Mindin your own business

Minding Your Own Business? Understanding Indifference as a Virtue

Mine Your Own Business: Market-Structure Surveillance Through Text Mining

W 2.0 provides gathering places for Internet users in blogs, forums, and chat rooms. These gathering places leave footprints in the form of colossal amounts of data regarding consumers’ thoughts, beliefs, experiences, and even interactions. In this paper, we propose an approach for firms to explore online user-generated content and “listen” to what customers write about their and their competit...

Create Your Own Business Simulation Lab to Drill Your Teams in Better Decision Making

This article explores how teams learn and stresses on the importance of business simulation as a vital tool to improve organizational decision-making capabilities. The article also outlines a clear business-driven roadmap involving ten steps for organizations and enterprises who wish to develop their own in-house business simulation capabilities. The huge interest in the ‘Serious Games’ area, w...

Paint Your Own Pictures

In these days when everyone seems interested in "art therapy" this book is very timely and it is of special interest to our readers that the author has had considerable experience with psychiatric patients. He has dedicated it to Dr.

Grow-your-own synapses

cientists have discovered a new function for amyloid precursor protein (APP), a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The finding may reveal how APP gets mixed up with the enzymes that make it go bad. APP has an evil reputation. The and secretases transform it into amyloidpeptide, a component of the plaques that riddle the brain in Alzheimer’s disease. Previous work by Larry Goldstein (Univesi...