It is rife with banks, insurance, software and healthcare companies.
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But since real-estate professionals tend to be salespeople at heart and the market for sales aces is growing, making a switch to sales roles in other, more robust industries such as insurance, pharmaceuticals and computer software, is usually possible, says Jay Hargis, founder and managing partner of Talent Insight Group, a human-resources consulting firm.
And as China shifts from a manufacturing to knowledge-based economy, expect it to invest in "knowledge based" sectors like insurance, finance and hi-tech software firms.
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That interconnectivity was also a key feature for both Ralf Schneider, group CIO for Munich-based insurance giant Allianz and Oliver Bussmann, CIO of German software maker SAP.
She has her headset on and is in the middle of trying to sell an indifferent manager at a big insurance company on the idea of buying a very expensive database software package.
Drucker previously founded Steal Card, a software development company focused on creating web-based applications for insurance companies that was purchased by ChoicePoint in 2006 for an undisclosed sum.
Hardware, software, consultware IBM SHIPPED its first Model 650 to an insurance company in December 1954 and for the next quarter of a century this hardware manufacturer owned the computing business.
HP's software, for instance, helped John Hancock Financial Services, the insurance and mutual fund company, figure out that 1, 000 of its PCs went unused.
"If you are an insurance company and are starting a service for your claims adjusters, the Services Delivery Platform software stack will know how to integrate it with your existing e-business infrastructure, transcode it, and deliver content to these in-car devices, " Desai said.
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