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Global DataGuard and Prism Microsystems to Host Webinar on Managed Security...
MarketWatch (press release)
ADDISON, Texas, Feb 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Global DataGuard(R) and EventTracker by Prism Microsystems(R) are hosting an informative webinar and live demonstration on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). The webinar, 'Top 5 Reports ...
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Money Guru | Separate regulation needed for retail, HNI wealth management
Livemint
Tell us how the business has grown in terms of assets undermanagement (AUM) and the number of clients. Sutapa Banerjee, CEO, (private wealth business) Ambit Capital Pvt. Ltd That's right, I joined two-and-a-half years back and have set up the private ...
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Former Longs Drug Stores CEO Steve Roath Joins Altierre's Board of Directors
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
... CEO Steve Roath has joined the company's board of directors. “In addition to his wealth of contacts, we will benefit tremendously from Steve's insider perspective into the complexities of retail management, both at the store and the chain level.
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Reliance Integrated Solutions LLC to Acquire Savings Institute Bank and Trust ...
MarketWatch (press release)
14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Reliance Integrated Solutions LLC (RIS), a wholly-owned institutional wealth management services subsidiary of Reliance Financial Corporation, and Savings Institute Bank and TrustCompany (SIBT) announced today that ...
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Planisware Achieves Double Digit Growth in 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Planisware(TM) -- the leading global provider of world-class Project & Product PortfolioManagement solutions for new product development (NPD) organizations -- recently announced continued business ...
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First Solar-to-Vestas Wind Profit Crash Deters New CEOs: Energy
BusinessWeek
At Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the largest turbine maker, the chairman and finance director are leaving after the company cut sales forecasts twice in three months and CEO Ditlev Engel said his own job is safe. “It's becoming significantly more difficult ...
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Where's the Boss? Trapped in a Meeting
Wall Street Journal (India)
The more direct reports a CEO had correlated with more, and longer, internal meetings, the researchers found. Rather than foisting off responsibilities to other managers, CEOs with more direct reports may be more hands-on and involved in internal ...
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Wesley Bedrosian
The Atlantic
Nonetheless, the CEO kept talking about “our future” as if thecompany had one, other than liquidation. The equity analysts on the call didn't seem fazed; apparently, that's how companies in these situations usually behave. Managementand workers seem ...
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The Atlantic
BUSINESS: Sandals employs 26 trainee managers
Go Jamaica
The trainee managers, who hail from Jamaica, St. Lucia, Antigua and the Bahamas, are currently undergoing a two-week orientation with senior SRI directors, to sensitise them to the company's goals, objectives, service standards as well as introduce ...
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Irish Life chooses Tableau to deliver business intelligence dashboards
Siliconrepublic.com
Irish Life has invested in a business intelligence tool formanagers to create interactive graphical data about its financial products. The rollout is part of the pensions and life assurance provider's company-wide businessintelligence strategy.
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Siliconrepublic.com
Report: Entrepreneurism Hits Record Low for Displaced Business Leaders
IndustryWeek
A tight credit market combined with soft consumer demand created a negative environment for would-be entrepreneurs, said John Challenger, the firm's CEO. In the last six months of 2011, an average of 3.2% of joblessmanagers and executives started ...
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The lessons big companies can learn from startups
Globe and Mail
And if the manager who makes that study turns out to be wrong, he tries to “reinvent reality” to make sure that he does not take the blame for a bad prediction. Whereas a startup does frugal experiments to prove its business model in stages so it can ...
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Globe and Mail
AWT Launches GlobalView Fleet Management 2.0, Offers Port Forecasts, Ice ...
Sacramento Bee
14, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Weather Technology, Inc. (AWT), today announced the release of GlobalView™ 2.0, a new version of thecompany's fleet management system featuring port forecasts, tide data, tools for easy customization and direct ...
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Johnson Controls CEO discusses company's future
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
When North American automotive sales began to slip in early 2008,company managers gathered to prepare a restructuring that would lead to the shutdown of 30 factories worldwide and elimination of 16000 jobs. The recession was much deeper and longer ...
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Merrimak Capital Reports 50 Percent Spike in New Business Volume
Lessors Network (press release)
14, 2012,--Merrimak Capital Company President and CEO Mary Kariotis reported that the company's new business volume has increased more than 50 percent since last year. The dramatic spike in business is primarily a result of the lessor's heightened ...
