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Other Frequently Asked Questions

How can you professionally publicize your new books, conference events, educational and development programs, professional positions, professional expertise, consultancies, press releases, etc.?

Please use the related global community forums and online events calendar for free posting of your messages.

How can you professionally solicit bids and offers for information and intellectual property or request such bids from our global community network?

Please use the related global community forum titled Information Needed / Information for Sale for free posting of your messages.

How can this site provide you the best return on your research time bar none?

Use the Knowledge Portals link on top menu and see for yourself how you can do the deepest and broadest research of all major search engines, directories, and business technology resources. A click on BRINT search portals by using the correct keyword or combination of keywords would save you more than 100 clicks guaranteed! Our search interfaces are meant for heavy duty research, i.e., you needs lots of information from a lot of relevant resources in least time. You can yourself do the comparison between searching more than 250+ sources in one click or going to each separately and searching them one by one. The search portals design is intended to get you to the most relevant information in the least number of clicks. By investing a few minutes in getting familiar with our knowledge portals interfaces you can literally save hundreds of clicks and dozens of hours that you may 'normally' spend in research.

How did we go about designing our Knowledge Portals interfaces?

We find the best and deepest sources on the Net and we develop interfaces that simultaneously search hundreds of very targeted resources in real time and present in a 'portal' interface. The same interface, for instance, provides the greatest depth that you can ever find in any single interface with access to hundreds of targeted articles, news sources, glossaries, blogs, search engines, directories, documents, jobs, etc. Some of the 'new' search engines are based on concepts and implementations that we tried and have discarded years ago in advancing our business model. We consistently maintain our focus on efficiently servicing our targeted global communities of knowledge workers by providing the most needed information in the least possible time.

How can you conduct most in-depth research for tracking, researching stocks and options listed in various financial markets as used by power traders and investors?

Our financial browser integrated in the Knowledge Portals provides the greatest depth and breadth of securities and stocks analyses compared with any search tool out there... and free. More than a hundred sources are pre-selected, pre-formatted, pre-arranged, and presented to you in just one click. The design is based upon solid experiential understanding of the process of finding, accessing, extracting, and using this information in realistic everyday heavy duty research and analysis.

How can you research major search engines and directories from BRINT Knowledge Portals?

BRINT Knowledge Portals provide you one-click access to ALL popular search engines and directories without requiring time for getting to the different sites, typing the keywords again, and clicking again... and again.... and again.

What are the main content and community areas on the BRINT web sites that are of possible interest to you?

Most of our own proprietary and copyrighted contents are made accessible (free) from the respective topical areas and channels. Also, you will find most of our high-profile contents in top rankings of most search engines as well as in our metasearch results. Also, you have free access to the vastly popular community areas that allow you to network with our global community as well as post and access events (conferences, expos, seminars) posted by them. There is also a jobs section that includes a co-branded area and includes postings from many of the most respected recruiting agencies as well as world's largest corporations and consulting firms.

How do the new Knowledge Portals interfaces integrate with the older interfaces based on hard-coded lists of hyperlinks?

As the site design 'evolved' over the last ten years, we shifted our focus from providing access to separate (external) links - many of which were often broken and untraceable - to our custom portal on demand model. Our design is such that it puts least performance load on your computer or browser while providing the greatest depth and breadth of most relevant information. To ensure that users can see the 'titles' of old links we have not deleted many of those links. If any links are broken, use the keywords and do the query on our portals. This would fetch you many more updated and fresh results from most targeted resources.

What type of feedback do we generally receive from our global community network members and users?

99% of our users love using our interfaces, contents, and services. Many of them have been patrons of our services for more than a decade and have grown together with BRINT. It is great to hear from someone visiting us from (say) Silicon Valley to explore deals, partnerships, and services and mention that they got to know about BRINT many years ago when they were completing their MBA or grad school. Or to know from someone with business technology experience of 25 years on other side of the world that they got some great insights from our Reengineering related contents and insights posted in related sections. Or to hear from a consultant of one of the Big-4 firms how our easily accessible services saved his skin consulting down in the southern hemisphere when he could not access his firm's widely publicized (say) Lotus Notes database. Comments from remaining 1% keep us on our toes in trying to figure out how to make everyone happy.

