On a sweltering afternoon in March, Eoin Slavin, an executive at Rio-based development firm Landis, wandered the mostly forgotten working-class neighborhoods in the shadow of the elevated highway searching for prospects.
We live in time that has moved well beyond competency driven models, yet organizations still primarily use competency-based interviews, competency-based development, competency-based performance reviews, and competency-based rewards as their framework for doing business.
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Youth Visioning seeks to empower young people in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to take action for sustainable living and development, and by doing so encourage locally-based development of new skills and opportunities.
Dan Riordan, president of residential development for Turnberry Associates, a Miami-based development company, says he moved to Washington a few years ago after seeing a gap in the market for modern, high-rise luxury condos.
But the punishing pace of web-based development has also given birth to a host of more flexible methodologies that deal with the real-world challenge of getting a bunch of wayward nerds to collaborate on getting a product out of the door.
Four decades after its establishment, SERVOL continues to implement a number of community-based development and educational projects primarily because the socio-economic problems that led to its formation, such as poverty, sharp socio-economic inequalities, youth criminality or gang violence and drug abuse as well as the disintegration of family structures, high illiteracy rates among and lack of livelihood and educational opportunities for the poor majority, remain prevalent in the country today.
The land was sold by the Welsh Development Agency to INTEGRA, an Ammanford-based business development company, and developed with a grant from the aid package announced by the assembly in the wake of the Corus closures.
Laura Katen is President of Katen Consulting, a women-owned NY-based professional development training company.
San Francisco-based Catellus Development was spun off by Santa Fe Pacific Corp. in 1990.
Toll Brothers (TOL) said in November that it had agreed to acquire Seattle-based CamWest Development.
Kinvey is probably the most technical of the various cloud based app development platforms I looked at.
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The US is the world's largest provider of humanitarian aid, according to the London-based Overseas Development Institute.
Nor are major stakeholders such as the California Public Employees' Retirement System and Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Development Co.
From where I sit in the technology-based economic development community, federal support for regional innovation programs is also vital for our economic recovery.
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London-based business development firm Launchpad Europe is looking for a few good start-ups worldwide for a shot at some real venture capital cash.
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The Pier Village complex weathered Sandy well because of its up-to-date building materials, according to David Barry, the president of Hoboken-based Ironstate Development Co.
This state has filled an action against Illinois-based Watershed Development Corp.
As a member of the technology-based economic development community in Northeast Ohio, I am excited about what this project could mean for secure, domestic energy production.
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"Jack" Zenger is the co-founder and CEO of Zenger Folkman, a strengths-based leadership development firm that created a methodology that enables leaders to move faster and higher.
The third-generation Gobi modem chipsets also have an integrated application processor and hardware accelerators with a feature rich, Linux-based application development environment and optional mobile access point software stack.
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In addition, the company transferred its Symbian software activities as well as about 2, 300 employees to Accenture, which will provide Symbian-based software development and support services for Nokia smartphones.
Regardless, we're sure that the N900's active fan-base will deliver a MeeGo update outside of official channels, especially since the N900 is already being used as a platform for ARM-based MeeGo development.
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The creative team swelled to the size of a small film crew, including several actors, two photographers, a videographer, an illustrator and a handful of programmers at a U.K.-based app development company.
And John Townley-Johnson, chief executive at Houses for Africa, a South Africa-based property development and finance company, travels from South Africa to the University of Chicago's London, Singapore or Chicago's campuses every six weeks.
Last month, restaurants on the Pearl were instructed to suspend alcohol sales until further notice, according to a person familiar with the matter at Doha-based United Development Company, the real-estate developer that built the island.
Norte Energia said Friday morning that it had created a permanent commission with affected people along the Xingu River, most of them small property owners, farmers and a director of one Amazon based sustainable development research center.
My work in the local community continued for several years before I left to work on the state level as the Executive Director of the Louisiana Association for Community Economic Development, served as the Co-Chair of the MidSouth Collaborative for Nonprofit Development, a Director of Programs for a faith-based nonprofit community development corporation, and as the Director of the Nonprofit Resource Center at a volunteer center.
Navin Geria, vice president of research and development for the Spa Dermaceutical Products Group, a New Jersey-based consumer product development company that specializes in custom development of anti-aging skincare and products for dermatologists and spa chains, says that a new range of anti-aging technology called cosmeceuticals (cosmetics that companies says possess drug-like affects) will go a step further.
But in a global economy based on knowledge, based on innovation, no development strategy can be based solely upon what comes out of the ground.
One London-based computer expert said the development should help light-based data transmission go mainstream in server farms.
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