Start-up companies and not-for-profit organizations find advisors particularly useful for gathering innovative ideas, studying market trends, providing competitive information and evaluating new opportunities for growth.
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The job of the people responsible for social strategy is to create the infrastructure for the business so that they can receive market and competitive information in real time and on an ongoing basis.
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But UCITA critics such as 4Cite, or For Competitive Information and Technology Economy, a group of developers and end-users looking to bring an end to UCITA, blast the legislation as an infringement on consumer rights.
Sensitive information inadvertently leaked in documents includes confidential contractual terms, competitive information that rivals would be keen to see and special deals for key customers, said Andrew Pearson, European boss of Workshare which commissioned the research.
Such statements reflect management's current expectations based on currently available operating, financial and competitive information, but are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in or implied by the forward-looking statements.
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America is not only the most competitive country in information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, but is also a frontrunner in agricultural innovation.
"We will not appeal the Court of First Instance's decision to the European Court of Justice and will continue to work closely with the commission and the industry to ensure a flourishing and competitive environment for information technology in Europe and around the world, " Microsoft said in a press release on Monday morning.
Certain content, like sensitive HR information or competitive secrets, will need to be locked down.
So every industry can benefit from web-scale compute power to accelerate turning data into information into competitive advantage.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth has said if Clinton fails again, he will push for a stripped-down alternative that would focus on industries in which the U.S. has a competitive edge, including information technology.
Levels of performance that once ensured that a pupil would qualify for a good job in the past may or may not be sufficient to make him or her competitive in the emerging information-based economy.
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Because it is so accessible, public information offers less competitive advantage than previously.
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Most organizations, however, want to keep expertise information within their boundaries, because having that information is a competitive advantage.
The frantic afternoon presented another example of news organizations being embarrassed by a race to report information under intense competitive pressure.
When that information comes from another major player in the competitive space, the implications of the appropriation of proprietary information become obvious.
Moda is trying to gain a competitive advantage by using the advance information they glean from trunk show sales.
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If nothing else, providing such information could be a competitive advantage for building materials companies catering to those markets.
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Some developers, such as Chesapeake Energy, are supportive of this measure, although others maintain the release of such information is anti-competitive.
The Chief Ministers of Jersey and Guernsey said the islands would be put at competitive disadvantage and are asking for more information.
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Our smart connectivity solutions enable sharing data between devices and applications to empower businesses to make better decisions based on real-time information, and gain a competitive advantage by generating new revenue streams, improving productivity and increasing efficiency and profitability.
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And there's a growing number of companies that now offer to collect huge amounts of data and analyse it as a service, with the promise of helping businesses find nuggets of information that give them a competitive advantage in their markets.
If you want to remain competitive, you simply must have the best information available so that you can develop a suitable strategy.
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The report depicts an increasingly competitive environment, one in which the flow of information, knowledge, personnel and investment has become a two-way traffic.
These places also tend to be inhabited by reasonably well-educated people whose stable incomes makes them less vulnerable to contractions in competitive industries like finance, manufacturing, construction or information.
One way to view this information is that the Leaf will be competitive with the Prius when it goes on sale in select markets in the U.S. in December.
Seeking treble damages, the suit accuses Thomson of using its two CCBN board seats to steal confidential information--including pricing data and competitive analysis--that helped it create a rival service, and of hiring people who had confidentiality agreements with CCBN.
Seeking treble damages, the suit accuses Thomson of using its two seats on CCBN's board to steal confidential information--including pricing data and competitive analysis--that helped it create a rival service and of hiring people who had confidentiality agreements with CCBN.
Producing, disseminating and verifying information is costly, and disclosures can cause competitive harm and proprietary costs.
It concerns breaking a public procurement law by getting a contract (for supplying clocks with information panels to schools in Aquitaine) without a competitive tender.
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