I had the pleasure of being invited to a New Media dinner at Strauss Zelnick’s apartment in New York. It was a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with old Internet friends and to meet a slew of interesting characters. Jason Hirschhorn formerly from Sling Media was easily the funniest person in the room and made quite an impression with his stories, humor and impertinent yet astute commentary.

After the dinner, we all partook in a discussion on the future of media moderated by David Remnick from the New Yorker. The discussion ranged far and wide from Fred Wilson’s “There is no truth, I only want to read what the masses are thinking” to a few journalists from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal vehemently defending the value of investigative journalism...  

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The Forrester Blog For Information & Knowledge Management Professionals had a nice post on The Growing Importance Of Enterprise Risk Management. One of the key points was this one:

2) They will focus on driving risk management into business decisions. Risk management is not new. Enterprises have internal auditors, Chief Risk Officers, and others ...

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Structure facilitates the creation and implementation of strategy and the overall coordination of the enterprise. Organizational structure determines the placement of power and authority. It embraces two relationships: who is responsible for what, and who reports to whom. Organizations can become more “structure influenced” when they hit market maturity, there is a decline in competition, their industry is stabile, tasks are routine, or they ope... read more >>

With the completion of the Cap Bon wind project next year, Tunisia will produce 180 megawatts of wind energy, making it the top producer in Africa. Soon, the Cap Bon wind turbines will be emulated by three other plants situated North of Tunisia, near Bizerta. The plants whose works should be completed by 2009, will produce some [...] read more >>

Change is hard, managing change is even harder. As I mentioned in my previous post, change, even the idea of change, generates resistance. Therefore, change management is about effectively overcoming resistance to successfully achieve the desired results.. As the above image highlights (note: original source is unknown), many key factors need to be aligned for [...] read more >>