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GHX Acquires Beep N Track to Accelerate Delivery of Healthcare Industry's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Curtis Dudley, vice president of Integrated Business Solutions at ROi, said, "GHX has a key role to play in helping providers share information, making it available to our suppliers to facilitate replenishment. I wholeheartedly support creation of a ...
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Hospira announces quality, operations hires on eve of annual earnings call
Crain's Chicago Business
Two weeks ago, the company announced the hiring of former Amgen Inc. executive Richard Davies as senior vice president and chief commercial officer. Monday's hirings appear to be another step in the remaking of Hospira's senior management team by Mr.
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'Big Data' Prep: 5 Things IT Should Do Now
PCWorld
"This is an opportunity to walk into the CEO's office and say, 'I can change this business and provide knowledge at your fingertips in a matter of seconds for a price I couldn't touch five years ago,' " says Eric Williams, CIO at Catalina Marketing.
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Small Business Owners Support President's Budget on Taxes, Infrastructure
CSRwire.com (press release)
13 /CSRwire/ - Small business owners favor key provisions of thePresident's 2013 budget designed to support domestic job creation, modernize infrastructure and raise needed revenue with fairer taxes. These include increasing taxes on the wealthy, ...
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Your Office Coach: Make sure contributions are noticed
Kansas City Star
By MARIE G. MCINTYRE QUESTION: I have become very disillusioned with my manager. "Brian" and I worked well together as peers for several years, collaborating on a variety of successful projects, until a new CEO promoted me and demoted him.
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CEO Roundtable Preps Advanced
AllAfrica.com
Mr Sibanda said Business Council of Zimbabwe president Mr David Govere would lead captains of industry at the conference. Further, an as yet to be named high profile representative is also expected from the United Nations Development Programme.
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Six key skills new IT graduates are lacking
ComputerworldUK
His list of open positions included an EDI programmer, a risk managementprogrammer, a CRM programmer, a business analyst and an assistant ITmanager. Wikileaks - fearless whistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latest ...
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AlliedBarton Security Services Earns Seventh Consecutive Training Magazine Top ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... AlliedBarton Chief People Officer and Senior Vice President of Human Capital Management. "This award validates our position as the most honored security officer services company and this seventh consecutive win pays tribute to our network or ...
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ServiceMax Posts Record 185 Percent Growth in FY 2011, Exceptional Performance...
MarketWatch (press release)
A strong shift to collaborative and mobile cloud-based enterprise applications and the increasing importance of field service as a keybusiness driver bolstered ServiceMax's impressive growth. "It was an amazing year across the board for ServiceMax.
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Why Buffett is cold on gold
Sydney Morning Herald
The numbers are useful, but a key highlight for most readers is Berkshire chairman and CEO Warren Buffett's letter to shareholders. For the uninitiated, this isn't your usual public company CEO spiel. For too many (but not all) listed companies, ...
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Why we pick bad leaders, and how to spot the good ones
CNN
But the CEOs were then quick to admit that this task is much easier said than done. Time and again externally recruited "stars," as well as freshly promoted general managers from within their company's ranks, failed to live up to lofty expectations.
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IDC CIO summit to address cloud computing
ITP.net
Jyoti Lalchandani, vice president and managing director of IDC Middle East, Africa, and Turkey says that the gradual transition towards the cloud will certainly have a significant impact in the growth of the region's IT expenditure, as organisations ...
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ITP.net
Bombardier touches down in GP
Alberta Daily Herald Tribune
By GRAEME BRUCE The CEO of Bombardier Recreational Product Inc. (BRP), makers of the Ski-Doo and Sea-Doo, touched down in Grande Prairie on his private jet last week to meet with the managers of Stojan's Power Sports & Marine. José Boisjoli's met with ...
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UC4 buys Ventum for development ops tools
Computerworld
By Joab Jackson IDG News Service - In a move to expand its IT automation software to take on development management as well, UC4 Software has purchased Austrian software company Ventum and integrated thecompany's technologies into its own software ...
