Cool Sites

Miron Galper, senior vice president and chief development officer, AXA Financial (New York), visits the following sites:

financialplanning.com: This site helps to keep ahead of the game with regard to AXA's financial planning strategy. Here you can look at what other people do in the way of new tools, which generates new ideas.

projectworld.com: ProjectWorld provides a sizeable repository of information both business and IT can use to help deliver projects on time, within scope and on budget. In today's volatile business economy, it is especially important to keep abreast of the latest and hottest business management products and services.

gartner.com: We use the site across all of IT; from validating our strategic IT direction, to competitive analysis of vendor products and company-wide benchmarking of IT services. The site provides a high-level synopsis of companies and detailed analysis of their product suites, as well as information on methodologies, including project management practices.

expedia.com: This site gives good travel prices and very accurate information in general. I like its features and navigation. It's a very user-friendly site and it has never failed me.