Furthermore, it is one the best tools for gaining a clear business advantage in the global economy .
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What these women have discovered is that being up before the sun is a major personal and business advantage.
But if you can say with certainty that environmentally your product is better, there can be a business advantage there.
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The law makes it illegal for companies with sizable American operations to offer money or gifts to foreign-government officials to gain a business advantage.
Lawmakers in Nevada, for example, were ultimately convinced by casino lobbyists that firms that stayed after Congress's act got an unfair business advantage, prompting the bad actors provision.
The focus of the inquiry couldn't immediately be determined, but FCPA inquiries involve bribes paid to foreign-government officials or employees of state-owned companies to gain a business advantage.
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This powerful machine also includes dedicated software tools specifically for small business including Lenovo Solutions for Small Business powered by Intel Small Business Advantage and Lenovo Cloud Storage by SugarSync.
It takes an employee, deciding that the loss of high-value customers is important, to run a query of all their data and find him, and then turn that into a business advantage.
Wal-Mart now asks each landlord to answer a five-page questionnaire stating that it won't give anything of value or make a bribe to any government official or political party to gain a business advantage.
When a company in a particular industry shows a business advantage based on the flexibility and speed of cloud infrastructure and uses that advantage to pummel the competition the rest of the industry will be forced to follow.
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He drew a distinction between "undue influence" - such as donors getting peerages or some sort of business advantage - and "unobjectionable" influence, like donors being able to "put their views on what's best for the country and how it should be run".
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Timothy Cahill, My Medical Control's founder, is the first to admit his two-year-old business takes advantage of what might be charitably called a screwy medical economy.
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Readers may have heard me complain about how the individual AMT keeps these business owners from taking advantage of business tax benefits, such as the typical research and development tax credit.
Still, the health insurance industry sees the cuts as harmful to the growth of the Medicare Advantage business.
And since then, it has been plowing money into the business, taking advantage of low labor and material costs.
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The bottom line is that social media is here to stay and small business should take advantage of the opportunity.
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There is always a lag before new technology lifts productivity growth, because it takes time for firms to reorganise their business to take advantage of new ways of doing things.
The value in Big Data is not the ability to capture and store vast and rapidly increasing quantities of data, its value lies in providing companies and organizations real time information that they can act upon and provides insights to their business for competitive advantage.
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Employees involved in Hitachi Consumer Electronics flat-panel TV business, including Hitachi CM, we plan to take advantage of new business and in and out of the Hitachi Group Hitachi Consumer Electronics.
The last to steps are making sure that your business is taking full advantage of this new opportunity.
While updating your applications can be a daunting task, it is a necessity to drive competitive advantage and business innovation.
By offering Office 365, Verizon Wireless' small business customers can take advantage of productivity in the cloud while on the go.
By leveraging the Lean module in Microsoft Dynamics AX, we were able to change our business processes to take advantage of these market changes.
There is certainly an appetite in the US to talk about China's approach, which is seen as giving Chinese business an unfair competitive advantage.
Every business needs to take advantage of the new tools and technologies which can assist you in making this shift in strategy and measuring effectiveness.
"Hong Kong's greatest advantage for business is its high standard for commercial law and predictable and just equality of treatment under the law, " says Anthony M.
Our customers benefit from cloud computing by taking advantage of business solutions for managing their people, instead of dealing with the cost and expense of IT.
Even if Google never ends up in the dock, Microsoft and its allies may still nudge it to change the way it does business, to their advantage.
So, how does a small business maintain a competitive advantage in the face of pressure from high tech innovation and the primordial human desire for high touch connection?
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