Competitors include small firms such as Farmlogs, a Web startup that focuses on crop data, and software maker Farm Works, as well as John Deere, which has software and Web support for managing crop production and machinery.
"Japanese manufacturers were worried that the PAC-3 would be 100% imported, " says Keiichi Nagamatsu, managing director for defense production at the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren).
Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan among others showed how to run big organizations by delivering mass production through managing the supply chain, parsing and manufacturing demand, controlling employees as human resources, and steadily increasing efficiency through economies of scale.
Nick Catliff, managing director of independent production company Lion Television, and who in 1994 persuaded a Scottish judge to allow a TV crew to film an armed robbery trial in the sheriff court, said the latest move was a "foot in the door".
Michael Auret, managing director of South African production firm Spier Films, says the incentives have already made a big difference.
First among the former was financialization, or the trend wherein our economy has become increasingly oriented toward managing financial wealth as opposed to the production of commodities.
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"We are impressed with Syncroness' portfolio, which includes designing and managing the complete development-to-production process for a range of successful consumer products, " says Rebecca Hough, director of sales and marketing for Evatran.
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"The Asian TV programmer doesn't care how many foreigners come in, " says Nicholas James, managing director of Media Asia, a Hong Kong production and distribution company.
"Ndomo has been a bit off the radar for the last few weeks, " said Sam Potter, managing director and chief executive officer of Masnomis, the production company behind the film.
"The Kashagan project has been designed as a zero-discharge production facility, " said Pierre Offant, NCOC chairman managing director.
"In terms of leased lines, it's a savings of about 50 percent, " said Jonathan Levy, managing director of Pentagon Communications, a multimedia company that offers video production, radio production and interactive media production services.
He says the production and supply of food is rarely considered when designing and managing cities.
"The trend globally is that TV is becoming more ethnocentric, " says Amit Khanna, managing director of Plus Channel, one of India's biggest TV production companies.
While exploration and production activity in Iraq will definitely impact the top line of oil services firms, managing costs of operations will be a major headache for the companies.
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