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DP Business Management IA

Success criteria for supporting documents:

Balance - range of ideas, views, publishers
Contemporary - published within 3 years
Concise - does not exceed 5 A4 pages
Highlight - you must highlight the relevant information
Label - identify each supporting document in your in-text citation

Primary sources in business:

Competitor analysis
Focus groups
Interviews
Observation checklists
Position mapping
Questionnaires

Secondary sources in business:

Academic journal articles
Business plans
Company annual reports
Company websites
Documentaries
Market research survey
Newspaper articles
Mission statements

Open Data Sources

World Bank Open Data
World Bank Open Data is massive with 3000 datasets and 14000 indicators encompassing microdata, time series statistics, and geospatial data.
World Health Organization - Open Data Repository
WHO’s Open Data repository is how WHO keeps track of health-specific statistics of its 194 Member States. The repository keeps the data systematically organized.
Our World in Data
Our World in Data is about Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Data Commons
Data Commons brings together the world's public data, making it simple to explore.
Registry of Open Data on AWS (RODA)
In RODA you can discover and share the data which is publicly available. Use keywords and tags for common types of data such as genomic, satellite imagery and transportation in order to search whatever data that you are looking for.
European Union open data portal
Access whatever open data EU institutions, agencies and other organizations publish on a single platform. The EU Open Data Portal is home to vital open data pertaining to EU policy domains. These policy domains include economy, employment, science, environment, and education.
FiveThirtyEight
A great site for data-driven journalism and story-telling. Provides its various sources of data for a variety of sectors such as politics, sports, science, economics etc. You can download the data as well.
United States Census
U.S. Census Bureau is the biggest statistical agency of the federal government. It stores and provides reliable facts and data regarding people, places, and economy of America.
Data.gov
Treasure-house of US government’s open data. Includes 180,000 datasets.
The Global Economy
Provides up-to-date numbers for GDP, inflation, credit, interest rates, employment, and many other indicators. The data series are updated continuously based on the release dates of individual countries.
Statista
Statista is a company specializing in market and consumer data
ESPN
Sports news coverage, scores, highlights and commentary for NFL, MLB, NBA, College Football, NCAA Basketball and more
"Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development" (OECD) Data
Forum where governments of 37 democracies with market-based economies collaborate to develop policy standards to promote sustainable economic growth

Business News Sources

Daily News Sources

Ebsco Explora Secondary

Ebsco Explora Secondary
General reference database for High School Students.

JSTOR

JSTOR
Digital library of academic journals, primary sources, and books

New York Times Online

New York Times Online
The New York Times seeks the truth and helps people understand the world. With 1700 journalists reporting from more than 150 countries.
Create your own account at:
nytimes.com/passes
Use your SFS email

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Google Dataset Search

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.