A&M Case Study: Turnaround Artist on Benefits of Complexity (Date:2003-03-17)

Excellent description of solving business problems and improving use of information

Stats Canada (Date:2003-01-01)

Just about everything you can imagine here. You may have to pay for some

Industry Canada (Date:2003-01-01)

According to the Vancouver Sun, this is "the motherlode" of information for small business

US Govt: census (Date:2003-01-01)

US Government

Search Labour Laws (Date:0000-00-00)

Search all current legislation for as little as $10 a day

Share the Power (Date:2004-05-06)

From Warren Bennis. This one is about the pros (and cons) of sharing power at the top of an organization. One caution: it starts with some routine ideas but improves as it proceeds.

BC Chamber of Commerce (Date:2003-04-01)

Excellent source, especially (http://www.bcchamber.org/links.html ) links to other BC Business websites

Small Business Associations in BC (Date:0000-00-00)

Canadian Business Magazine (Date:0000-00-00)

BC Business Magazine (Date:2003-01-01)

Close to home

Globe and Mail (Date:2003-01-01)

Excellent source of Canadian content

Canadian Business (Date:2003-01-01)

..closer to home

NY Times (Date:2003-01-01)

Economist (Date:2003-01-01)

A prime source of world news and information

CNN (Date:2003-01-01)

The well known news site

BBC (UK) (Date:2003-01-01)

Small Business Guides (Date:2003-04-01)

Good source of formal methods for small business

International Small Business Consortium (Date:0000-00-00)

Rough and raw, but it's won a Microsoft award. Run by volunteers from all corners of the earth.

Small Business Resources (Date:0000-00-00)

A lot aimed at home businesses but some interesting resources for larger businesses too.

EDC (Export Development) (Date:2003-04-01)

Some aids of interest to exporters

Women's business center (Date:2003-01-01)

Academy of Managent (Date:2003-01-01)

General site for management topics

Free reading (Date:2003-01-01)

Comprehensive listing of many management topics

Business Cases (Date:2003-06-17)

Explanation of ..

Building a Business Case (Date:2003-04-01)

Good outline of a business case via one of the links on this page.

Biz-Ed (Date:2003-01-01)

Good source of academic material and internet resources generally

Management Theory (Date:2003-01-01)

Excellent summaries of both topics and individual theorists

CFO Magazine (Date:2003-04-01)

Quite a rich choice of articles through access to past issues

Understanding the Income Statement (Date:2005-05-26)

Workopolis (Date:2003-01-01)

15-33% for agencies may work, but so might C$695 for 21 days of advertising at..

NetJobs (Date:2003-01-01)

Ditto

Canada Hiring Guides (Date:2003-01-01)

Useful source of regulations, guides, some by province

US Salaries website (Date:2005-05-26)

Interesting benchmarks for US salaries by job category and state/location. Not clear on the 'n' for each result

American Management Association (Date:2005-05-26)

Useful general source of business info. Heavy US slant.

Canadian Management Network/Small business support (Date:0000-00-00)

A simple time management and decision-making tool (Date:2005-05-26)

Sample article in smallbiz smarts

Microsoft bCentral Business Assistance (Date:2003-05-12)

Technology based business aids

Siebel (Date:2003-01-01)

IT Republic downloads (Date:2003-01-01)

Plenty of excellent material…sign-in requires only e-mail and password

Dell (Date:2003-01-01)

A poor (downgraded from excellent to good, and now downgraded to poor) source of small business computers. Service in recent year seems to have deteriorated badly.

Gateway (Date:2003-01-01)

Another on-line store

IBM (Date:2003-01-01)

Well, before IBM sold its PC business to China...

Sherpa Store (Date:2003-01-01)

Brian Livingstone--a hitherto respected IT columnist--seems to have descended to e-mail marketing at his site. But might be of some interest

Office Update (Date:2003-01-01)

Automated process for updating Microsoft Office installations

Knowledgebase (Date:2003-01-01)

It's not easy to use, but there's a goldmine of solutions for those annoying glitches

Ziff-Davis Publications (Date:2003-01-01)

eWeek, CIO Insight, Baseline, ExtremeTech

Techrepublic (Date:2003-01-01)

Gartner (Date:2003-01-01)

Highly respected authority on IT direction and products

IT World (Date:2003-01-01)

A myriad of resources here

Extreme Tech (Date:2003-01-01)

Hardware, software, although often at the extreme technical end

TechRepublic (Date:2003-01-01)

Strong technical focus but plenty of white papers and downloads

PC Magazine (Date:2003-01-01)

Product reviews, downloads, articles, etc

PC World (Date:2003-01-01)

Product reviews, downloads, articles, etc

DarwinMag (Date:2003-01-01)

Interesting commentary on IT developments

Implementing IT Strategy (Date:2002-12-18)

..and Strategy generally

(IT) Strategic Planning Do's and Don'ts (Date:2002-12-18)

Excellent advice on Strategic Planning generally

ZoneAlarm Firewall (Date:2003-01-01)

Very important product for anyone with a permanent connection to the internet(*Update: poor reports on this product now that it has been bought by Checkpoint)

AVG Anti-Virus Software (Date:2003-01-01)

Highly recommended free alternative to standard products

AVG Anti-Virus review (Date:2003-01-01)

…read the review and user reports here