Of special note were concerns expressed about the supranational mechanisms that would have to be created to implement, monitor and enforce the sort of comprehensive energy management scheme entailed in such a treaty and the "emissions trading" arrangement expected to accompany it.
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That still leaves a tangle of different battery types and power management systems to sort through.
They have - in a year's time, they have sort of booted all of their senior management.
New management should be able to sort things out after the resignation in April of Hiroo Mizushima, Sogo's boss.
The same sort of challenges of integration, identity management, disaster recovery that were addressed as ERP and the rest of the enterprise application suite emerged will now have to be addressed in the world of SaaS. The scope of this work is vastly underestimated, as is the maturity of the available solutions targeted at addressing these problems.
But its highly technical and independent management team had to struggle to sort out competing demands within the organization and among its customers.
Paypal, for example, has a series of Fraud Management Filters that screen payments and sort out transactions that warrant review because of their amount, their origin, or other factors that can be set by a merchant.
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Step 1 must be to establish some sort of inventory of what assets are under IT management and what value they provide to the business.
The nonprofit ICANN formed in September 1998 to sort out who would manage a set of Internet management functions currently handled by the U.S. government and its contractors.
The thing about this sort of business is that direct, hands on, management is very difficult indeed.
When markets earned them double-digit returns, few people looked closely at the costs of fund management, either the visible or the hidden sort.
Full-service brokers offer that sort of account at fees of about 2% of assets under management.
Mr Dimin's company works with fishermen who practise sustainable fisheries management, and helps them get their catches into the sort of high-class restaurants frequented by wealthy conservationists.
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Management is dire, we need someone to come in and sort out this mess.
Which perhaps make it fitting that some of the most seasoned travellers of all, management consultants, appear to have been inspired by just this sort of untruth-in-advertising.
In the past couple of years, the idea has been sort of unique to the hedge funds and upper echelon of the money-management community.
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The domain of capturing this sort of information about customers falls on the people who manage the customer relationship management tools available to the company.
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Perhaps frustrated by eternal crisis management, the Bank of Japan has for years prodded the government to sort out the banks, through stricter inspections of bad loans.
Labor supporters say this creates a "captive audience, " but these meetings are one of management's few opportunities to address workers, since companies are barred from the sort of outreach allowed to union organizers -- such as visiting employees at home.
"This is just a sort of ambit claim to get Foster's to hike the price, " said ABN Asset Management analyst Matthew Hoult.
Now I am sure President Bush and his emergency management people will get on the ball in the coming days and start to offer the sort of comfort and relief that the millions of victims of this massive event require.
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Though that may not be true, it can certainly be said that lax management, waste and worse have been part and parcel of Brussels programmes for decades without ever provoking this sort of excitement.
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As for Centrica's vast number of employees, they'll note that the group says "significant management action will be required to ensure that the business remains competitive" - which is normally the sort of thing companies say prior to announcing that costs and jobs are being cut.
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