The prescription for Greece and others is a familiar one: relaxing the rules that govern jobs, wages and land development will allow the best enterprises to grow bigger and the duds to fail, boosting productivity, GDP growth and tax revenues.
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The government aims to push ahead with the privatisation of state enterprises to the tune of 120bn rupees by the end of March.
As an extension of the SAP Runs SAP program, we were one of the first enterprises to globally introduce iPad, and now with over 2, 000 in use we are one of the leading organizations using it as a business tool.
Autodesk was actually one of the first enterprises to develop online customer communities back in 2001.
Provincial officials reckon that the debts of some of the enterprises are to be written off.
We believe decelerating efforts to offer enterprises the ability to get their fast secure Blackberry email on an iPhone or an Android device is a mistake.
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Another danger is that government aid will do less to revive the fortunes of ailing enterprises than to line the pockets of local officials.
The second reason for building the open cloud centers around the same motivators that bring enterprises to the cloud in the first place: cost efficiency, range of service delivery options, reduced overhead and better asset utilization.
They, too, concentrated on invention and for the most part left the commercialization of their inventions to enterprises with the requisite manufacturing and other resources needed to build and sell products successfully.
While Americans continue to greatly respect the notion of free markets and honor the ability of those who can create the great enterprises with potential to take us all along for the ride, in the final analysis, Americans have come to understand that they have no choice but to trust government more than they trust business.
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The defensive approach is what has driven most enterprises to the brink of their budgets.
We imposed limits about 15% on the increase of credits to enterprises during the first quarter.
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As in China, the Communists cling to the state enterprises as a means of keeping political control over the economy.
The challenge and promise for enterprises moving to the cloud is to realign IT talent to IT projects that add more value, rather than relegate specialists to silos.
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Now, organizations can create a cross-department, enterprise-wide identity management process that provides a layer of intelligence to give enterprises the business insights needed to strengthen IT controls and reduce operational risk.
But even with the potential for productivity gains from newer technologies, it's tough for many enterprises to stomach the prohibitive costs of a companywide upgrade to the latest software and hardware, especially during the current economic downturn.
For example, some believe the government had little choice but to step in and take over the insolvent Fannie and Freddie enterprises, and the TALF program perhaps contributed to the flow of credit during the worst days of the financial crisis.
This model provides the government with continuing control of enterprises critical to the functioning of the economy.
The PMIs for large and medium enterprises moderated to 50.6 and 50, respectively, from 51.1 and 50.8 in May, while the PMI for small enterprises recovered to 47.2 from 45.2.
Some vendors, such as Red Hat and Rackspace, are consciously positioning themselves as advocates of an open cloud built around open source, and foresee great benefits accruing to the enterprises that can charge into the cloud without being locked in to a particular vendor, particularly when it comes to cloud infrastructure.
The purpose of this survey is to build more awareness of the on-the-ground realities of Chinese enterprises in the United States, and to provide insight on what it takes for a Chinese enterprise to succeed in the United States.
With this in mind, the Conference will be held under the banner of the UN International Year of Cooperatives, which aims to raise public awareness of the invaluable contributions of cooperative enterprises to poverty reduction, employment generation and social inclusion.
And, for investors in the enterprises they help to run, they bring more specific risks.
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But mobility re-creates the need for enterprises to re-balance their workloads.
Micro-credit has provided billions of dollars in start-up and growth capital to encourage micro-entrepreneurs around the world to launch their own enterprises to lift themselves out of poverty.
In other words, you could continue to raise interest rates, but if the state owned enterprises are still getting cheap credit, then all you will succeed in doing is killing the private sector while the state owned enterprises continue to invest in a wide range of activities.
Chen said that Romney believes China must obey the principles of free trade and put an end to its practice of manipulating the value of the yuan, erecting trade barriers against foreign companies and enabling Chinese enterprises to steal intellectual property to the detriment of American industries.
If, after one year, the proliferation activities that prompted the first tier sanctions have not been rectified, the President would have the option of denying access for all state-owned enterprises of the PRC to the U.S. capital markets.
Yet the alternative, which is to restructure the enterprises in the hope of selling them for more, will be tricky.
David Gustovich, founder and CEO, IQity Solutions: One of the primary advantages of cloud computing is for small and medium sized enterprises to instantly obtain the benefits of a complete, scalable IT infrastructure without having to implement and administer it directly.
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