How To Use Your Brain To Beat The Bankers By: Alex Robinson | - If I asked you what GE, Disney, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft had in common your immediate response would probably be that they are some of the most successful companies of the past century, and you would be right. There is however, also another common factor that binds these companies together. They were all started during times when the world economy suffered a serious downturn:
The 'knowledge Economy' What Can It Do For Me? By: Alex Robinson | - For centuries international trade was built on one simple maxim: Take something from where it is plentiful and sell it somewhere where it is scarce. The success of this, the most basic of economic models, depended not only on sourcing commodities (pepper, tea, gold, coal etc.) but also on effective delivery systems (ships, road, railways etc.). This meant that physical items had to be moved, sometimes over vast distances, to keep the economies of the world ticking over. This economic model is, a ... Tags:knowledge management, international trade, knowledge harvesting, doxmart, knowledge economy, intellectual property, sharing, selling
