Business Information Alert articles from November 2001

Business Information Alert archives from November 2001

Commodities: What, where, and how.(Column)(Statistical Data Included)
November 1, 2001... We all receive the reports on commodities and their prices on our daily news programs. The talking heads tell us that the price of coffee plummeted in South America or that pork bellies hit an all-time high. Natural gas peaked earlier this...

From the editor.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... We finish up the Business Information Alert year with a look toward the future-- trading futures, that is. Since the commodities market has always been a mystery to me, I asked Bill Crowley to give us an easy-to-understand and brief primer on...

The city redux. (News & Trends).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Welcome back to the vibrant city of London, the snug center of European finance. This time our mouse leads the way. In addition to United Kingdom (U.K.) business information, our British cousins (Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, and Northern...

U.K. on the U.K. (News & Trends).(Web sites with business information)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The official U.K. national statistics gateway provides free historic and current data at www.statistics.gov.uk/themes. A new edition of Ernst & Young's Doing Business in the United Kingdom is in preparation. The EY series is free at their...

From the U.K. on the rest of the world. (News & Trends).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Her Majesty's Treasury provides copious historic and projected economic indicators. The 47-page Pocket Data Bank (for queen-size pockets obviously) includes annual data for the U.K. and the leading industrialized countries dating from 1980....

Back home. (News & Trends).(US business information services)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Hold your ears. Here comes the Echo Boomers (the U.S. Census calls them GenY) born between 1977 and 1994. The October 2001 issue of American Demographics reports that this group's favorite cable channel-MTV--has created a propensity toward loud...

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance. (General Business).
November 1, 2001... Burton S. Kaliski, ed. 2001. Macmillan Reference USA, an imprint of the Gale Group. Hardcover. 2v. 928p. ISBN: 0-02-865065-4. $240. The Encyclopedia of Business and Finance seeks to "summarize the body of knowledge that we know as business...

Portrait of Health in the United States: Major Statistical Trends & Guide to Resources. (Healthcare).
November 1, 2001... Daniel Melnick & Beatrice Rouse, eds. 2001. Bernan Press, a division of the Kraus Organization, Ltd. Softcover. 376p. ISBN: 0-89059-189--X $147. Researchers, particularly those that specialize in healthcare and medical issues, are always...

Neal-Schuman Library Technology Companion: A basic guide for library staff. (Information Technology).
November 1, 2001... John J. Burke. 2001. Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. 250p. Softcover. ISBN: 1-55570-398-4. $45. John J. Burke developed the material for this book as preparation for a library school course that covered the basic technologies used by and in...

Competitive knowledge management. (Knowledge Management).
November 1, 2001... Nicholas Bahra. 2001. Palgrave. Hardcover. 244p. ISBN: 0-333-94831-9. $39.95. Although this book seeks to be a text for students of knowledge management in the U.K. and Europe, it reads more like a smorgasbord of quotations, lists,...

Implementing ISO 9000:2000. (Standards).
November 1, 2001... Matt Seaver. 2001. Gower Publishing. Hardcover. 262p. ISBN: 0-566-08373-6. $99.95. Matt Seaver has been an expert member of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Committee 176 since 1992 and has been deeply involved in...

Price's posts.(Brief Article)(Column)
November 1, 2001... Gary has this month off, so I thought I'd use the opportunity to spotlight one of his ongoing contributions for those of you seeking knowledge on the Internet--his Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk. If you are not a subscriber to his...