Voting Question: Can somebody help me with my homework (make a BCG Matrix for Globe Telecom)?
I am a commerce student and we have homework in Marketing... We need to make a BCG Matrix (Boston Consulting Group) for our adopted company... I chose Globe Telecom, it's a telecommunications company at the Philippines... The BCG matrix (aka B.C.G. analysis, BCG-matrix, Boston Box, Boston Matrix, Boston Consulting Group analysis) is a chart that had been created by Bruce Henderson for the Boston Consulting Group in 1970 to help corporations with analyzing their business units or product lines. This helps the company allocate resources and is used as an analytical tool in brand marketing, product management, strategic management, and portfolio analysis. What to do? How? moreResolved Question: Why is Infragard infiltrating private business with preparations for Martial Law? Orders Shoot to Kill?
http://www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild0308 More than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law. InfraGard is “a child of the FBI,” says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm. To join, each person must be sponsored by “an existing InfraGard member, chapter, or partner organization.” The FBI then vets the applicant. On the application form, prospective members are asked which aspect of the critical infrastructure their organization deals with. These include: agriculture, banking and finance, the chemical industry, defense, energy, food, information and telecommunications, law enforcement, public health, and transportation. "They said when—not if—martial law is declared, it was our responsibility to protect our portion of the infrastructure, and if we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn’t be prosecuted,” Is this going to be the Blackwater for US citizens? whip: Will you say that when you have been deemed a terrorist as defined by the Patriot Act which says that anybody can be deemed a terrorist? rickinno: "InfraGard is a perfectly open and legitmate organization, membership in which confers NO law enforcement powers on its members." Yeah I feel a lot safer knowing that exMcDonalds employees with twitchy fingers will be toting around 9mm's in my place of employment. My friends if you are interested in this story change the link above to..... http://www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild.....take the periods off the end of the link and replace them with 0308. Something funny is going on here I quess Yahoo is being infiltrated too. Spell out the full name rothschild too. rothschild0308 moreResolved Question: Did Americans saw Richard "The Jew" Perle waving the US flag (on Fox News) with Bush & denoucing Islam-China?
By Frida Berrigan Richard Perle is a busy guy these days, what with his long-desired war against Iraq in full swing, plus a lucrative consulting business on the side. As the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Perle is a close adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with an insider’s perspective on the Pentagon, the war in Iraq and the ongoing war on terrorism. As a major investor in a number of defense companies, he stands to reap considerable benefits from war and homeland security contracts. Apparently his dual roles as a major policy adviser to the Pentagon and a business dealmaker can be a bit confusing at times. A few weeks ago, Perle was hired by Global Crossing, the bankrupt telecommunications giant that is trying to sell itself to a Chinese consortium. The Pentagon and FBI are against the sale because it would put the company’s fiber optics network, which is used by the U.S. government, in Chinese hands..." I wonder why it wasn't on Fox News or CNN...= Cows moreResolved Question: Did Americans saw Richard "The Jew" Perle waving the US flag (on Fox News) with Bush & denoucing Islam-China?
By Frida Berrigan Richard Perle is a busy guy these days, what with his long-desired war against Iraq in full swing, plus a lucrative consulting business on the side. As the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Perle is a close adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with an insider’s perspective on the Pentagon, the war in Iraq and the ongoing war on terrorism. As a major investor in a number of defense companies, he stands to reap considerable benefits from war and homeland security contracts. Apparently his dual roles as a major policy adviser to the Pentagon and a business dealmaker can be a bit confusing at times. A few weeks ago, Perle was hired by Global Crossing, the bankrupt telecommunications giant that is trying to sell itself to a Chinese consortium. The Pentagon and FBI are against the sale because it would put the company’s fiber optics network, which is used by the U.S. government, in Chinese hands..." I wonder why it wasn't on Fox News or CNN...= Cows Read the article before you defend Israel!!!!! moreResolved Question: "When Worlds Collide"........................details given below?
