The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 19, 2007

MANAGEMENT
PERSPECTIVE
The importance of succession planning
The CEO is in good health, and is not due to retire for the next five years, with a possible three-year extension. The company is performing well financially and appears in secure hands. The board is not thinking of a successor to the CEO, though ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES
In search of a first-rate economics talent pool
In a recent business newspaper interview, the then Finance Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, said: "The Finance Ministry must be manned by the best possible talent in the country, but tell me where am I to invent ... More

NEW PROJECTS
Holding West Bengal to ransom
The problem is the Congress and the Trinamul do not seem to realise that any move to weaken the current efforts at regenerating West Bengal's economy will not in any way strengthen their support base among the people of the State. On the contrary, it will weaken the State's economy and create conditions which will be conducive to easy dissemination of the message of those who want to hit at the Republic's Constitution. More

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING
Enterprise Management — Building intelligence into information systems
Knowledge Management, which is the orderly encapsulation and deployment of critical knowledge, is vital in fostering a firm's competitiveness. Enterprise Management Systems provide a management and technology framework for superior Knowledge Manageme nt. More

INTERVIEW
`Economic policies are a cause for worry'
In the first two years, the UPA Government passed some good legislation. Of late, what is worrisome are the UPA's economic policies, especially seen from a poor man's point of view. MR A. B. BARDHAN, GENERAL SECRETARY, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA More

BOOKS
Hoarding knowledge diminishes power
The new order is changing the way "we think the world itself is organised and who we think has the authority to tell us so." As a result, we are questioning the need for a culture in which "truth means accuracy, effectiveness requires adherence to cl ear lines of command and control, and knowledge is power." Be ready for the jolt that David Weinberger provides in Everything is Miscellaneous. More

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