So TCI ordered its systems to pull Learning, prompting Lifetime to retreat.
In the future, he adds, groups of companies will increasingly use systems that pull together the information held in different parts of their organisation.
Still more creative early-detection systems will begin to pull together illness information present in social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, allowing us to see changing disease patterns before they make the morning news.
The online travel website has seen better quarters, with higher taxes, increased spending on technology and content, and a push and pull between airlines and global distribution systems that took a toll in the last quarter of 2010.
They need systems and processes that automatically pull the organization to achieve people-oriented results.
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The ability to pull together all these messages from different systems into a unified thread is definitely valuable in some contexts.
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They need systems and processes that will pull the organization to automatically draw on the full talents and creativity of the people who are doing the work.
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In other market information systems, a user would have to pull the numbers into Excel and make the currency conversions manually, he said.
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As the number of brands grew, it became increasingly more difficult to pull together the financials (which each brand was doing differently, using different systems and assumptions) at the end of every month and quarter.
The major trend he has seen recently is an effort to pull together silos of data into a single data warehouse with feeds from all their different systems to run analytics across all the assets under management.
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We've seen this before: Cars like the Ferrari 575M on our list have clutchless manual gearboxes, derived from Formula 1-style systems, that let you shift via paddles that frame the steering wheel (pull the left paddle for downshifts, the right for upshifts).
Internet-based phone systems are dirt cheap, include unlimited calling, and offer digital features that are impossible to pull off on your antiquated network.
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