In the article “When Worlds Collide” the opinions of three thinkers, Thomas Friedman, John Ralston Saul and Jeffery Sachs, are reviewed. Briefly describe the (3) three different solutions to today’s global inequities offered by Friedman, Saul and Sachs. (Approximate length of answer: 3 Paragraphs) THREE THINKERS OFFER THREE DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS TO TODAY'S GLOBAL INEQUITIES The Live 8 concerts, broadcast internationally to an estimated audience of three billion and dedicated to pressuring western political leaders to tackle poverty in Africa, dominated the headlines earlier this summer. For a while at least, the 10 shows, which relied on a global logistics team using advanced telecommunications technology, and on media outlet co-operation worldwide, appeared to strike a chord, and united citizens far and wide to support an undoubtedly important cause. But after the Pet Shop Boys took the stage in Moscow's Red Square, and after crowds swayed to Neil Young in Barrie, Ont., how much was there left to cheer about? Because, although it's easy to agree that ridding the world of poverty is a worthwhile goal, just how to achieve that goal is clearly a much thornier proposition. Against this backdrop, new books from three global thinkers, dedicated to understanding the world we live in and suggesting ways to create a more equitable planet, can be found on store shelves. Their recommendations, not surprisingly, are drastically different. While Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat: A Bnef History of the Twenty-first Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $38.50), suggests that integration is the key to global prosperity, John Ralston Saul argues nearly the opposite in The Collapse of Globalism (Viking Canada, $36), proclaiming the death of globalism as a good thing and reasserting the need for national power. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty (Penguin, $40) posits that if rich countries would just increase foreign aid budgets, abject poverty would be eliminated. None of these tomes makes for light summer reading, but the most compelling of the three is Friedman's. In The World is Flat, Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times, argues that, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, geopolitical change and technological innovations like PCs, the Internet and workflow software have resulted in an explosion of creative cross-border businesses and an increasingly "flat" playing field for commercial actors worldwide. Friedman's tidy description of the 10 flattening forces lays the groundwork for a provocative analysis of how America (and, by extension, Canada) can thrive in a world led by companies like HealthScribe India, a Bangalore-based firm that relies on satellites and digitization to provide transcription services for doctors working in the United States. While Friedman seems thoroughly convinced that greater trade and economic integration grows the global pie, upping standards of living everywhere and reducing the chances of war, the challenge lies in reconciling the benefits of a streamlined global marketplace with the immediate chaos that factors like outsourcing can cause locally. In Friedman's eyes, the rise of countries like India and China represents the beginning of an era in which the only way westerners can compete is by turning themselves into "untouchables"-people whose jobs cannot be outsourced. Friedman doesn't suggest the transition to a globalized economy-or a globalized society, for that matter-is straightforward. He acknowledges the difficulties of bridging cultural, political and legal divides, and the fact that, at times, the new world order produces absurd results. case-in-point: in 2003, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., an Indian consulting firm, won a multimillion-dollar contract to upgrade the claims-processing system of the unemployment department of the state of Indiana. The deal caused an uproar because, while it saved Indiana taxpayers US$8.1 million, it also cost local jobs. A modern conundrum. But Friedman's deep-seated belief that the forces of globalization are both desirable and unstoppable, and that intertwined economies are the great leveller, is a constant. The book's one weakness stems from Friedman's American bias. Despite his admiration for the flat world, he's adamant the U.S. ought to "dominate the twenty-first century the way it dominated the twentieth." But if collaboration is the key, why should anyone dominate? Meanwhile, in The Collapse ofGlobalism, Saul suggests that the trade liberalization mantra has run its course. He doesn't want privatization, deregulation, tax cuts or shrinking governments; nor, according to him, do the scholars and policy-makers who once sang their praises. Apparently awakened to the reality that market reforms alone do not provide peace and prosperity, the governing orthodoxy, he argues, now embraces details like democratic transition and the rule of law. Saul's key frustration is with people and institutions that advise that, as long as the commercial ties between countries are solid, everything else will fall into place. He goes on at some length about the importance of good governance and proposes a heightened focus on public goods as the only way to ensure justice for all. Moreover, Saul disagrees with the sentiment that borders should take a back seat to