Initially all focused on a geographic or business line silo for banking, insurance, wealth and investment management.
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Apple also hopes to add luster to a business line that has momentum but little market share.
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He made it clear that governing is not really a new business line the company is eager to develop.
Ricks' computers appraise companies by comparing them with competitors in each business line.
Corporate IT remains one center of cloud computing, but more technology workloads are coming under the domain of business line managers.
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While its original daily deals focused on services offered by third parties, its new business line sells products directly from Groupon.
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This provides ammunition to recommend an unpopular or risky decision to the board (expansion into a new business line or geography, or shutting down a plant).
Total group sales were up 4.6% for the year, but in its retail sales divisions - which exclude Halfords' car-servicing business line - they were down 5.3%.
"Citigroup has got back to getting operating leverage where revenue grows faster than expenses in virtually every business line, " said Bob Maneri, of investment management firm Victory Capital Management.
So he rigged a system where clients who dialed his business line were told that while all sales reps were busy, they could record their order and someone would respond shortly.
Given the increasing number and intensity of Apple TV rumors, perhaps 2013 is the year that Apple finally transforms Apple TV from a hobby to a serious business line.
The FSA noted that if any relevant conversation (from voice, SMS to IM) be received or commenced on private communication equipment, they would expect the call to be terminated immediately and the conversation diverted to a recorded business line.
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And this is what happens to every line of business: a company, an organisation, can survive, yes, but only by being willing to change their line of business when technology makes their old one disappear.
Although the absolute increase in leverage was not outsized at a one-turn increase, to 3.7x, investors were wary about the business trend line.
Between 1950 and 1980, when the IPOs finally took off, we had national economies, followed by international business overlapping with the PC wave and globalized business in line with the networked computing wave.
One big change that results from trying to manage a larger organization is a shift from a command and control environment in which the CEO makes key decisions to a delegation of authority to business-line executives.
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One firm, Vanguard, seems to have figured out the way to compete well, although the ETF business comes with extraordinary low fee bottom line business concerns that have to be managed well if being in the ETF business is going to be profitable.
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However, a shift is occurring in the enterprise as business leaders look for ways to generate real value through the use of social technologies to evolve their front-line business operations.
She will provide broad stewardship to our PC marketing efforts while managing the line business functions for Windows.
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Why did George Shaheen, the well-paid head of Andersen Consulting, quit to take a job running a new on-line business?
In December 2006 he moved into the DT Board of Management by taking over responsibility for the company's fixed-line business in Germany.
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CES, with its breadth and industry focus, is a better place to find business partners and line up retail distribution, he says.
His father agreed, and with a partner, they started an on-line business.
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China Telecom has long been looking for an opening to diversify out of the stagnant fixed-line business into the mushrooming mobile sector.
Help the line business people in your organization meet their goals.
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When revenues are down, it is natural to focus on short-term strategies that eliminate costs, yet an internal focus can debilitate your business down the line.
Telecoms firms are in trouble because their fixed-line business is shrinking, and because their cable rivals are beating them in entertainment while getting stronger in telephony.
So I tuned in yesterday to an Intel Webinar with David Buchholz, director of consumerization and John Mahvi, business client product line manager at the company as they discussed the new hardware.
They fulfill real front-line business roles but, in dialogue with us, add that indispensable and invaluable perspective on where the real business value is that needs protecting, as well as what degree of security control imposes an acceptable burden on the business.
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In addition to losing its digital subscriber line business, Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people), a JDS Uniphase (nasdaq: JDSU - news - people) competitor, is losing its chief operating officer, Clarence Chandran .
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