Often no more than a couple of years spent launching a small enterprise--a been-there-done-that experience that may or may not be helpful.
Recently an executive with a major insurance firm shared a story about his experience with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, top in the 2010 JD Powers customer satisfaction study among rental car companies.
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Enterprise Rent-a-Car conducted a similar experiment in the U.S. in 2005, when they launched their Exotic Car Collection in West Los Angeles.
First, he discovered in work with Enterprise Rent-A-Car that a key to measuring loyalty was to give priority to the enthusiastic customers, i.e. those who were delighted.
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For the past 12 years, she has lived in a timeworn, morale-sapping room - first alone, then with her husband, who works for a state-owned enterprise, and now with a 2-year-old son as well.
Inside a vintage 1920s garage, the tasting bar of Porter Creek, a father-and- son enterprise, is a former bowling-alley lane, plunked atop barrels.
Verizon, in U.S. Senate testimony, labeled MCI a criminal enterprise--akin to a mafia clan--and urged liquidation.
AEG, owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz, is a one-of-a-kind enterprise, not just because it owns premiere sports teams, arenas and real estate in some of the best locations in the world, but because it has become more successful than any other company in the world at integrating those assets and turning them into lucrative destination platforms with restaurants, stores and hotels.
Also, each company has a business segment that could be spun off because it has an operating margin superior to its parent and would also command an above-market enterprise multiple as a stand-alone business.
Their production is not a high-technology enterprise: a factory or laboratory that makes fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, or plastics can readily be adapted for the purpose.
One driver for Seagate in the transaction is its move into NAND-Flash based products: the company is nearing the launch of a second-generation enterprise solid-state drive offering, and Luczo says a third-generation product under development jointly with Samsung should arrive in 2012.
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With a well-developed infrastructure, a free-enterprise economy, generally pro-investment policies, and strong export industries, Thailand enjoyed solid growth from 2000 to 2007 - averaging more than 4% per year - as it recovered from the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98.
But it also has a more enterprise-focused feature, in the form of a slideshow function in cahoots with the Polaris Office app, which means you can use your GS III as a controller for a presentation.
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Alexander was a colonel in Grenada where, with loans from brothers John and William (the family was a mini-enterprise in itself), he bought a slave plantation and called it Westerhall.
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Robert Crawford, a former chief executive of the economic development agency Scottish Enterprise, said a succession of CEOs - both at Scottish Enterprise and its predecessor body - had made clear their support for independence, regardless of their position before coming to the job.
Bill Frezza is a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a Boston-based venture capitalist.
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Branson has transformed "trying" into a heroic enterprise--boosted by three unsuccessful attempts to circumnavigate the globe in a helium balloon.
He rose to the top of the oil industry - ending up as treasurer of Enterprise Oil - and gave up a six-figure salary to train as a priest.
"Sun is getting a proven enterprise-class directory built into the operating system - it's a strong direction, " says Gary Rowe, executive vice president of The Burton Group, which sponsored the Catalyst Conference.
Additionally, the two companies plan to jointly develop cloud-based services for the enterprise that will deliver a media-rich, interactive experience to mobile, desktop and presentation devices - instantly, simply and securely from any location.
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CloudBeat is a 2-day event starting Wednesday and focused on the Enterprise Cloud market with a series of customer-centric case studies, big-name fireside chats, and deep-dive breakout sessions, providing big-picture perspective as well as concrete, actionable data.
Now, organizations can create a cross-department, enterprise-wide identity management process that provides a layer of intelligence to give enterprises the business insights needed to strengthen IT controls and reduce operational risk.
Eco-Actif Services, a small social enterprise in Sutton, Surrey, spent a year helping long-term unemployed people find work under the work programme.
It's the fatigue of battling the Moscow Oil Refinery, a public-private enterprise able to refine 73 million barrels a year.
Netscapes problem isnt that either idea--enterprise software or web portal--is a particularly bad one, its the combination and accompanying lack of focus that is deadly.
And Socialtext, a long-time thought leader in enterprise social continues to be a leader in bringing new social capabilities to business, particularly in the mid-market.
For small business customers, Office 365 delivers enterprise-grade technology at a predictable monthly price.
No modern enterprise devises a go-forward strategy without including an essential social media component.
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Its recent talks with Aguas have focused on restructuring the enterprise into a public-private partnership.
In February Wiley will publish The Lean Entrepreneur, a book that takes lean into the enterprise in a step-wise process.
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