Friday, November 09, 2007

Dina Keswani from the Johnson School

The content has been removed at Dina's request.


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3Di Analysis

Here is an interesting post on the potential of the 3di technologies
The output they created for this organization was thoughtful and thorough. One of the greatest rewards of being a professor is seeing the classroom content you are trying to convey being applied in new and meaningful ways by incredibly bright and enthusiastic students. I can honestly say that this particular independent study was one of those truly blissful moments in my teaching career. I am incredibly proud of what these NCSU MBA’s produced.

The other cool thing is that they crated useful assets that can help us all know more about how to move the enterprise 3Di agenda forward.

Here for example, is their analysis of 3Di Vendors. As fast as technology moves, I am sure that there are red dots on this table that will need to be updated almost immediately, but it is a great start.


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Christmas is here again

November is here in the full swing. The wind is cold, and the sun hardly comes out. The only consolation is the upcoming Christmas, which is about a month away now.

With Christmas comes gifts, and with gifts comes shopping and with shopping comes wish lists. So it is imperative that you make your wish lists for this year so that when you go shopping, it becomes easier for you to get what you are looking for. This is why I am going to tell you about Coupon Chief, the awesome site which lets you have all of the online coupons you always wished you had.

Here you would find everything, from the dell coupons to the Overstock coupons. So what are you waiting for? Head over to the site and get all those coupons before its too late.

MBA and your partner

Getting your wife to sponsor your MBA, read this
The finance question is a big one as well, with out a doubt. The simple answer is to look at it as a long-term investment. With this perspective, it's not really that much money and has a huge potential payoff. When considering schools in Europe, or anywhere for that matter, you can also save a significant amount by attending a one-year program vs. two-year. There are several great ones (IMD, INSEAD, etc.) just make sure that they fit with your plans. I'm a career changer myself, and I feel that it is important for me to attend a two-year program to facilitate the change. The most important difference is the internship opportunity you get with two-year programs. LBS is, in my opinion, the top two-year program in Europe (be sure to check out their new online brochure that’s got a ton of info and great videos embedded, found here: http://www.london.edu/mba/programmes13668.html ) so if you’re switching careers too, then definitely check it out along with IESE in Barcelona.


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Value of an MBA rises in Employers eyes

Thinking about an MBA? You might like to know this:
In its annual survey of corporate recruiters, GMAC found that employers planned to hire 18 percent more graduating MBAs or other graduate business students this year over last. In contrast, hires among candidates with only an undergraduate education were projected to fall.

Employers also planned to boost their hiring of other graduate school students as well as of candidates with experience direct from industry, but not by as much as business school grads. And according to Job Outlook 2007, an annual report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, more than half the employers (56 percent) that planned to hire candidates with master’s degrees in the past year had their sights set on MBAs.


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Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Sponsored Post : Friendsation

If you are one of those people like me who like to spend a lot of time on the internet, then this is the perfect site for you.

I just heard about Friendsation, the awesome new site which terrific features like Dating, to help you find real cool people, Live Chat to help you communicate effectively, and Chat to help you connect.

So what are you waiting for, move now, and head over to friensation to get the best out of your life.

Richie US5 - Best Friend

Tatu : Friend or Foe

Sponsored Post : roomster

Finding roomies was always tough. Well, atleast until the internet came around. Now its probably one of the easiest thing to do. And probably one of the most famous names which has come up recently is one which solves all your hassles about apartments, subletting and roommate searching - roomster.net.

Now why has this site come up so well, in so little time? It is because of the amazing list of features that you find on the site. Starting with the very basic Google Maps, to help you pinpoint the location, quick messages to communicate effectively, quick links to allow you to sort out the links easily, and Instant messenger integration to allow quick interaction.

Moreover, you will also find profiles of the hundreds of thousands who are already on the site, so that you can read profiles, and find out how cool those people really are, and find out if you will get along well. It also covers a huge number of cities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and is now said to be the largest community site for roommates, flatmates, shares, rentals in these three countries.

So there it is, technology helping you find ways to improve your roomie searching, and how cool is that. All we need to wait for is now, that when will technology find a way to make sure we dont' fight with those roomies that we find.

Hearing Aid

Hard Worknig Boys

Sponsored Post : GPS In Sight

Technology brings with it amazing ways to make our lives better. Sometimes it is something as small as the cell phone, and sometimes it can be the gigantic satellites. There is hardly any aspect of our lives which stays untouched by the technological advances. And the best part is the one technology leads to another, and then to something else. Just like there are mashups on the internet, there are new exciting mashups of all the technologies.

