Philips is also making it clear that employees are expected to move around in their careers rather than stick with a single geographical region or product area.

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When executives talk about crossing organizational boundaries, they usually mean not one or two boundaries but five or six, such as function, geographical region, process, product and customer.

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The strongest geographical region for luxury goods and services will again be Asia, which is expected to grow by 16 percent, and Latin America, with 10 percent growth predicted.

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Combined with other exams, this test helps determine the geographical region students will work in for the duration of their foundation programme - a two-year training course which forms the bridge between medical school and training for a specialism.

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"The satisfaction rate in this particular region is the greatest of any geographical area, " says Fran Kramer, an agent at Rochester, N.

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Taking into account the dependence of the properties of plants on climate and on other geographical characteristics, the complementariness among countries in the region, between them and other regions, may be exploited usefully.

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Under this new geographical delineation, the term Chianti would be all-encompassing and refer to the entire region in the middle of Tuscany, rather like the umbrella term Bordeaux.

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