Now it comes from loosely affiliated global networks that threaten us and other nations across continents.
But technology today has enabled mini-networks and single offices to become virtual global networks as well.
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This is why consulting firms and accountancies have been falling over one another to build seamless global networks.
As they do not now have global networks, economies of scale from using Allied's distribution system would be lower.
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No worthy effort to train civil servants in just one capital will be of much use in neutralising these global networks.
"As the world moves to global networks, we aim to be the plumbers, with our optics, silicon, software and services, " McGinn says.
Cyberpunk star William Gibson, Neal Stephenson and a number of other writers have also taken cracks at portraying global networks replete with virtual reality.
Would-be challengers have difficulty reaching even the lowest rungs of the competitive ladder, and have no chance of building the global networks clients want.
We will also encourage firms to identify root causes and address them concomitantly throughout their global networks and not just within their U.S. member firms.
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To make sure its frequent flyers stayed with it for long-haul trips, Alaska struck code-share deals with 15 airlines to tap into their global networks.
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While I know the independent shops have been growing in importance for many years now, the huge global networks had always dominated the Super Bowl.
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The show, taped before an audience of more than 2, 500 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, premiered on the global networks of CNN on Thanksgiving night.
Each one provides digital information, human assistance and global networks designed to help a small business maximize its opportunity to create and execute a successful export strategy.
Finding an American satellite operator to plug the gap in Sky Global Networks may well seem to him to be the crowning jewel in a glittering business career.
Behind every online experience are global networks and data centers.
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The challenges could seem overwhelming, said Cousteau, but Malec-McKenna added that there are a great number of global networks open to people to take action and make even the smallest changes to their lifestyle.
The research unearths a tip for travelers having trouble using their frequent-flier miles: It might be easier to get "free" tickets using miles on low-fare carriers than it is on big carriers with global networks.
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While the prevailing view might be that nothing can be done to predict these disruptions, the future belongs to companies that can orchestrate across their global networks to recalibrate and respond with hyper efficiency and precision.
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He also wrote about software agents that go out into the network and come back with any information you want. (Sound a little like a search engine?) Bear and Benford also created fictional global networks long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of its creator Tim Berners Lee.
For advice, I asked members of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, one of the most influential global networks of business owners, social entrepreneurs and industry experts created by KPMG and the EM Lyon Business School, along with Nanyang Technological University, Zhejiang University, Only Lyon and Action Community for Entrepreneurship for in 2008.
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NineSights gives him the opportunity to tap into global inventor networks, again helping to accelerate product development.
The monopoly of the global ad agency networks on working with global marketers is about to end.
So far, this is still an early peek into the on-going work of the Global Solution Networks project.
However, to gain the greatest efficiencies, truly global production networks need not only open markets but markets with similar regulatory systems.
He has reported extensively on major stories for CNN's global news networks from the Middle East, Afghanistan, Russia and Chechnya, Europe and the Far East.
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His current research interests include the genetic influence on social behavior, the structure of global trade networks and the structure of Italian politics.
Nokia is one of the largest smartphone makers in the world with one of the best global distribution networks, in particular in rapidly growing emerging markets.
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Meanwhile, its competitors were putting together global purchasing networks that were not only more responsive, but were not locked into high costs linked to the strength of sterling.
Equally significant was Mr Qaddafi's decision, in 2003, to let British and American experts take apart his secret weapons programme, bringing a windfall of information about global smuggling networks.
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