Verety: Virtual Business in Action
Virtual Business — November 9, 2009 at 11:12 amOur first case study features an innovative way to tackle a major challenge facing leaders in the restaurant business. Although this challenge is not unique to the restaurateurs, it often creates a management nightmare in the fast food segment, especially for urban-based stores. The specific challenge is how can managers recruit and retain high-quality people in an industry that is not renowned for high compensation....
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About Us
Welcome to Sagology
Sagology is dedicated to connecting people with people to facilitate collaboration, learning, and knowledge sharing through...
Apr 24, 2009 13:32
Books
A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Management
A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Management:
Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance
Today when most executives...
Apr 24, 2009 12:39
Events
Speaking Engagements
John speaks regularly on the subject of knowledge management and how enterprises may reap the benefits of creating and exchanging...
Apr 24, 2009 12:12
Features
Virtual Business Book by John & JoAnn
Welcome to the development blog for A Leader’s Guide to Virtual Business: Strategies for Building Real Competitive Advantage....
Nov 8, 2009 18:27
Recent Articles
Verety: Virtual Business in Action
Our first case study features an innovative way to tackle a major challenge facing leaders in the restaurant business. Although this challenge is not unique to the restaurateurs, it often creates a management nightmare in the fast food segment, especially for urban-based stores. The specific challenge...
November 9th, 2009 | Virtual Business | Read More
Virtual Business Book by John & JoAnn
Welcome to the development blog for A Leader’s Guide to Virtual Business: Strategies for Building Real Competitive Advantage. JoAnn and I are working on a new book that features virtual business successes and a few failures too! We hope that you find this early material interesting, please feel free...
November 8th, 2009 | Features, Virtual Business | Read More
John’s Interview on KSA2 Television
I recently traveled to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to facilitate a series of management seminars in conjunction with Success Steps (www.success-steps.com). The focus of the events included leadership, the learning organization, and empowering knowledge workers. During my stay I was interviewed by KSA2 television....
August 12th, 2009 | Features, Main | Read More
Sagology and Success Steps form Strategic Partnership
Dr. John Girard, Sagology, and Mr. Ibrahem Ahmed Al Karaan, Executive Manager Success Steps, announce a strategic partnership between the two companies. Success Steps will coordinate all Sagology training and consulting in the Arab World. The first event under the new partnership was an Executive...
July 14th, 2009 | Features | Read More
Canadian Manager Magazine Features our New Book
The Summer 2009 edition of Canadian Manager Magazine features a full-page highlight of our new book, A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge Management: Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance. The review is available for download here. Here is the content:
A Leader’s Guide to Knowledge...
July 3rd, 2009 | Articles | Read More
The Future of Management . . . Are you Ready?
by John & JoAnn Girard, published in Canadian Manager Magazine
For the past two decades, public and private sector executives and managers have struggled to develop effective ways of sharing what their organizations know. Driven by concerns such as downsizing, the impending retirement of baby boomers,...
July 3rd, 2009 | Articles | Read More
Power of Story
by John & JoAnn Girard, published in Smart People Magazine.
For several years, we have had the great pleasure of speaking to groups of organizational leaders about knowledge management. Specifically, we speak about how smart people – people just like you – may harness the power of knowledge...
July 3rd, 2009 | Articles | Read More
Information Overload – The Tip of the Iceberg
by John Girard and Michael Allison, published in Inside Knowledge
Have you ever wondered what business-related issue creates the most anxiety amongst middle managers? The fact that information overload would be near the top of the list might surprise you. In December, 2007 Basex, a knowledge economy...
July 3rd, 2009 | Articles | Read More
Information Anxiety – Learning from History
By John Girard, published in the Indian PC Magazine.
The genesis of a recent project was the belief that the downsizing, rightsizing or whatever the politically correct euphemism for events during the late 20th century created an environment in which many middle managers were having difficulty dealing...
July 3rd, 2009 | Articles | Read More
Diapers, Pop-Tarts, and Dog Food
By John P. Girard, published in Prairie Business Magazine.
In the early 1990’s, the retail industry watched with great interest as something called data mining gained popularity. For the first time, extremely powerful computers – well at least powerful in 1990’s terms – were available to analyze...
July 3rd, 2009 | Articles | Read More
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Verety: Virtual Business in Action
November 9, 2009 11:11
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Virtual Business Book by John & JoAnn
November 8, 2009 18:11
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John’s Interview on KSA2 Television
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Sagology and Success Steps form Strategic Partnership
July 14, 2009 21:07
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Canadian Manager Magazine Features our New Book
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