This is why I am going to tell you about an amazing use of technology for the businesses. Ever since I heard about it, I have been dying to talk about it because it's just so awesome. The great piece of technology I'm talking about is the GPS Insight vehicle tracking system. Now what is the GPS In sight vehicle tracking system?



It is a combination of hardware and software which helps you track your vehicles in real time. It uses satellites and the AT&T or T Mobile to provide you with highly accurate vehicle locations every 2 minutes throughout the US and Canada. This means that this piece of technology can provide you with complete activity detail, fuel consumption statistics, speed violation metrics, vehicle performance details, landmark activities, and more more features.

Along with the real time data, it also allows you to track the activity for the last 90 days, reports about reckless driving with completely accurate results from the machines engine, daily reports which are updated every two minutes, off hour and weekend use of vehicles, theft recovery, emission reports and many other details. Many of those are delivered in a way in which scientists say that you can understand well, that is using graphs and maps.

This awesome product also makes sure that you feel completely at home once you start using this product. This is why the makers have also started a GPS Insight support wiki for customers and a Blog for GPS vehicle tracking so that you can learn and find out more about what when where and how things are done, so that you can use them to the maximum.

Assuming you put up just 1 light duty and 1 heavy duty vehicle to be tracked via this system, the cost, it would just cost you about $69 over a month. This means that for just above $1 a day per vehicle you can enjoy all the benifits we discussed above. Considering the amount that you would save by using the product, it would be insanity not to go for this one.

So if your business uses a lot of vehicles, and of course you have the need to track them, then you have just the perfect product on your hands.

What GPS Thinks

N95 GPS Demo

Thursday, October 04, 2007

Sponsored Post : Narconon Stone Hawk Addiction Treatment

Addition is a poison which destroys people's lives. It is a disease which kills its host and its family. The only way to get over it is to allow drug treatment, but most of the addicts are in capable of seeing that they are suffering. This is why the inspiration for treatment has to come from an external source.

There are a lot of treatment centers available. Some close to your place, some far away, some are expensive and some fit inside your budget. Looking for them for one of your loved ones can be quite a daunting experience. And not just that you would like your loved one to be treated well.

This is why I am going to tell you about Narconon Stone Hawk Addiction Treatment. If you are looking a rehab center, then this is the place to go to. This is because they have the best staff that you would find, who would really care for you loved ones. Their website says that this is so because everybody there was once an addict or has stayed with one, so they know how important it is for you that your loved ones are taken care of. They also provide inpatient drug rehab and narconon. You can read more about it on their blog here

So in the end, if you are looking for a rehab center, head over to stone hawk, because it is probably the best place you can send your family too.

New Life Recovery.net

Addiction treatment centers

Sponsored Post : CRM Software evolved

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a broad term that covers concepts used by companies to manage their relationships with customers, including the capture, storage and analysis of customer, vendor, partner, and internal process information.

Ever since 1990s, CRMs have started becoming more and more advanced. All companies which had to handle a huge number of customers, could you do it on paper. They had to provide a more competent computerized systems to take care of their customers for them. This is where CRM/ERP solutions started moving in to the market.

Over the years that market has grown quite large. So much so that today most of the large, medium and small companies have crm in place to handle data from the customers. This is so because crm software has started becoming easier to find, and support has improved with more people working for the companies.

However, today I am going to talk about a slightly different kind of a company. Most CRMs run from the desktops and servers. In most small and medium sized businesses, you need to provide separate machines to handle all of it becuase they can get quite memory intensive. This is why, the makers of AIMPromote, came up with an online solution.

An important feature of the online hookup from aimpromote is to provide lead management. This is not something that you would find everywhere. Other than that AIMpromote has a significantly lower cost of implementation and total cost of ownership than our competitors for several reasons. There are no setup fees, and they even integrate your system with your website free of charge. Also, the ease of use and fast learning curve of our lead management system will keep your sales representatives working efficiently.

To give you and your marketing and sales team a hands on experience of working with aimpromote, the company also lets you have a 14 day free trial of the CRM solution. As discussed earlier, the software is so easy to use and maintain that within 14 days, you staff would be completely trained and would know how to operate the software well, and to find out its own features. All of this in just 14 days.

So if your company is looking for a software to handle customers and don't have a very high budget for the same. But you would like to provide your customers with the facilities like the big dogs, then you are looking at the roght place. AIM Promote will do for you what no over CRM software has ever done before - not waste your time learning the software, yet provide you with the facilities that you really need.

Wallstrip - Salesforce Inc. (CRM)

Microsoft CRM 3.0 : lemonade stand