3ruce’s Blog

• Football Refs DO Favour Home Teams – Study – UK News Headlines
  What weve always knows, refs are biased
  (tags: football academics statistics bias)
• Giant screen, bold visions
  Walls as televisions!
  (tags: tv research technology innovation academics)
• Global Services | Sourcing & Management | Reducing Large Cost Adjustments in Outsourcing Contracts
  Cost pressures in outsourcing
  (tags: costs outsourcing contracts economics negotiation)
• The Business Innovation Insider: The best decision-making theories
  Decision making theories
  (tags: decision_making theory academics research psychology behaviours)
• The Business Innovation Insider: A photo history of LED calculator watches
  Cool, old skool watches – where can I get one!
  (tags: watches cool old jewelry)
• HR needs to get to grips with organisational strategy – 30/10/2006 – Personnel Today
  HR and strategy, a tricky mix!
  (tags: hr strategy organisational_design conflict)
• Cognitive Edge: Selling new ideas to an organisation
  Selling new ideas into corporates
  (tags: ideas sales strategy principles crossing_the_chasm)
• MIT SMR Article, “Strategic Outsourcing: Leveraging Knowledge Capabilities” – Summer 1999 James Brian Quinn. Reprint 4041
  Outsource to focus on 2 to 4 core competencies… see Hagel etc.
  (tags: outsourcing competencies processs organisational_design unbundling strategy value value_networks)
• Outsourcing – What Causes Outsourcing Failures?
  More on the research and failure of outsourcing
  (tags: outsourcing problems relationships metrics research)
• Flowser On Amazon
  An interesting visual browser for amazon and others!
  (tags: amazon Flash browsers metaphor methods innovation software cool navigation)
• The Stalwart: Google 3Q06 Features
  Google and a transparent, piece by piece approach to features and innovation
  (tags: innovation features product_development google microsoft comparison transparency)
• Four Groups
  Four Groups have developed a new process that enables managers and executives to understand the link between behaviour and performance in the workplace. Combining a new model of behaviour and software, it is now possible to quantify and predict the effect
  (tags: business collaboration management personality organisational_design organisational_interfaces cool_companies)

• Hampson, S.E., & Goldberg, L.R. (2006) A first large cohort study of personality trait stability over the 40 years between elementary school and midlife. – Google Search
  Longditudinal study (40 years) on reliabilty of the Big Five
  (tags: psychology psychometrics reliability academics research metrics big_five)
• Your Free EFT Get Started Package: 79 Page EFT Manual & Popular Newsletter
  An EFT manual
  (tags: development health information psychology resources therapy behaviours learning)
• Migrants add £37bn to UK’s wealth
  Migrant labour works well for the UK’s economy
  (tags: immigration work employment economics research growth gdp metrics)

• Inside Facebook by Karel Baloun
  An interesting early employees look at facebook, as told direct from an insider
  (tags: founders startup stories strategy cool_companies growth funding)
• CYBAEA.NET :: The 3/2 rule revisited
  More on employee productivity and efficiency when compared to company size
  (tags: efficiency productivity profitability research metrics processs)
• The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
  What can kill a startup?
  (tags: startup problems management funding entrepreneur development critical values)
• The Outsourcing Weblog: Cost: Not the Driving Force in Outsourcing
  The drivers of outsourcing
  (tags: outsourcing principles efficiency strategy relationships)
• The Business Innovation Insider: The Reluctant Guru
  Thoughts on consulting and how less complexity appeals
  (tags: consultancy complex simple demand solutions problems perceptions)

Alba / Aubade, originally uploaded by Don_Gato.

Protruding

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Firms point to biometric future
  Cross Match preview of FaceCheck for biometric security
  (tags: biometrics biology security imaging digital_face_technology)
• Cross Match: Press Release
  More on the Face Match technique
  (tags: biometrics biology security imaging digital_face_technology)
• The PCA Group : Home
  Predictive Customer Analytics
  (tags: crm prediction analysts metrics cool_companies)
• RecruiterMagazine.co.uk – HR centre launched
  HR strategy centre launched an Lancaster Uni
  (tags: academics hr strategy research)
• Bright future for human capital management – IT Week
  More on the growth of human capital
  (tags: human_capital growth markets research metrics)
• The Advantages Outsourcers Bring to Their Clients
  Core competencies of outsourcing, what they are good at
  (tags: outsourcing processs competencies resources value)
• Johnnie Moore’s Weblog: Neuroscience of change
  The biology and neuroscience of change, behaviour and learning
  (tags: learning biology behaviours psychology research neurology)
• Future Exploration Blog: The greater the uncertainty, the greater the value of scenario planning
  Scenario planning and the demand for it from business
  (tags: scenario_planning execution project_management strategy)

Days 365 – Day 19, originally uploaded by chazomatic.

Twisted

My Very Own Ferris Wheel!, originally uploaded by Tex Flix.

Blue sky thinking

Corridoio d’Incurvatura, originally uploaded by Johnny Blood.

Curved

• Talent Management Blog – HR Best Practices Drive Results in Small Firms Too
  More on the results of good HR practices
  (tags: hr metrics research strategy value perceptions profitability)
• Time for HR to reflect on its image problem – 24/10/2006 – Personnel Today
  HR’s image problem and people’s perceptions of the function
  (tags: hr perceptions value problems metrics research)