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I got 74% over all for this course. I think my exam result dragged
it down a bit because I got caught up, gibbering on about e-commerce.
Well, I'd already started my T171 reading and I was all in a froth.
What can I say?
Well, it's a long time since I finished the course, so I guess I'd
better update some of the links now and see if there are any improvements
to be made; and good heavens! Wasn't I just amazed by how many dead
links there were on this page? About 30% of them were pointing to
defunct sites and some of them had been colonised by highly dubious
cybersquatters!
Incidentally, after I'd finished the course, I noticed a few people
struggling with the e-commerce component of T171 so I wrote a one-page
precis of the whole of B200 for the benefit of anyone who wanted
a quick intro to the world of Biz Ed, and tacked it onto the end
of a capsule critique of the textbook, 'Blown to Bits'. You might
be interested in having a look, and I'd certainly appreciate any
feedback on the usefulness or otherwise from the point-of-view of
another B200 student! It's here, if you're
interested.
General B200 Stuff:
Business Studies
BA homepage : : : Worldwide
Business Information Resource does exactly what it says on the
tin : : : The CBI web
site is interesting too - and surprisingly pretty! : : : Biz/Ed
is really excellent : : : FT
: : : HowBizWorks
: : : Business.com : : :
Motley Fool : : : BBC: Jargon
Buster, Business
News, World
Business , Researching
Companies Online (Tutorial) : : : B200
Course Description : : : Fawaz Al-Omran's site (Useful B200 material and more from a member of the Arab OU)
Business Environments:
Amartya Sen on
Asian Values : : : Technology Issues for the future at the
Fool : : : Capitalism
Magazine(!) : : : From
'e-commerce-now' : : : Virtual
Economy
Markets:
Paper on Globalisation
in Africa : : : Other articles on world markets at IMF
Site : : : Arnold Kling's economics/market
tutorial
Business Processes:
There are precious few online resources for business processes
but you could try the Why
and How of Business Processes
Organisations:
TQM
resources for download here : : : Big collection of network
org/ virtual org essays at Brint
: : : Max
Weber's Homepage (seriously!) : : : HRM
Guide. : : : BOLA
has good stuff on organisational models of all kinds : : : and of
course, the best web site for understanding how organisations really
work is Dilbert
Study Skills:
There are plenty of study skills sites out there...e.g., this
one for economists or
Mind Tools But in my opinion the study skills portion of this
course is ludicrously overemphasised.
Alternative methods of getting a handle on business include my personal
favourite - mucking about with games! A lot of business-related
games and role-plays seem to be floating about the web but most
of them cost money. As for free versions, the most famous is Lemonade
Stand . Version 1 / Version
2 : : : But definitely the best freeware business game is the
freebie version of Gazillionaire,
which teaches you the principles of running a business by means
of a sci-fi role play. How cool is that? Well, it'll be more interesting
to put this in your TMA6 write up than the usual 'yes, yes, I've
been improving my note-taking skills...ZZZzzzzzz.....'
B200 TMA7
When we studied B200, the final course assessment was about Vodafone's
takeover of Mannesmann. It brought in a lot of issues relating to
the pros and cons of Rhineland capitalism, as compared to other
models. I daresay it is different this year. Most of the news stories
from the time have now expired so I can't link to them any more.
In fact, of the eight links to Vodafone/Mannesman/Rhineland articles,
seven have expired, but here's one from the Guardian which still
seems to be extant: Rheumatism
on the Rhine. Here are some more articles I found on Google:
Takeover ...er... the others have become dead links so you'll just have to google 'em yourself.
B200 Audible Goodies
My favourite online service. They produce
electronic audio books for download. There are quite a lot that
are helpful for B200 students. I've had to use affiliate links because
it was the only way of linking to individual titles (because of
the way the java server pages work). I don't particularly like doing
that but that's the way the ball bounces. Clicking
on this link will take you to a list of useful titles by course.
Each one uses a session cookie for the transition. Personally, I
think their use of cookies is responsible and respectful of privacy,
but I know there's a certain amount of paranoia about, so if you
disagree with their privacy
policy, best leave it alone.
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