Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Social As Well As Business Metrics

2004-11-23 Thread Peter Burgess
Dear Colleagues, I am always intrigued by discussion about different metrics, and frequently come away with the impression that there is a high level of dissatisfaction about metrics as currently practiced. I was involved in the early days of management information systems, before it was normal f

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] What New Technologies and Business Models are on the Horizon?

2004-11-23 Thread Paul Richardson
Dear GKD Members, I run a small company (ExpLAN Computers Ltd) which is the lead partner in a group of 14 companies and individual engineers who have spent the last 4 years designing an ultra-low energy computer suitable for running indefinately off renewable power sources - particularly solar. Y

[GKD-DOTCOM] Hybrid Profit and Non-Profit Business Models

2004-11-23 Thread Keith Birkhold
Dear Colleagues, A terrific variety of approaches. I wanted to share how we have approached the development of a hybrid e-school in Indiana. Our founding board had a choice of forming a private school, where students pay the tuition, or a public school sponsored by a state university. The public p

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Win-Win Business Models

2004-11-23 Thread Adriana Labardini
Dear GKD List Members, Thanks to Pamela, Janice, Peter, Lee, Tom, Kris, Al, Ken, Atanu, and Arrigo for your valuable information, caveats, guidance and volunteering. We now have more pieces of the poverty puzzle together than we did 2 weeks ago. But getting to the designing and planning stage is t

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] Win-Win Business Models

2004-11-23 Thread Vickram Crishna
On 11/19/04, Lee Thorn wrote: > The hard work of the people in Phon Kham and elsewhere in Lao PDR cannot > be over-emphasized. They defined the problems to be addressed, they > searched for solutions that fit their situation, they helped us define > and test their solution and worked hard to achie