Monthly Archives: July 2008

Foundations of strategy

I am cur­rently involved with a class known as INTBUS 202: Found­a­tions of strategy. The course is inten­ded to get people exper­i­enced in using the main tools of strategy; such as SWOT, Porter’s five forces, and so on. As I’ve noted else­where (“here”:http://www.petersmith.org/blog/archives/2008/06/judgement.html, “here”:http://www.petersmith.org/blog/archives/2008/06/judgement-1.html, and a bit “here”:http://www.petersmith.org/blog/archives/2008/06/self-review-of-intbus-202.html), For me, one of the con­sequen­tial over­arch­ing …

07/24/2008 – 14:26 | By Peter | Posted in Teaching | Comments Off

Interesting place to visit

“Andrew is get­ting fit”:http://www.andrewisgettingfit.com/ and I’m envi­ous “Jaffa Pete”:http://jafapete.wordpress.com/ is thought provoking

07/18/2008 – 14:33 | By Peter | Posted in Jottings | Comments Off

Google mail

It seems that the “UoA”:http://www.auckland.ac.nz has moved its stu­dent email ser­vices over to “Google’s”:http://www.google.com/ “gmail”:http://www.gmail.com/ ser­vice. This means that all the old address (UPI@​ec.​auckland.​ac.​nz) will move to the new domain auck​landuni​.ac​.nz. No doubt this has been done to ease the redir­ec­tion of mail, but it does com­plic­ate search­ing from mail from the uni­ver­sity — I …

07/18/2008 – 13:59 | By Peter | Posted in IT | Comments Off

Slideshare

I’ve come across yet another com­munity site … it allows people to share slides. | View | Upload your own

07/18/2008 – 13:48 | By Peter | Posted in IT | Comments Off