CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, heads of lines of business, all see the writing on the wall.
Mondelez came into existence last September after Kraft split its two lines of business.
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In 2012 each of these three lines of business contributed roughly a third to revenues.
Conflicts also can be found when firms pursue different lines of business through affiliated companies.
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The unapproved lines of business include banking, farming, hotels, restaurants and professional services (like engineering consulting).
Even for the larger players, the market is rewarding certain lines of business and punishing others.
In those largely humdrum lines of business, BD, as the company is known, churns out ever-rising returns.
Success often requires excellence in more than one field of technology and in other lines of business.
Insurers tend to operate in many lines of business, ranging from life and health to non-life insurance.
Cloud computing means that lines of business will be shape their own IT far more than they are now.
This had become wasteful: the lines of business duplicated a lot of work, for instance by developing similar routers.
Finding new lines of business that can contribute seriously to revenue is hard.
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This is true of new lines of business: say, building cars or computers.
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Some of the newer lines of business, such as life insurance, look promising.
Over long dinners they discuss their empires, trade advice and ponder which accidental lines of business they might find next.
The platform is designed to be an extensible fit across multiple systems and lines of business at a financial institution.
They have created new lines of business and ideas spanning the corporation from operations on up to entire market changes.
It's interesting to note that despite the gloomy predictions of analysts, Goldman improved in most lines of business over last year.
Some organizations evolve from high-energy high-growth businesses into more mature stabilized lines of business, with a likewise change in their values.
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"Du Pont has 100 lines of business, and you have lots of opinions about what's confidential and what's not, " Leach says.
But the whole thing makes you wonder why these banks were so quick to drop lines of business that were incredibly profitable.
Gymboree has two lines of business play and music, which is a play group, early-learning classes where the parents go with the children.
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But they also eat up scarce management time and marketing talent on lines of business that are unlikely ever to grow much.
Thus, it is not true that the conflicts of interest related to the alternative lines of business certain consultants pursue are unavoidable.
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Though credit monitoring services are still a tiny part of credit agencies' revenue, they are among these companies' fastest-growing lines of business.
The bottom line: CMOs are uniquely positioned to drive big deals, create new lines of business and large scale revenue generating activities.
Three of HP's four main lines of business--printing, PCs and services--are profitable.
This performance was driven mainly by wallboard pricing gains, higher volumes in all lines of business and lower recycled fiber input costs.
Further, while Apple can still expect 3-5 years of strong growth from its existing lines of business, the future beyond that is unclear.
Banks compete in similar lines of business, lending against commercial or residential property or (in the late 1970s) channelling money to developing nations.
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