They thought hard about the trends impacting the world, enterprises and society.
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Enterprises the world over will need to devise new strategies to engage the digital consumer in increasingly clever ways.
More than 1, 400 organizations around the world, including large enterprises, educational institutions, government agencies and the US Military, currently use Second Life to hold meetings, conduct training and prototype new technologies more efficiently and cost effectively.
Without either, an innovator cannot succeed, as millions throughout the developing world who struggle to build enterprises can attest.
Personal data assets are fast becoming a new asset class, traded among these companies and marketing departments of enterprises around the world.
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Micro-credit has provided billions of dollars in start-up and growth capital to encourage micro-entrepreneurs around the world to launch their own enterprises to lift themselves out of poverty.
The conventional wisdom is that the economy must grow at least 8% to create enough jobs to ease the pain from Zhu's reform of state-owned enterprises, although World Bank country chief Yukon Huang says a 5% growth can avert social unrest.
Based on the Fusion ioMemory platform that leading enterprises around the world trust to accelerate their data centers, the 420 GB Fusion ioFX connects via the PCI Express bus to provide studios and artists with a new memory tier that bridges the gap between creative potential and hardware performance in the production pipeline.
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Today we serve 1, 600 service providers in about 50, 000 enterprises all over the world.
Probably not, though when it comes to the murky world of Chinese state-owned enterprises, nothing can be said with all certainty.
Since 1997, for example, indigenous folk in Oaxaca, Mexico, have been encouraged by the Mexican government and the World Bank to establish community forest enterprises.
The public and hybrid cloud services will be jointly provided by Mobily and Virtustream and will offer world-class cloud services to enterprises and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).
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This approach derives from our majority investor, the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), which fosters entrepreneurship and builds economically sound enterprises in the developing world.
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That must be some die-hard IT control freaks, because the iPad seems to have taken the computing world by storm, including leading enterprises with high level security concerns, such as financial institutions.
Just as farmers with privately owned real property grow ever more food so they can share it with others, not to hoard it, so private enterprises in the virtual world share the innovations that allow people to share information.
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Mailman suggests that novice investors check out the Acumen Fund, a non-profit venture fund that invests in innovative leaders and social enterprises throughout the developing world, and TONIIC, a network of investors, entrepreneurs, funds and thought-leaders working to provide early-stage funding for global social enterprises.
Enterprises from all over the world will be networking, exchanging ideas and establishing relations that can form an enduring basis for cooperation and opportunity.
But over the past few decades we have moved our world to a point where institutions, enterprises, organizations and individuals most often need to seek change.
The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.
In the past, the world in which we created our institutions, enterprises and organizations was built on a number of truths.
He said the green challenge was also an opportunity "for new markets, for new jobs, new technologies, new exports where companies, universities and social enterprises in Britain can lead the world".
Thats why smart entrepreneurs are even today launching enterprises and crafting business models around the new world of infinite and zero.
History is full of arrogance preceding failure in all kinds of enterprises, but nowhere more than in the world of technology.
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Meanwhile, despite promises to desist, China's state enterprises are among the chief armourers of some of the world's more dubious regimes, peddling nuclear, chemical and missile technology.
"They had been engaged in the process from 18 months to two years of discussion with government and management and now, suddenly, they present memoranda and say you have got 14 days to come to an agreement with our demands otherwise we are going to go out on strike, " Ian Phillips, a special adviser to Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe, told the BBC's World Business Report.
Old world apple carts are upset, but new winners emerge, including numerous enterprises given up for dead.
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Five hundred million people around the world, mostly South Asians, watch Subhash Chandra's Zee Entertainment Enterprises' 16 channels.
Sam Stathis of Stathis Enterprises and Theometrics wanted to make NYC the technology capital of the world.
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Post-Soviet Armenia has embraced trade, made legal reforms, privatized state-owned enterprises and slashed inflation to 2.9% since joining the World Trade Organization in 2003.
In 1999, Ma founded "Alibaba.com, " which currently operates the world's largest online marketplace, serving small- and medium-sized enterprises by connecting global buyers with sellers in China.
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