The Task Force meets again in October 1999 for review and possible adoption of the working group strategies as a Task Force Action Plan.
Steve Krupp, CEO of consulting group Decision Strategies International, says one of his clients, a financial-services firm, dubbed its portfolio managers the "walking wounded" because they remain traumatized by losses their portfolios sustained during the economic downturn.
's Investment Strategies Group, and between ISG and other entities, most typically Cantor Fitzgerald Securities' government securities brokerage.
Senior folk at Goldman's mighty Principal Strategies group are reportedly in talks with Avenue Capital and other non-banks.
Cantor denies that the traders in Investment Strategies Group ever had access to the waterfall, but that is flatly contradicted by several former Cantorites.
Goldman Sachs (GS), for example, lost several teams of proprietary traders, including Bob Howard, head of its Principal Strategies Group, and eight traders who reported to him, to KKR (KKR).
According to a number of ex-Cantorites, for a time Lutnick and his Investment Strategies Group traders had access to the internal screens that the wholesale brokers used in Cantor's government securities brokerage rooms.
Each quarter Frank Waltman, executive VP for product management, holds a large meeting with the chief investment officers of each fund group to review performance and strategies.
"The current business model, selling low-margin goods and delivering them for free, is not viable for the long term, " says Rebecca Nidositko, senior analyst for online retail strategies at Yankee Group.
The group bounces ideas, recommending strategies and contacts.
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Done right, it galvanizes the group to formulate plausible counter-strategies.
Each group comprised individuals who adopted one of three behavioural strategies.
Sandra Swirski, of Venn Strategies, a lobbyist for the manufacturing group, figures the Senate will likely pass the Finance-produced bill in late February, before the March 1 deadline.
That decision, difficult as it may have been, helped lay the foundation for transforming a paternalistic company into a globally ambitious group willing to embrace new technologies and modern management strategies.
"We are seeing a big '80s influence, but modernized for fall, " says Roseanne Morrison, fashion director at the Doneger Group, a source of global market trends and merchandising strategies for the retail and fashion industry.
Prior to joining GM, Ferguson was at the business advisory and strategic communications firm Public Strategies, where he worked with a diverse and international group of clients as a senior strategist.
But the group was originally housed in a Washington public-relations firm called Public Strategies -- the same firm used by SBC -- and spokesman Miller now works out of SBC's Washington office.
Participating in the original conversation were a program that uses public health strategies to reduce urban violence ( Cure Violence), a group of young people creating health care tools for mobile devices ( Medic Mobile), and organizations using crisis mapping and SMS messaging to promote peace and facilitate humanitarian relief ( Ushahidi and Sisi ni Amani).
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Students in the other group spent that time reading an article about how memory works and learning new strategies for recalling material.
One catalyst driving the push is the proliferation of social media mining tools, which allow companies to test and tweak new go-to-market strategies in real time and without the need for an actual focus group.
On Monday, the President gathered a group of college presidents at the White House to talk about rising college costs and strategies they can pursue to reduce these costs.
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"There are a lot of products out there that use tricky wording so you believe it's whole grain when it's not, " says Cynthia Harriman, director of food and nutrition strategies at the Whole Grains Council, a subsidiary of the nonprofit food advocacy group Oldways Preservation Trust.
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We have highly complementary business operations and we have pursued very similar strategies by broadening out our product ranges and distribution channels, '' said Jonathan Bloomer , group chief executive of Prudential, who will head up the combined companies.
Yet the very enormity of this contention underscores a conspicuous omission in the communications strategies pursued by both Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1), on its end, and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE) on theirs.
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