Promote the spirit of teamwork to enhance company's overall competitiveness, and encourage closer communication between front-end and back-end management teams for better mutual understanding.
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Meanwhile, OpenText has integrated social capabilities that came from the Vignette acquisition to re-energize its social offering and make it part of an end-to-end content management solution.
As COO, Cook was previously responsible for all of the company's worldwide sales and operations, including end-to-end management of Apple's supply chain, sales activities, and service and support in all markets and countries.
All the firms offer services from high-end businesses like IT consulting to low-end management of servers and business process outsourcing.
Some new cloud-based solutions act as payment processors, as well as offering back-end customer relations management systems and the ability to accept mobile payments in the growing Internet economy.
Rather than automate the year-end performance management process (which is widely hated and questionable in value), Work.com is designed to be used by employees, teams, and managers on a regular basis for goal setting, communication of goals, recognition, rewards, and yes, ultimately, performance appraisals.
Our innovation focus, however, is not technology development, rather a marriage of proven technologies and end-user focused product management as a driver for product development innovation for underserved individuals and communities.
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Yesterday VMWare announced a big move into end-user centric access and management of cloud-based applications.
That said, there is increasing evidence that an over-reliance on planning, management and measurement in the front-end of innovation as evidenced by the movement of back-end processes such as lean and six sigma to the front end of innovation, are producing poor returns on innovation effort.
The company said that Omnifone, a cloud music service provider, is providing the back-end for the service, including content management, music hosting and reporting functions.
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They make sure that all resources--people, money, management attention, supplier enhancements--serve that end.
Schwartz joined Goldman in 1985 in institutional sales and took over as co-head of investment management at the end of 2003.
With good cash management practices, your month-end book work will seem less daunting.
That is why the management focus on pricey high-end devices is concerning.
End-users will have to do more application configuration and management tasks than they do now.
The big question at the cheaper end of the market is how to sort out middle-management.
Like coupons, the real money of the model is probably in infrastructure and database management, not owning a dedicated front-end site.
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Ultra bombed on spotting management problems at Tyco International, at year-end its second-largest holding (4.3% of assets).
Morgan Asset Management, for example, lost a high-end apartment building in the Chinese city of Dalian to foreclosure last summer after sluggish sales put the firm in violation of loan covenants.
Fitch Ratings estimates the total amount of outstanding wealth-management products was around 13 trillion yuan at the end of last year equal to about 14.5% of total banking-system deposits compared with 8.5 trillion yuan at the end of 2011.
We also note that the iPad mini shows management is aware of the need for lower-end products that ultimately offer a foothold in markets where Apple can capture upgrade growth (i.e. the 40% of the tablet market that is owned by mostly Amazon, Samsung, Google and ASUS).
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Senior firm management will experience the next biggest drop in year-end pay with bonuses for 2011 down somewhere between 20% and 30%.
Six months of intensive work, endless cold calls to find clients, and a high all-or-nothing benchmark of client money to get under management by the end of the program.
They hope to drive the program into a political and technological dead-end by denying it the synergy and efficiency that can come from an integrated management structure and by diverting funds from space- to ground-based defensive systems.
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Costs are low: In the company's last financial year, storage and management fees came to 0.6% of year-end assets.
Yet as the upshot of today's end-of-year European summit in Brussels makes clear, rifts over the management of the eurozone crisis are still manifest.
At the end of 2008, Mr. Marks, chairman of Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management, and his wife Nancy completed a seven-year renovation of the property with Michael Smith, the designer who redid the White House Oval Office a few years ago, according to someone familiar with the designer.
Michael Corbett, who manages money for Perritt Capital Management in Chicago, is lucky to be in the small-company end of the stock picking business.
The only sure way to drive a closed-end fund closer to its net asset value is to attract a raider who tries to force management changes or a liquidation.
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Nearly 1 million people will reside in Charlotte's Mecklenburg County -- the state's largest -- by the end of this year, according to estimates from the Office of State Budget and Management.
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