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inthinc Tailors Leading Telematics Solution to Mining Industry
MarketWatch (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, Feb 14, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- inthinc Technology Solutions Inc., a global telematics company centered on fleet management and driver safety solutions, is the preferred telematics provider for the largest Mining ...
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Letting the tale wag the dog
The Economist
The CEO of “Alpha” resigned after a small group that he set up to carry out a wide-ranging business analysis quickly became a focus of distrust. “Beta” hired a series of consultants to help create a new organisational structure, only to face internal ...
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The Economist
3 Things You Should Know About Small Business: Feb. 14
TheStreet.com
Over the last two quarters of 2011, an average of just 3.2% of jobless managers and executives started their own business, roughly the same as the first two quarters of 2011, when 3.3% of job seekers started firms -- but half the start-up activity pace...
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TheStreet.com
Alpha Real Property Investment Advisors Choose SatuitCRM
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
After reviewing the various offerings, Alpha selected Satuit for its technology combined with the company's background and knowledge of the investment management industry. According to Russell Jarvis, Sales & Marketing Director for Alpha, ...
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6 key skills new IT grads are lacking
PC Advisor
His list of open positions included an EDI programmer, a risk managementprogrammer, a CRM programmer, a business analyst and an assistant ITmanager. Taffet says he doubts any new college grad could easily fill any of those roles.
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BYOD: Bring your own device could spell end for work PC
BBC News
A survey covering 17 countries by business technologycompany Avanade found that 88% of executives said employees were using their own personal computing technologies for business purposes. Absolute Software found that 64% of IT managers surveyed ...
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BBC News
Spartan Motors Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Spartan Motors will host a conference call for analysts and portfoliomanagers at 10 am ET today to discuss these results and currentbusiness trends. To listen to a live webcast of the call, please visit www.spartanmotors.com , click on "Shareholders ...
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Many Advisors Face March 30 Deadline
Financial Advisor Magazine
“The SEC wants more transparency related to the private fund managers,” says Janaya Moscony, president and CEO of SEC3, a Philadelphia-based financial consulting firm, “so, there is going to be more information required from these types of managers ...
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Stryker CEO's surprise exit sends shares lower
(Reuters) - The surprise departure of Stryker Corp's chief executive officer, amid an ... the company," said David Heupel, portfolio manager at Thrivent Investment ... analyst Julie Stralow said she was surprised and disappointed by the news.
www.reuters.com/.../us-stryker-idUSTRE81821Y20120209
Annaly Capital Management's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results ...
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY). Q4 2011 Earnings Call. February 8, 2012 9:00 am ET. Executives. Michael A. J. Farrell – Chairman,President and Chief ...
money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?date...feed...
News Corp. Names Lex Fenwick CEO of Dow Jones - Citybizlist ...
NEW YORK--News Corporation named Lex Fenwi. ... NEW YORK--NewsCorporation named Lex Fenwick Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones &Company. ... He later became manager of Bloomberg operations in Europe, the Middle East ...
newyork.citybizlist.com/.../News-Corporation-Names-Lex-Fen...
TPW management board names new CEO | Vermont Business ...
The Board of Directors of TPW MANAGEMENT LLC, a leading resort property and community management Company, announced the promotion of Paul W.
www.vermontbiz.com/.../tpw-management-board-names-new-...
CEO Announces Decision to Step Down – News & Events - Irish ...
Irish Management Institute logo ... CEO Announces Decision to Step Down ... The recent graduation of the first class from the UCC-IMI Alliance makes this an ...
www.imi.ie/news-and.../ceo-announces-decision-to-step-down/
Ackman takes CEO plan to CP shareholders - Business - CBC News
CBC News Business. Major StoriesIn The News ... the entirety of Green's helm as CEO, and he wants to bring in new management to turn thecompany around.
www.cbc.ca/news/.../02/.../pershing-square-cp-roadshow.html
UK: Anglia Business Solutions announce new group CEO
Distribution company or manager for Middle East and North Africa · ChiefExecutive Officer - South ... UK: Anglia Business Solutions announcenew group CEO ...
www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=92536
Deutsche Boerse board member wants CEO out: paper | Reuters
"The merger tied up management capacity for more than a year. In the past couple of years, ... Related Quotes and News. Company. Price. Related News ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-deutscheboerse-ceo-idUSTRE8130BX
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