Large providers of care homes in England are to have their financial records regularly scrutinised in future to spot potential business problems.
He told a packed room that Microsoft is working hard on several fronts so it can become a "three- or four-trick pony, " holding onto the top spot in business software, but also becoming a force in search, advertising and entertainment.
During the week, it is a popular lunch spot thick with business suits.
Do state attorneys general have a soft spot for big business?
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That was good enough to move HP past Dell to the top spot in the PC business.
Rather than monitor transactions on a website, Detica typically works for large financial institutions overseeing their everyday business to spot fraudsters and con artists.
But demand for boutique hotels is a bright spot in the lodging business, which is otherwise expected to slow over the next two years, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Tech geeks today will need to keep their ears and eyes wide open so that they can spot opportunities, observe business and market scenarios and learn from beyond their own shop to achieve a Henry Ford-like success.
That's especially true for GM, which gets 60% of its sales from foreign markets, providing a bright spot amid an otherwise gloomy business outlook.
But because founding scientists often lack sufficient business nous to spot commercial opportunities, they are keen to find professional managers to replace them before they go public.
But these days UBS U.S. wealth management business is the hot spot on Wall Street.
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He puts the 40 managers of EDS' business units on the spot in monthly conference calls.
Foods masquerading as drugs are the hot spot in the packaged-food business.
The proposed merger brings a spot of cheer to a troubled business.
The University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business has claimed top spot in the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2007 ranking of full-time MBA programmes ( full report and methodology).
Price laid out the eight steps to an impressive on-the-spot reply, which, in business, refers to a clear, concise answer that provides just enough of the right information to satisfy the questioner.
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"Companies like IBM that have well diversified product portfolios across global markets have been far better insulated than vendors with specialized offerings, " he says, pointing in particular to the company's IT services business as a bright spot.
For the third year in a row Albuquerque, with an unemployment rate of just 4.9%, claims the lowest business costs in the U.S., propelling the city to the number one spot on our list of the Best Places for Business and Careers.
Just how much of a business boost a 2011 playoff spot would bring the Mets in both 2011 and 2012 is hard to pinpoint.
They shared a special kind of brilliance that too often is overlooked in the intelligence business: the ability to spot a pattern with the fewest possible facts.
In an otherwise dim economic picture, small business stands out as a bright spot.
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As a bright spot in the struggling conglomerate, the games business is also the prime example of how Sony plans to deliver content to its devices using its online network.
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Most importantly, all of these efforts are focused on the mobile SoC business, which is arguably the sweet spot.
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First, a business education can provide the capability to spot opportunity.
LinkedIn has taken its time to achieve stellar status but as comScore pointed out this week the business network site reached the number 2 spot for social networks in the USA in June (as measured by unique visitors), overtaking former social network darling, MySpace.
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That spells bad news for retail game stores like Game Spot, although they will continue to do a brisk business in used games.
The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them.
The ability to spot inefficiencies and trends, and then turn them into actionable business ideas is a useful skill.
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For example, a company with multiple business lines might use an ERP app to synthesize customer and business information from the different businesses in order to spot cross-selling opportunities or identify potential cost savings.
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Other firms have thinned their top ranks of partners who didn't bring in enough business, making it even tougher to elbow into a spot.
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