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Overcoming the Great Divide: Embedding Corporate Strategies Effectively
- 21 Nov 2011 13:03
- by Holly Lyke Ho Gland
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When the Growth Team Membership (GTM) program surveyed corporate strategy executives to identify their top challenges for 2011, the primary challenge was, for the second year in a row, developing effective strategy implementation plans. When asked to identify the root cause of this challenge, respondents indicated it was a lack of common objectives...
Airline industry in recession: European airlines facing a harsh winter
- 31 Oct 2011 14:56
- by Lida Mantzavinou
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Last month IATA published its 2011 revised estimates, showing an expected 60 per cent decrease in airline industry profits, over 2010. No doubt airlines are in a far worse position in 2011, following a large rebound in 2010. The European and North American sovereign debt crisis, rising fuel prices, turmoil in the Arab world and Japan’s earthquake, ...
Why Blame S&P?
- 09 Aug 2011 06:55
- by Kirti Timmanagoudar
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The president of United States, Mr. Warren Buffett and the analyst on the wall street; many are blaming S&P for downgrading the US ratings. I have the highest respect for the world's greatest investor.. Eu to Buffett? In stead of congratulating S&P for doing a good job and being honest (even at the potential of getting this wrath from various angl...
On St. Patrick's Day - The unintended consequence of a lost passport, Murphy's Law and a Mosquito...
- 17 Mar 2011 10:46
- by Noel Anderson
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Earlier in the week I was returning home from Zurich when I realised that I had lost my passport. Up until that point, my journey home from the mountains had been perfect and I thought to myself “typical, Murphy’s Law!” But what is Murphy’s Law? On St. Patrick’s Day, I thought it fitting to debunk a British fallacy linked to this theory, whils...
Mining text - A new way to increase ROI and reduce churn
- 03 Mar 2011 13:24
- by Avinash Bhaskar
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I recently started with a new research on exploring the exciting technology area of text mining. The more I have learnt about the technology, the more I have realised the wonderful implications that it could potentially have on such multi-billion dollar sectors such as retail, banking & financial sector and healthcare. What the heck is text mining...
"Sprint Inside" - The Case for Integrated Network Access
- 05 Jan 2011 13:21
- by Nancee Ruzicka
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A very successful branding campaign was launched years ago by Intel in conjunction with PC manufacturers known as "Intel Inside". There were numerous video and print ads as well as little stickers on the PCs indicating that Intel was actually inside. Intel and other chip manufacturers make bits of silicon that are used in every electronic device ma...
Masterstroke in the Indian Water-Power Sector by GE Water and BHEL
- 06 Dec 2010 12:42
- by Fredrick Royan
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The recent announcement of GE Water striking a strategic alliance with BHEL in India is very much a masterstroke in the booming Indian power sector- http://www.bhel.com/press_release/press_pop.php?press_id=458. Specialist water & wastewater treatment companies in India and even from overseas are gearing up for the windfall of opportunities in the r...
Clean Coal, Dirty Coal
- 29 Jul 2010 21:35
- by Sapan Agarwal
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Despite repeated urging from environmental activist to employ renewable energy for energy needs, coal remains and will likely continue to remain a key source for power generation in Asian countries. Reasons - abundance (296.9 thousand million tons) and wide distribution (43 percent of primary energy needs and 54 percent of the electricity in Asia-p...
Economic Impact: Cutting Costs? What you don't see.. may hurt you!
- 10 May 2010 08:14
- by Donald Savant
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Most companies are feeling the effects of the economic downturn. The mantra echoed around the world, "Cash is King," triggered companies to activate cost cutting measures of all kinds; budget cuts, re-organization, down-sizing, et. al. And now that there is a little uptick within certain markets, companies watch with bated breath to see if they mad...
If Social Media is supposed to be cheaper, why the growing budgets?
- 21 Apr 2010 17:33
- by Donald Savant
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Take a look at a small collection of headlines from a recent Google search on “social media spending;”…Social Media Marketing Spend to Hit $3.1 Billion by 2014… Social Media Spending to Hit $757M in 2010… Marketers Increase Social Media Spending, ROI Not a Concern... B2B Marketers: 490% Increase in Social Media Spend by 2014?... Social media spend...
10 Tips for Navigating the Social Media Landscape
- 12 Apr 2010 04:46
- by Marcus Westling
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You would be forgiven for feeling at least some anxiety when it comes to determining the most appropriate social media strategy for your organization. It’s difficult enough navigating through the seemingly endless landscape of possible channels, but now we’re supposed to know when and what to submit, post, tweet, upload, link, buzz, digg, up vote,...
You are what you hand out
- 06 Apr 2010 17:08
- by Jannette Whippy
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Everyone is familiar with the saying "Don’t judge a book by its cover" but I can honestly say that I ALWAYS judge a book by its cover (even after I've been proven wrong, I still do it). First impressions are everything. Take this book cover for example (see Figure 1):Figure 1: The 1994 cover art for "Arabian Jazz" by Diana Abu JaberI would have nev...
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