ve mod­i­fied his box so he can get out (and get back) if he wants to. Hedgey, is the hedge­hog we’ve been look­ing after for the past couple of months. I found him one lunch­time when I was out walk­ing. Hedge­hogs shouldn’t be out dur­ing the day,

Understanding strategic change: The contribution of archetypes

A romp through: bq. Green­wood, R., & Hin­ings, C. R. (1993). Under­stand­ing stra­tegic change: The con­tri­bu­tion of arche­types. _Academy of Man­age­ment Journal_, 36(5), 1052–1081. The abstract says: bq. We examined the concept of arche­type, impli­cit in a num­ber of con­tem­por­ary approaches to the study of organ­iz­a­tional design and change. Des­pite an emer­ging interest in arche­types,

An ideal husband

Lisa and I went to see Oscar Wilde’s _An ideal husband_ at the “Maidement Studio”:http://www.maidment.auckland.ac.nz/. A very enjoy­able romp through the mores of Vic­torian Eng­land. A solid per­form­ance. It was nice to see “Miriam Sharpe”:http://www.sbs.auckland.ac.nz/people/phd/sharpe.htm play­ing _Lady Chiltern_–I think we’ve pre­vi­ously seen her in “Sum­mer Shakespeare”:http://www.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/events/shakespeare/main.html The set was pretty good — I liked the

Frameworks revisited

I’ve just had my feed­back from the MBA class _Integrating Strategy_. Every­one one seems pretty happy except one per­son who gave me very low rat­ings. I struggled to make sense of this dis­par­ity until I read the com­ments that the stu­dent had made. bq. * Robust frame­work * Some of the cases are so vague

Why people come to this site.

I was look­ing at my web logs and the stat­ist­ics that are pro­duced for this site, and I was curi­ous why people come here. As you prob­ably know, when you use a search engine such as “Google”:http://www.google.com/ or “Yahoo”:http://www.yahoo.com inform­a­tion is passed about the site that ref­ered you (Yahoo or Google) along with the search

My Web Sites on MSN

Some­time ago I cre­ated a Pass­port account. In doing so a web folder was cre­ated in *My Net­work Places*. It appears as a _file_ called *My Web Sites on MSN*. All well and good. Now I have an iPod and I keep a copy of my_“C:Documents and Settings_ as I fig­ure all my doc­u­ments, etc

Some problems in market distribution

In his clas­sic art­icle, Arch W. Shaw explores _Some prob­lems in mar­ket distribution_ (Shaw, 1912). He describes how pro­duc­tion is only one half of industry; hav­ing pro­duced the product it needs to be dis­trib­uted. The choice of method to dis­trib­ute the product needs care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion. Selling dir­ect to cus­tom­ers, using one’s own salespeople, using whole­salers,