Gift cards, in short, are a fundamentally bricks-and-mortar focused business in an e-tailing world.
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But a decision-focused business with clear roles, good information and appropriate incentives contributes to quick, thoughtful action and high performance.
Essentially, it became a health-focused business that happens to make high-performance blenders.
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He calls Apple a rare example of a consumer-focused business with high switching costs because customers are attached to its music, photo and other applications.
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With a customer-focused business model that effectively uses the nation's airports as distribution points, net margins of 20% are feasible, estimates Horacio Zambrano, a Wedbush Morgan analyst who tracks the security industry.
We agree that the casual and core markets are very distinct, which is why we organized into our two focused business units: Core and Kids, Family and Casual, over two years ago.
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The current economic downturn, which has been exacerbated by the build-up and unraveling of complex financial instruments, has made it clear that some overly focused business leaders pursued innovation and profit at the expense of proper risk management.
Government will become more focused, business people are more focused, the banks are more focused, capital markets are more focused.
First of all, Ruby developers are not by and large focused on business applications.
Elam co-hosted Black Enterprise Report, a nationally syndicated program focused on business, career and financial education from 2005 to 2007.
As a focused directory business, we also believe returns to scale and potential incremental operating margin remain significant.
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The Liberty Ventures Group is primarily focused on business investments.
YouSendIt is a file-sharing service focused on business-oriented uses such as: lawyers sharing files with lawyers or companies sharing files with their manufacturing partners overseas, or physicians sharing medical images.
Khloe Kardashian, who was there with her husband Lamar Odom, said that thanks to the influence of her father, Robert Kardashian, she and her sisters have always been focused on business.
As organizations become more focused on business objectives, gamification can help make the workplace more engaging and productive because it changes the rules of engagement and inspires employees to change behaviors as a result.
More focused on business as it should be.
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Through the 1970s, when it was still known as Blue Ribbon Sports, the company focused its business model on finding low-cost producers overseas in an effort to undercut competitors and gain entry into the marketplace.
Other universities, such as Stanford University, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University, are affiliated with UNext, a privately held company that has just started a degree-granting online university focused on business training.
The company has traditionally focused its business on the English-speaking market -- it has over 100 shopping centers in Australia, New Zealand, UK and the U.S. -- but last year extended its global reach into the fast growing Brazilian market.
However, many small business owners are focused on making their business successful on a day-to-day basis, and put off thinking about a plan in case the marriage fails.
To cross the chasm from the small group of experts to the much larger group of business-focused users, one must find specific business problems to solve and create purpose-built solutions.
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Like a reconfigured checkout, easier to access customer service area or a small business department focused on female customers in acknowledgment that small business owners are often female and that women shop for electronics differently than men.
On the other side, working at McKinsey and with TechnoServe, a business-focused nonprofit in East Africa, I came to see that business can be a creative force for empowerment and upliftment.
And Wells Fargo, with business focused more on retail banking, has risen only about 1%.
He called on the U.S. government to spur more hiring with tax legislation focused on private business.
It includes companies with superior management teams who are focused on a business plan that makes sense.
The aptly named MOO is the big kahuna of equities-based ETFs focused on the business of the farm.
Comverge in New Jersey has created a business focused on tapping air conditioners in homes and small businesses.
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