It's different at the top. While your subordinates are in the product or service markets and measure success in sales and profits, the board has to think differently.

'Social Networks' are not a new phenomenon. The term was first used in the 1950s by a man called J.A.

It's a familiar story of too many cooks ... In 2000, European mobile phone companies bid for the then next-generation 3G licences.

In the 1920s, the Radio Corporation of America invented the broadcast network, a mass communications medium as broad in scope and reach as the contiguous United States.

Marie arrives home from work. She checks her email on her laptop. She has 12 offers for sexual potency pills, three from music download companies and 58 offers from online casinos. 'Spam' thinks Marie.

When I started my career in marketing with Ogilvy & Mather in the early 1980s, life was slower. Email hadn't yet been developed, so the arrival of the morning's post set the agenda for the day.