Of course web sites are often difficult to classify, so try a couple of topics if you can't quite find what you want. If you have ANY suggestions please send them to
webmaster@can-da.com. This includes re-organization, new sites and comments on our choices.
Please note that we may NOT agree with what is being said on any of these pages. But we feel that they should be listened to..
Our Business Pages - Of course, we'd never forget our own web pages. You can read organizational development models, download software and of course find out more about us.
Organizational Development- These sites contain a variety of topics to help an organization develop. For example, training sites, facilitation sites, management discussion groups, management consulting and behavioural sciences sites are all here. I considered calling this Management Topics but they're ALL management topics.
Quality- Total Quality Management and ISO 9000 are some of the most important trends today. Even after you get past the hype. Here are a number of related sites.
Project Management - Most IS/IT departments are managed with a project focus. Doesn't it make sense to develop our knowledge of Project Management? Yes, the sites are pretty scarce but there are a few.
Systems Topics- Naturally, we can't forget our roots! Here is a list of sites which develop various themes which are important to the IS/IT professional, manager and leader.
Software & Hardware- Don't discount these sites! Yes, they are primarily Software or Hardware companies but many of them discuss topics of general interest to management.
We're not quite sure - Of couse, some sites defy pigeon-holing. So rather that fight we decided to put them here.
Our Business Pages
Our Home Page - the place to start if you're
normal.
Buzan Centre of Toronto Home Page. Mind Maps are one of the most flexible of the tools at a facilitator's disposal. Here's another sight to help learn about them.
Organizational Development Models. How could we forget our own discussions on Organizational
Behaviour? You'll find a number of models and discussion papers here. We try to add one new one every month.
Learning-Org Dialog on Learning Organizations. Some people think an organization that supports training is a Learning Organization. But that's an outgrowth not the source of the true Learning Organization. In a true Learning Organization it is the organization which learns - from its environment, its mistakes and its people. In my personal opinion, if an organization can learn Systemic thinking it will go far in resolving many of the proplems which develop in the normal organization. This is a good place to start your own learning.
Canadian Standards Association. Yes, this is an ex-employer. But we still feel its one of the most important forces in Quality and Product Certification today. Many of the industry innovations originated here. CSA is Canada's representative (on behalf of the
SCC) to ISO for Quality and is a major force in the development of the ISO 9000 series. The web site -
ehhh.
QMI (ISO 9000 Registrar) Home Page. This is CSA's quality audit and registration division. Its operations are world wide and it boasts many important clients. Most of all it shares a strong sense of innovation with its parent.
Welcome to ISO Online. The International Organization for Standards (ISO) is much more than just the publishers of the ISO 9000 series. Here's their site. (As an aside check the politics of the day in who's listed and who's not - same goes for the SCC site.).
Quality Resources Online. Certainly one of the most complete of the Quality sites. Read ASQC newsletters, jump to other sites. Overall a good, complete site.
SEI Home Page. The Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University publishes the Capability Maturity Model which is one of the major standards in the Software Quality arena (along with ISO 9000-3,
TickIT, and SPICE). Also lots of other Systems related issues. The SEI is largely supported by the US Military and shows a definite military slant.
Project Management Forum. Unfortunately, for a topic this important, the number of sites is quite
sparce, Not the best of sites but the list isn't too big.
Project
Management Institute.
The North American
society for
project managers.
Active around the
world.
Administrators
etc. of the PMP
certificate.
PMI
- Lakeshore.
The chapter of PMI
that we are a
member of.
Ed Yourdon's Home Page. Yes, he's still alive and still an important force in IS/IT theory. This is his own site. And a good one it is too!
The Ken Orr Institute. Another of the major developers of Systems Engineering theory. And yes, he's also still alive.
Object International Homepage. Object International = Peter Coad as in
Coad/Yourdon OOT methodology. An important force in Object Oriented Design.
Rapid Prototyping and Evolution. A good discussion on the problems and potentials of
RPE/RAD (Rapid Prototyping Evolution/Rapid Application Design). An important site.
Introduction to the Booch Method. Another of the OOT methodologies. This gives a good introduction to it. But buy a book anyway.
Personnally, I prefer Coad/Yourdon, but to each his own.
Richard T. Dué. Another proponent of Object Technologies. Nice site lots of links and references to information.
OMICRONet Welcome Page Info Technology management information. A little too split up for my taste but fast and informative. Unfortunately it's mostly a members only site.
The IBM world wide web home page. A GREAT site. You could get lost in here for hours. Contains info of interest to everyone from the teenage game player to the CEO.
iManage.
A company involved
in collaboration
and knowledge
management
systems. These
systems are
becoming more
important to
project management
and are a great
aid to distributed
teams.
Welcome to shareware.com. A search engine for free software
(ie shareware). Covers many of the important archives and several smaller ones. Part of the C/Net service.
A Business Researcher's Interests. If you need a link - any link - its here! Just don't expect it to load quickly. Go have a smoke, a coffee - a shower even! Someone should explain to him how to split up web pages. And you thought we were slow to load! Actually, it has improved
immensely since the first version. But it still tries to put too much text on a single page.
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