War, Chaos, and Business: Modern Business Strategy

[Doug Millison]

Here's a web site with a title and description that  reminded me of 
the way  Pynchon depicts the relationships between corporations, 
governments, and the military in GR, and elsewhere; your mileage may 
vary:

War, Chaos, and Business: Modern Business Strategy
http://www.belisarius.com/

This unique Website, hosted by Kettle Creek Corporation, offers
articles and presentations on the theories of Colonel John R. Boyd, a
US strategist. Boyd wrote extensively on the ideas of agility and
time-based competition. The former refers to the ability "to generate
ambiguity, isolation, and panic in the opposing side." Boyd advocated
combining agility with time-based competition, "to operate in rapid
decision cycle time," in order to win wars. On this Website, these
two theories are applied to business strategy. The articles in the
database may be browsed by author or title, navigating via the left
side of the screen. The site also contains a large collection of case
studies, business applications, and biographies of Boyd. This site
seems to be a little slow to load, but for those interested in
applying military theory to business strategy, it will be well-worth
the wait.

And here's one of interest perhaps to M&D readers:

The Slave Trade Archives Project
http://webworld.unesco.org/slave_quest/en/

Initiated by UNESCO and funded by the Norwegian Agency for
Development Cooperation, The Slave Trade Archives Project is "is
concerned with the access to and preservation of original archive
materials relating to the slave trade" in countries throughout Africa
and South America, including Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal,
Brazil, and Nigeria. The project is quite new, and thus, lacks a
wealth of content. The strategies and plans for the archives,
however, are clearly explained. Current documents for the project
include a feasibility study and links to a variety of participating
archives programs.

from:
The Scout Report for Business and Economics -- February 8, 2001
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