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This page contains brief summaries of our major resources. Click any of the links below to begin your research.
Business & Management Journals - EBSCOhost Business Source Premier and ProQuest ABI CompleteIMI course participants perform the majority of their research using these resources. Searching for relevant articles can be a daunting task. The Library staff is available to show you how to find what you need and give you advanced search tips. Email alerts can also be created by journal or topic. This means, for example, you can receive an email containing the table of contents and article summaries from the latest issue of Harvard Business Review.
Find a specific journal - A to Z JournalsThe IMI Library subscribes to journals across a number of databases. If you know the journal you want to review, this resource will tell you the database which contains the journal. Enter the title of the journal you want and A to Z will provide you with a link to the journal.
Business Data & Intelligence Reports - DataMonitor 360This is an extremely powerful resource which provides market information by country, industry, product and more. It also includes market projections (3 years from current) and allows for powerful comparisons by any number of fields including country, product, sector as well as per capita spending, margins and gross spending. The flexibility of this tool is dramaticand the data can be exported for spreadsheets or graphs.
Briefings for Managers - Managment KnowhowA practical toolkit full of brief guides, top-tips, exercises and checklists to help management assess their approach and deal with real-life problems as they arise in a number of areas including managing change, teamwork, emotional intelligence, and redundancy. This resource is meant to be directly applied in the office.
HR Tools & Best Practice Guide - Knowledge BankThis resource is similar to Management Knowhow but the intended audience is HR professionals, Learning & Development team members and trainers of all kinds.
Reference and Bibliography - RefWorksThis is a citation management resource designed to help organise and correctly format bibliographies and references. RefWorks is linked to the IMI Library journal databases. This allows users to export citations directly without interrupting their research. A bit of work to learn to use RefWorks at the beginning of a research project is far better than hours of work manually constructing a bibliography at the end!
Six word wisdom: Build the organisation of your dreams – Professor Gareth Jones
We’re launching a series where we call on thought leaders in business to summarise their message – in just six words. In honour of Bloomsday on Sunday we’ll kick off by quoting Molly Bloom and asking: “Oh Rocks – Tell us in plain words what you really mean!”. First up is Professor Gareth Jones expert in Read On
MOOCs won’t change learning – they will change teaching.
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and their B-movie monster-like threat to traditional education are all over the blog world again this week. I’m personally very excited by the tsunami of free online content. I just finished the excellent Model Thinking from the University of Michigan on Coursera on models for better decision-making. The platform felt flexible but was deceptively fast-paced so Read On
Are You Interested? – Guest Post: Nancy Kline
To coincide with her visit to IMI this week Nancy Kline – the originator and pioneer of The Thinking Environment® process shares her thoughts on attention and interest in a coaching exchange: Are You Interested? By Nancy Kline ‘You are so patient.’ I hear this after almost every Thinking Session demonstration. Other people tell me Read On
Who Needs a PA? Free Online Tools for Managers
As a manager you need the right information delivered in a succinct and timely manner. It’s easy to feel bombarded by the different data sources competing for our attention in the modern working environment. And while the Internet is undoubtedly a rich source of information, comparatively little has been done to connect the vast number Read On
Empathy, the ‘hardest’ management skill at work…
Just over a week ago I was sitting in the panel of the IMI Diploma in Leadership audit presentations, as I heard each manger and executive reporting back on their leadership audit journey I found very interesting how many of them recognised empathy as a critical area for development. In my job as facilitator, empathy is the Read On