[there are four news stories in this post.]
vnunet.com :: Siebel works on .Net integration
By Robert Jaques
...Mark Armenante, group vice president of alliances at Siebel Systems, said: "Working together over the past year, Siebel and Microsoft have developed .Net-based solutions throughout our client, server and integration product stacks."
He added that the 7.7 version of Siebel's enterprise platform, using .Net, will include enhanced integration with Microsoft Office 2003 and Exchange for mobile knowledge workers.
Siebel 7.7 will allow users to link Office Outlook 2003 records to data in the Siebel database, and the Siebel Exchange Connector will allow users to synchronise calendar information, contacts and to-do lists between Siebel 7.7 and Exchange...
AME Info Business News :: Eighth World Congress for TQM closes on successful note
by Anne-Birte Stensgaard
...Speaking on Creating Employee Value in a Global Economy through Participation, Motivation and Development, Dr. Vora [Chairman and President, Business Excellence, Inc.] focused on the key factors required to create an environment for employee well-being and satisfaction, leading to improved participation and morale to achieve enterprise-wide success in a global economy. Dr. Vora also presented a general roadmap to effectively manage 'knowledge workers' in the 21st century...
The Times of India :: Balancing work and family
...Therapist of the new economy, Stephen Covey, defines traits of leadership and what works for today's CEOs. In the second part of his interview with N Vidyasagar and Vinay Kamat , Covey stresses the importance of the family and the workplace.
On what is missing in today's CEOs : Many CEOs are still stuck in the industrial-age business model, where the primary assets were "things". They don't recognise the reality of the whole person, the knowledge worker who possesses a body, mind, heart and spirit. Instead, several of them still think people must be controlled for results. And they often land up treating people as things...
The Globe and Mail :: Relax, the kids are doing fine
By Barbara Moses
...'I don't know what's wrong with my son. First he was going to do a BA in history, then he decided to switch to psychology. Now he's saying he wants to do a Masters in criminology, but he doesn't know what he would do with it."
I hear this kind of comment frequently from parents exasperated by their kids' lack of clear career direction. This is followed inevitably by the lament: "When I was his age, I was much more focused . . ."
If, as they say, 50 is the new 40, then 30 is the new 20. There are many reasons that young people today, from teenagers to those in their early 30s, are confused about what they want to do. The complexity of preparing for contemporary knowledge work means a longer and more expensive period of education than in the past, and the career outcomes are less predictable. During what is in effect a much prolonged adolescence, the traditional parenting role of providing financial and moral support becomes similarly extended...