But as a business owner, does your cell phone make you more or less efficient?
But as a business, offering this type of individual support - however much it was needed, ultimately was not sustainable.
I'd hire Mr. Trippi to run a campaign, but as a business consultant he hasn't finished his own product-development stage.
The Kurds, also predominantly Sunni, need Turkey not just as a gateway for oil exports but also as a business partner.
As a result, when I rose up the IT chain, I did so not just thinking about my role as an order taker or as just an internal service provider, but also as a business leader and change agent.
In an interview, the boss was particularly high on the company's imaging and printing business, not just as a cash-spewing consumer business, but as a sophisticated, computation-driven resource for big companies, much like the plans Cisco Systems has for intelligent routers and EMC is planning for storage systems that actively manage how documents are used.
In an interview, the boss was particularly high on the company's imaging and printing business, not just as a cash-spewing consumer business, but as a sophisticated, computation-driven resource for big companies, much like the plans Cisco Systems (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) has for intelligent routers and EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ) is planning for storage systems that actively manage how documents are used.
But as a lesson in business this is actually quite important.
Not only as a way of doing business, but because of its importance as a connection point between the Islamic world and the West and within Islamic societies, values-based investing is poised to be a game changer.
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The U.S. nonmanufacturing sector expanded last month but at a slower pace as a deceleration in business activity outweighed a rise in employment, data said.
He argues that firms should no longer think of gas as a commodity business, but as one where they can add value by bundling all sorts of other services with it.
People used to see it as an IT problem -- but now they see it as a business problem.
The popularity of the oath might also reflect a broader change, with huge implications not just for business education but for management as a whole, says Rakesh Khurana, a professor at Harvard Business School.
Forbes cover girl Kathy Ireland may have earned her celebrity as a glamorous supermodel but her success in business is a tribute the very unglamorous life of busy moms and a laser focus on knowing this customer.
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Salesforce.com saw that Scrum involved not just the adoption of a new business process, but rather as a fundamental transformation of the way work was managed in the company.
When he gave evidence, Mr Abramovich had said Mr Berezovsky was paid millions of pounds for his services as a "political godfather" but was not a business partner.
Art is a business, but if the French movie industry were to be managed as a real business two things would happened: First, based on business forecasts and ROI, only one out of 10 French movies would actually be funded, meaning that 90 percent of the present French production would never make it into the theaters.
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But as a philosophical statement and approach to business, I was pleasantly enlightened by my conversation with Pamela Bellesen who sells a successful wholesale jewelry line from her metalworking studio called Wide Mouth Frog Designs.
We look at social experiences not as destination, but as a way to accelerate your business strategies.
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The building was initially put up for sale 18 months ago as a business but councillors decided to change it to a residential property.
He saw digital photography not as a threat but as a magnificent opportunity to revitalize Kodak's photographic business.
But As your business grows, and you hire a team, they become partially responsible for the success of your business.
Foreign exposure is a mixed blessing these days in the commercial world, but in the defense business it is viewed as a hedge against unpleasant surprises from the federal government such as budget sequestration.
Wilson says that recruiters visiting Dartmouth tell her that Dartmouth doesn't have as strong a business background as some of its competitors but that students can always learn the business.
The idea is that a functional specialist such as a finance professional will directly support a business unit but simultaneously adhere to the standards, programs, and priorities of the corporate finance organization.
Clearly most of us would be but the astonishing history of News Corp is not just the criminality at the News of the World but also its ability to err as a business, on such a scale.
"We think the communities should not see the elephants as menace but rather as a resource, " he told South Africa's Business Day newspaper.
" When pressed whether this is a political issue (related to Apple's stringent app requirements) Graf mentions that "it's a business decision, but it's a technical challenge as well.
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Ameriprise, which was spun out of American Express in 2005 is a wealth management and mutual fund operator, but it has a significant home and life insurance business as well as an annuities business.
It's usually a profitable business, but if a deal falls apart -- as the Sallie Mae offer is threatening to do -- they can suffer serious losses.
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