Mike Schaffner directs the information technology project management group for the oil and gas products and services company, Cameron, in Houston and aims to infuse a business-based approach to IT management.
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We found five interrelated criteria that form a new blueprint for how corporations can maximize their investments in CSR: business-based social purpose, clear theory of change, quality and depth of information, concentrated effort, and partnering with experts.
While 91% of advisors have at least one fee-based account in their book of business, the still remaining overall high percentage of transactional business illustrates that fee-based business has a very long way to go.
One company that has changed its business strategy is the Florida-based boating company Marine Max, which introduced a scale-based business model in addition to innovative products and services.
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From here on, the factors important to success in the traditional brick-and- mortar retail business -- pricing power based on brand strength and economies of scale -- also will be required on the Internet.
Acquiring Horizon, which means a work on six new nuclear plants for ten to 15 years, is such a decision, as are sale this year of the California-based hard drive business to Western Digital and spin-off of a Japan-based LCD panel business.
Another possible drawback: In some cases, crowd-sourced workers assigned to short tasks aren't likely to feel any real engagement with a business, says Michael Alter, the president of Chicago-based small-business payroll firm SurePayroll.
At the laboratory of Aurora, a San Diego-based firm specializing in such mass screening, little needles squirt a billionth of a liter of a potential drug into 3, 456 millimeter-wide wells. (The squirters come from another silicon-based business: ink-jet printers.) In the wells are biologically interesting molecules, such as enzymes, or cells that may present targets to new medicines.
The Employment Policies Institute, a business-friendly non-profit based in Washington, D.
JiWire, a leader in the space since 2003, pioneered the ad-supported Wi-Fi business model through location-based advertising.
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Birchbox, for the uninitiated, is the NYC-based business of Beauchamp and fellow Harvard alum Haley Barna, is a subscription-based service that delivers a monthly box of beauty samples to your door.
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Even if your business is very small, like a home-based business or solo-preneur business, are there disconnects between you and your staff?
Unsustained by anything resembling directorial control, Luke Wilson holds the screen for almost two hours in a front-and-center turn as Jack Harris, a Houston-based business fixer who, in the mid-nineties, had an Internet version of greatness thrust upon him.
The Clinton-Gore relationship has always been more business-minded than based on friendship.
The project aimed to deliver a new business support programme through collaboration with more than 17 national and locally-based business support organisations and educational establishments.
Acer has just come off the launch of its business-focused, Microsoft Windows-based W500 tablet and its consumer-centric, Android-based A500 tablet, both of which sport 10.1-inch displays.
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The most expensive international city for business travel -- based on the average cost for dining, entertainment and lodging -- was Tokyo, followed by Copenhagen, Perth, Sydney then Stockholm.
She reminded the class that an entire country stood behind them, and that through efforts like the Joining Forces initiative, the combined efforts of diverse organizations from government and business to faith-based organizations and school districts would be backing them up.
New World Development, led by the family of billionaire Cheng Yu-tung, moved to expand its global hotel business by acquiring Dallas-based Rosewood Hotels and Resorts last year.
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Every community needs to appraise its values--and look at whether the community, parents, business leaders, faith-based leaders, political leaders, and schools are doing everything that they can to keep our nation's children safe from harm.
At U.S.-based Stanford Business School, networking between graduates is aided by the use of a specially created Web-based e-mail system.
Intel is keeping up a particularly fast pace in its system-on-a-chip (SoC) business, based on its low-power Atom core.
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And thanks to that six-year-old Texas-based business, The Lash Lounge, she also looks pretty damned good for a 37-year-old mom of two.
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Suncalled the acquisition a further investment into the future of Web-based computing, to be pioneered by vendors like Oracle, with its new Sun-based Business Online database outsourcing service.
Business partnerships: Not mentioned by Weinman, but important to mention, is the use of cloud-based services via business partners, which may likely be non-cloud, non-IT companies.
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Michael Ware, 37, accidently got into the arcade cabinet-building business when he designed an emulator-based machine for his wife, 35, as a Christmas present back in December 2002.
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The company is trying to re-build its business from being primarily a US-based DVD rental service to a global film and TV streaming operation.
Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.
But something else happened that was unforeseen: a realization within the company that its maturing "brown operations, " marvelous as they were in delivering 13 million packages every business day, were not enough to compete in an industry that was transitioning into a global, knowledge-based logistics business.
Web-based business models, on the other hand, faced the challenge of digitalizing content and processes.
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