How can you access "premium" content generated by us?

Free! Without any need for any type of registration or any payment! With no advertisements! With no strings attached whatsoever! Many companies would make you jump through hoops of registration screens and pay an arm and a leg to download promotional 'white papers' and 'analyst reports'. We provide our premium content without any need for registration or any payment and without any advertisements included in it. Our premium content includes many of our original research reports, articles published in world's most respected outlets, online seminars presented at the world's most reputed business schools, and other educational materials. While we expect adherence to 'fair use' principles explained in the Copyrights section, we make it most inexpensive, convenient, and comfortable for you to advance your knowledge and understanding with the aid of works produced by us. Recognizing that many such materials are often used in educational programs, our Copyrights section explains some of the most user-friendly policies we have on the use of such premium content. We subsidize the production, hosting, and worldwide dissemination of knowledge embedded in such works in accordance with our mission statement.

What is our mission?

Our mission is the creation and dissemination of knowledge on contemporary business, management, strategy, and information technology issues to facilitate organizational, societal and individual performance, success and fulfillment. Our thought leadership, advising, facilitating, and knowledge management activities aim to develop the future vision of organizations, enterprises and knowledge work based on the synergy of creativity & innovation of humans, and capabilities of new information technologies. We serve the intellectual needs of senior corporate executives, management consultants, business and technology professionals, top government officials, editors and journalists, and business and technology academia around the world. Our award-winning work on the development of management strategy and technology knowledge has been often cited as a benchmark for contemporary business thinking and knowledge management in the worldwide media.

What is our design philosophy?

The Design Philosophy of this site is to facilitate a Global Knowledge Community of global BizTech professionals interacting amongst themselves and an evolving Knowledge Map. The focus is less on 'cut-and-dried' issues covered in most academic disciplines and more on developing post-modernistic thinking of contemporary business, management and technology issues. It is anticipated that the interdisciplinary focus on 'real world' issues may facilitate sense-making of some of the most critical issues being faced by today's organizations and their managers. Each of these issues has its own share of complexity, and the same holds for the overlaps and the relationships between them. The evolving understanding of these issues, as reified within the medium of these web pages, is expected to provide some focus and structure to such convoluted concepts, while avoiding oversimplification or one specific interpretation. Much of the practitioner focus as well as the focus of business schools on 'Business Technology Management' and 'Knowledge Management' evident today follow the cross-disciplinary issues we defined and discussed in the last decade. We anticipate continuing this tradition of discovering latest areas of high-value added knowledge and practice and contribute to the evolution of management practices and business disciplines.

Where do we stand in terms of balancing theory and practice?

The focal theme of the Network is to develop an understanding of contemporary business, management and information technology issues by bridging the gap between theory and practice. We are willing to reflect upon the cutting-edge thinking from both academia and practice; however the issues need to be of contemporary interest and relevance to business managers, professionals, and executives.

What does the acronym BRINT stand for?

It signifies our long-term and sustained focus on advancing the Knowledge Economy practices related to Business Research in Information and Technology that are relevant to performance, success and fulfillment of individuals, organizations and nations. BRINT Institute and its online network have been instrumental in defining the worldwide vision and business technology practices related to the Knowledge Economy since early 1994. Some perspective of the reach and range of our worldwide contributions is available from the information and links provided on the web page About BRINT. The original web pages of BRINT, originally started as A Business Researcher's Interests, were uploaded on the Web with the beta version of the very first Web browser Mosaic. The first generation of 14.4K bps modems was used to create our global community network spanning the world before Internet and Web became popular with the mainstream. Nominated as a last minute entry for the inaugural Industry.Net Online Achievement Awards in 1996, A Business Researcher's Interests site was able to receive enough votes to rank as 'Top Nominee' in the Best Research Site category and was ranked above Alta Vista search engine, the pre-eminent search engine of that time.