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, …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …