The News Review:
- Surgient Upgrades Virtualized Test Lab Management Tool
- Crisis management
- Corporates seek advice from management thinkers
- Seminar on logistics management
- The Case for Practice Management Systems
Surgient Upgrades Virtualized Test Lab Management Tool
InformationWeek – Mar 21, 2008
4 supports VMware’s latest version of its hypervisor — ESX Server 3. 5 — and will support Microsoft’s Hyper-V when it becomes available.
Crisis management
Washington Times – Mar 21, 2008
The Big Speech is a key characteristic of political movies, from “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” to “West Wing,” Slate’s David Edelstein once wrote: “The candidate either bravely affirms principles over politics and is transfigured, or cravenly yields to expediency and is damned. Obama’s Big Speech about race in Philadelphia went further than that. He bravely fought to save his presidential campaign by affirming principles over expediency as an argument for improving politics.
Corporates seek advice from management thinkers
Economic Times – Mar 21, 2008
Over 40 Tata CXOs were in attendance at the programme at the Tata Management
Training Centre (TMTC), where Kant requested , and eventually got, a separate
session with Palepu for the Tata Motors? top management. The
idea of the Tata ACE mini-truck was born out of this session and Palepu returned
to Pune three months later to meet a larger team of 170 engineers and refine the
plans for what would turn out to be one of Tata Motors? most successful
products in recent times. The ACE is not the only Tata product to
come out of an academic intervention. Last month when Ratan Tata unveiled the
Nano, it was a culmination of an idea that had its genesis in the work of CK
Prahalad.
Seminar on logistics management
Hindu – Mar 21, 2008
Top managers and professionals from CIAL, Railways, Cochin Port Trust, DP World and Reliance Retail will discuss logistics issues in their respective areas. Vice-Chancellor of Cusat Gangan Pratap will inaugurate the seminar. The performance of a logistic system depends on the effective collaboration and integrated functioning of many elements and service providers. There is need to bring the professionals working in different areas of logistics to share their knowledge.
The Case for Practice Management Systems
Law.com (subscription) – Mar 21, 2008
They’ve always promised to make law firms and law departments more efficient, but have often fallen short of those promises. In many ways, over the years, the fault should be shared between the high expectations of lawyers and the unmet promises of the developers.