Homme d'affaires malgré moi
L’âme de Patagonia est son fondateur, Yvon Chouinard, un homme qui essaie de préserver la planète, polaire après polaire. C’est aussi un grimpeur, un surfeur, un homme d’affaires, un écologiste et un philanthrope reconnu pour ses réussites originales. Dans « Homme d’affaires malgré moi, confessions d’un alter-entrepreneur » (version française éditée aux Editions Vuibert, octobre 2006), Chouinard raconte sa vie extraordinaire et l’histoire tant attendue de son entreprise devenue légendaire aux États-Unis. « Homme d’affaires malgré moi, confessions d’un alter-entrepreneur » montre comment, en gardant un esprit avant-gardiste, il est possible d’allier travail, loisirs et responsabilité citoyenne – et en plus de réussir. Couverture intérieure du livre original en anglais:Le livre tant attendu d’Yvon Chouinard, grimpeur, homme d’affaires et écologiste légendaire, fondateur et propriétaire de Patagonia, l’une des entreprises les plus inspiratrices.
eBay’s foray into social commerce
Back in the mid 1990s I was trumpeting this little company called AuctionWeb – a place where people could go on this new thing called the “internet” to buy or sell any number of different goods. While we were writing about it, some other people were investing small sums of money in it, which eventually turned into billion dollar equity stakes in an online behemoth now known as eBay. While it was nice to be proven right, there might still be a little regret over not getting in on the ground floor. Since then eBay has had some ups and downs, with various people questioning the logic behind multi billion dollar acquisitions of companies like PayPal and Skype. But through it all, the core auction site and the powerful network effects built into it have remained an almost unassailable growth and profit making machine. Our feedback system is based on transactions, as opposed to determining whether I can trust this person through some other relationship other than a transaction.
A Project Management Glossary
Martin Burns Member info User since: 26 Apr 1999 Articles written: 143 Project Managers - can't live with 'em, can't lock 'em in a filing cabinet in a disused basement toilet with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'. Accountable The accountable person in a team may or may not be the one who actually does the work in question, but she would be the one whose job it is to make sure it gets done, and would be the contact person for the clients and/or project manager. Aligned People and plans are said to be aligned when they're in agreement. Business User The people within the client who will own and/or operate the system or site you're producing. Business Requirements The tasks which the stakeholders need the system/site to perform, to fulfil business needs. Buy-in Change Request Process (aka CYA for developers) Communications Plan (aka Comms Plan) Your project is changing the world - fantastic! Constraints The business can (and often does) ask for the moon on a stick. Deliverable Phases
studio 501c
Beth Kanter, a thought leader in the world of nonprofit blogging, recently shared some useful criteria to help nonprofits decide whether to blog or not. While I agree with most of them, I think that two (yes, if you want to enable many voices; no, if things must be vetted by a central authority) could, if interpreted narrowly, inhibit some nonprofits from blogging. There is at least one model that doesn't meet all of her criteria, but would, I think, be a great approach for many nonprofits. I’ve found that these misconceptions lead some nonprofit leaders to believe that blogging will require them to publish in-depth commentary on their nonprofit’s issue every day, to divulge personal habits, to engage endlessly in Web conversations, or to let their "freak flag fly." Even if only one person posts to the blog on behalf of the whole organization, I think it’s best, and more in keeping with the more personal nature of blogging, if the poster’s name is published with each entry. Thoughts?
Business Model Generation
eBay and Craigslist = a failed marriage?
The New York Times recently ran a great story / interview with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark in which he addresses some of the issues arising from eBay’s lawsuit against the company. eBay bought a 28% stake in the online classifieds site back in August 2004, a purchase that seemed to line-up much better with the online auctioneers core strategy compared to the ill-timed purchase of Skype. But eBay wasn’t content to stop with Craigslist and bought Marktplaats.nl later that year, launched Kijiji in March 2005, and rounded it all off with the purchase of Gumtree a few months later. And while these latter three acquisitions all focused on the European market, in July of 2007 eBay decided to extend Kijiji into the US and Canadian markets, thus representing a direct challenge to Craigslist. And therein lies the perceived disconnect between the MO held by the folks at Craigslist and the profit-seeking orientation of eBay. But crowdsourcing classifieds hasn’t meant giving up profits.
Alice Waters' Crusade For Better Food
This story was first published on March 15, 2009. It was updated on June 10, 2009. When it comes to food, Alice Waters is a legend. At age 65, she has done more to change how we Americans eat, cook and think about food than anyone since Julia Child. Waters was only 27 years old in 1971 when she opened her French bistro Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., today considered one of the finest restaurants not just in the United States but in the world. Waters has produced eight cookbooks, but she's more famous as the mother of a movement that preaches about fresh food grown in a way that's good for the environment. You might think this appeals only to the Prius-driving, latte-sipping upper crust, but Waters' ideas have gone mainstream, as 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl found out when this story first aired in March. It all started at Waters' culinary temple, Chez Panisse. It's not just the cooking that has made her famous: it's the ingredients. "You started a revolution in food.
Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0
FEATURE Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0 by Karen A. Coombs A year and a half ago when I started as the head of libraries’ Web services, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries was undertaking a project to dramatically reshape its Web site. The site had been in a state of flux and it needed a new structure for both managing and organizing it. An informal needs assessment revealed that staff members wanted to control their own content and to have a way to make the site more engaging and interesting to their users. What is “Web 2.0” though? Further discussion and reading led me to design six pillars of Web 2.0 that we wanted to use as the foundation for rebuilding our library Web site. 1. 1. Radical decentralization is the first pillar of Web 2.0 that I would base the libraries’ new Web site on. One unique piece of the UH Libraries’ new CMS is its wiki-like nature. 2. Reusable content also means that people can easily create pages that combine existing content. 3.
