Of course, it's no secret that HDTV prices in general have been sinking like a stone over the past half year or so, and while the boutiques are banking on customers finally coughing up the extra dough for "knowledge staff" and better all-around service, we're betting that price still remains king in the land of HDTV.
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Who has the knowledge and the staff to offer the customer the most personal customer service?
There is no need for local sales staff or knowledge of the Chinese market.
Inside counsel at PBGC has admitted to us that the agency lacks the staff and knowledge to undertake such inquiries.
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It also said that a far larger number of staff had knowledge of the abuse and were unwilling to address the issue.
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On August 6, 2008, Palin was told that the Legislature's investigator, Steven Branchflower, had requested "a laundry list" of records from the governor's office: "Emails, files correspondence, names and addresses of any and all staff that would have any knowledge of Walt's firing, " wrote her then-chief of staff, Mike Nizich.
However, none of Mr. Gingrich's staff had sufficient knowledge to be able to verify the facts of the letters.
To be sure, some were traders, but most were IT, finance and administrative staff with unique knowledge of the unit's systems.
In his memoir, The FBI Pyramid, Mr Felt wrote that Patrick Gray, who succeeded Hoover, was "sharing all the Bureau's knowledge with the White House staff".
The challenge I face as a small business owner, therefore, is how can I give my staff access to knowledge and new ideas without breaking the bank by, say, sending them all over the world to attend conferences and the like?
He said there were also concerns the GFSC set its own priorities and that there was a need for further training of commission staff to ensure full knowledge of the areas they regulated.
In the course of the last year of investigations into the activities of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, no one on the Committee or its staff, to my knowledge, has charged that anything unlawful had been done.
The staff typically has no product knowledge and they have no interest in offering you any type of service.
The report also found "considerable variation" in how the skills and knowledge of workers were appraised across HSC staff groups.
"At this point, we aren't in need of volunteers, as we are using zoo staff members who have ape behavior knowledge and experience, " she said.
Dave Brown, from Lancashire, works for the global services arm of BT, told BBC Five Live that agency and contract staff were taken on in the knowledge they would be the first to go.
Cripe and Caplan say it has been Tenet's practice over the years to deny knowledge by management of allegations of wrongdoing by hospital doctors and staff.
As well as speaking to traders about the origins of food, gaps in knowledge - especially among children - can be filled by the staff of the 15 city farms in London.
Starting in early 2013, the four-year initiative will focus on enhancing teacher education systems in eight countries so as to train an adequate number of qualified teachers to achieve EFA. Project activities will boost national capacity in ministries and key teacher training institutions, staff skills and competencies and supporting resources such as a knowledge base, with ICT as a major component.
And bosses can be sent to prison for up to 20 years if their companies fall foul of the FCPA. In theory, they could be jailed because a staff member at a foreign subsidiary bribed an official without their knowledge.
With so much CRM now entirely based on software, this tends to fall on IT staff with the view that getting this information is a database and knowledge capture problem.
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Obama met this week with Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to a U.S. military official with direct knowledge of the talks.
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This matters, as knowledge-based work makes skills increasingly portable, and companies need to fire the passion of their staff with more than money.
In 2002, it was revealed that commission-hungry sales staff working for London Electricity drummed up new customers by forging their signatures and switching them without their knowledge or consent.
Staff needed to be convinced that this accorded with the school's philosophy of open dissemination of knowledge and information, and the local education authority's historic reluctance to endorse free software had to be overcome.
As the workforce ages, and key staff retire in greater numbers, and as the market for talented individuals is heating up, effective knowledge management is crucial to ensure that as people leave the corporation, knowledge remains.
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