Business Information Alert articles from January 2006

Business Information Alert archives from January 2006

Researching financial services: a global perspective part 3--keeping up to date.(business information professionals )
January 1, 2006... In this final article in the series on financial services, I will cover the sources business information professionals working in the sector need to keep their knowledge up to date. The sources covered in the second article (October 2005) arc...

From the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... In this issue, we have the final part of Sylvia James' series on research in the financial services sector. Here she tells you how to learn about the industry and how to keep up to date with new developments. In her typical chart format, she...

Attention searchers! Check out these retail specials.(services of online industry)(Website overview)
January 1, 2006... If retail industry research is your raison d'etre, you may want to change aisles. This is for us non-specialists who could use a fresh bunch of free facts and figures for a highly diverse sector. Since we cruised the retailing business for...

Specialty.(online services)(Website overview)
January 1, 2006... The proliferation of stand-alone designer/manufacturer "pop-up" or "flagship" stores, such as Disney and Fendi, has affected conventional department stores. Specialty retail, such as automobile, furniture, and gasoline lines, accounted for...

Good food data.(News and Trends)
January 1, 2006... The Grocery Manufacturers Association publishes the "Consumer Packaged Goods Financial Performance Report." It's an annual from 2003. www.gmabrands.com/ The National Association of Convenience Stores has Industry Reports & Statistics. ...

Flash.(News and Trends)
January 1, 2006... Multex has a new name--Reuter's Research-On-Demand--reflecting the completion of Reuter's acquisition of the Investment analyst report database. Terese Mulkern Terry is a business information specialist at the Lippincott Library of the...

Identity: Transforming Performance Through Integrated Identity Management.(Management)
January 1, 2006... Mark Rowden. 2004. Gower/Ashgate Publishing Company. Hardcover. 256p. ISBN: 0-566-08618-2. $94.95. Now simply called Identity, this is a revised and expanded update to Mark Rowden's first book, The Art of Identity (2000). Both editions can...

Return on Customer: Creating Maximum Value From Your Scarcest Resource.(Management)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Don Peppers & Martha Rogers. 2005. Currency. Hardcover. 304p. ISBN: 0-385-51030-6. $24.95. In Return on Customer, Peppers and Rogers, founding partners of Peppers & Rogers Group (a division of Carlson Marketing Group), answer one of...

Marketing Planning for Financial Services.(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Roy Stephenson. 2005. Gower/Ashgate Publishing. Hardcover. 198p. ISBN: 0-566-08554-2. $144.95. Marketing Planning for Financial Services was written by Roy Stephenson, who is now a marketing and strategic planning consultant, and who...

Million Dollar Networking: The Sure Way to Find, Grow, and Keep Your Business.(Nonstop Networking: How To Improve Your Life, Luck and Career)(Book Review)
January 1, 2006... Andrea R. Nierenberg. 2005. Capital Books. Hardcover. 26p. ISBN.: 1-933102-05-5. $19.95. When the press release for this book came into my e-mail, I almost deleted it because I thought it would be about multi-level marketing. However, I...