For each, Dedio asks a simple question: Does the company's product or service change the behavior of the consumer or capital spender?
Perhaps the Secret Service agents thought their behavior, if discovered, would raise no eyebrows.
No evidence suggests that any misconduct in Colombia reflected normal behavior by Secret Service agents, Napolitano added.
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In addition to scanning the code of an app, the service will watch for fishy behavior such as excess battery drain and abnormal resource consumption.
Banks may also need to balance customer service improvements against customer attitudes and behavior towards fraud, especially if losses increase significantly.
Professional fliers like Randy Petersen of WebFlyer.com and Tom Parsons of BestFares say there's no reason not to scoop up great deals from JetBlue while the prices are low and the carrier is on its best behavior, following a service meltdown after a Valentine's Day storm.
Called Enhanced Standards of Conduct, the new guidelines given to all Secret Service personnel make clear that standards of behavior required in the United States apply on missions abroad, the sources said.
Some hope for Merck and Schering's sales may come from Impact Rx, a prescription data service that bases its predictions on the behavior of a select group of doctors who prescribe high volumes of drugs.
In some ways, Sproxil has an easier job than the pharma companies, which are responsible for marketing the service and ultimately, getting people to change their behavior.
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Nobody would deny that retailing has gotten tougher in the past few years, but equally so, brands have learned that if they can create some degree of emotional engagement (in additional to the rational stuff like merchandise range, fair pricing strategies, and customer service), they are bound to see positive behavior toward the brand.
This kind of behavior has already cost at least one oil service company.
Clearly, we need to get to the bottom of the outrageous behavior on the part of the Internal Revenue Service.
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"We wish to determine whether those events were indicative of a pattern of behavior by agents or officers of the Secret Service, and need to be addressed systemically, or if they instead constituted an isolated incident warranting action only with respect to the individuals involved, " said the letter from Lieberman and Collins.
Partner with it, and it will, it seems, alert you to behavior which it feels may infringe its terms of service.
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But black hat hackers may stay away from the tool for fear that using a cloud service for illegal activity could allow law enforcement to track their behavior.
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Our customers need to be agile so they can not only stay ahead of the competition, but also be able to quickly change the underlying behavior and logic of their strategic business systems in customer service, new product development and marketing.
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Referring to an argument that the Secret Service agents involved should be spared harsh penalties because others engaged in similar behavior, Napolitano was unpersuaded.
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"The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable, " DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said, also calling it a distraction.
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People start to become demoralized and dysfunctional, efficiency plummets, client service and sales suffer and convoluted mistakes are made, up to and including illegal behavior such as fraud and larceny.
In Singapore, we sought employees who could demonstrate "aggressive hospitality" toward guests, rather than "speak when spoken to" behavior, to create a competitive edge within a society that is not traditionally service-based.
The incident has put a spotlight on Secret Service agents traveling overseas, and has raised the possibility that the related probes may detail behavior well known to the small community of people charged with protecting the president and other top political figures.
This is a significant shift in consumer behavior that is disrupting existing value chains for video content providers, advertisers and mobile service providers.
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In an email, Biggar said that requiring an opt-in for her company's service would put real-world stores at a disadvantage as they compete with online retailers that track shoppers' behavior from the moment they enter a website.
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