commerce. He points to recently reborn nation-states like Ukraine, Bulgaria and Latvia, whose people are reluctant to give an ounce of sovereignty over to a global system, and predicts the re-emergence of powerful nation-states as critical to the maintenance of a fair and balanced world. While Friedman and Saul view the world through very different lenses, they hold in common a tendency to focus on the West and BRIG countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China). In Sachs's The End of Poverty, the emphasis is reversed. Here, the American economist, who is also the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, focuses on the poorest of the poor, laying out a bold, detailed plan for abolishing extreme global poverty by the year 202 5. Outlining the plight of the 1.1 billion people, most of them in Africa and Asia, who get by on, at most, one dollar a day, Sachs argues that if the wealthy world would pony up between US$135 billion and US$195 billion per year in foreign aid over the next 10 years, and continue giving for 10 years after that, abject poverty would be stamped out. He attributes entrenched poverty to geographical bad luck, poor infrastructure and poor health care, and dismisses corruption or culture as possible culprits. Sachs is a fan of free markets, but he argues that market forces alone are not enough to help, say, an isolated village in Kenya grow out of poverty. He suggests the key is investments in agricultural inputs, basic health, education, power, transportation, safe drinking water and telecommunications. Sachs's experience turning around stumbling economies is impressive. He's not shy about it, either-the first half of the book is an autobiography of sorts, detailing his accomplishments dictating monetary policy and fiscal restraint everywhere from Bolivia to China. Reading Sachs's carefully crafted plans, complete with diagrams and budgets, one wants to have faith in the theory-that if only our political leaders would fork over the cash, poverty could be eradicated. Yet it's hard to believe; the technocratic approach seems at odds with messy reality. Each author calls upon a different set of characters to prove his point. Friedman relies heavily on interviews with businessmen whose cross-border ventures are booming; Saul illustrates his perspective with historical examples and comments from politicians and World Bank types. Sachs, on the other hand, invokes personal anecdotes, academic studies, maps and photographs for impact. Ultimately, it doesn't seem like one book has nailed it. Instead, while addressing the common theme of global inequity, each volume shines a spotlight on a different corner of the complex global landscape. In this case, it's only by considering each approach that a full-colour portrait of our times is revealed, and the need to embrace a variety of strategies in order to set the best course exposed. moreBusiness Telecommunications Consulting U Article
Let's cover Paterson and the people's business
The fellow grumbled over his coffee at our favorite shop the other day. He didn't like what he was reading on the front page of The Post-Standard.
"Tell your boss," he shouted at me, "to quit running these stories. We need to move on to serious business."
He spoke about the story on the front page about David Paterson, our new governor of New York, having bad eyesight. My companion argued being legally blind doesn't affect his ability to think and govern.
He's right.
The chap added he doesn't need to see any more stories about David's marriage and infidelities, either. "That's a private matter," he said, lowering his volume a bit.
Right again.
Let the governor and his helpers have at the state's economy, the pending budget and other matters. more
Business news in brief
Here is a selection of business news tidbits from this week's paper and possibly some news items that didn't make it into the paper.
BBB seeks ethics awards nomineesThe Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is looking for a few great Wisconsin companies and charities to recognize for outstanding business ethics and integrity.The BBB is seeking nominations for the 2008 Torch Awards for Business Ethics and Integrity, which honor businesses and charities statewide that have demonstrated high ethical standards and exemplify excellence in business practices.This year's winners will be announced at a luncheon ceremony on Oct. 15 at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee. There is no cost to apply, and businesses do not have to be a BBB member to apply. The application deadline is July 14.Awards are given in several categories, depending on the businesses' number of employees.Last year's winners were: The Zoological Society of Milwaukee, Barb's Interior Design (Cedarburg), Gardan (Hortonville), J.P. more
Knox commissioners admit discussing county business in private
Four Knox County commissioners said they've recently discussed county business in private, an apparent violation of the state's Open Meetings Act, also known as the Sunshine Law.
County law director John Owings questioned the commissioners Monday night to get a six-month update on a judge's injunction after a jury last fall convicted 11 commissioners of violating the Open Meetings Act.
Current Commissioners Greg "Lumpy" Lambert, Paul Pinkston, Bob Rountree and Victoria DeFreese said they had private discussions on issues related to county business.
A fifth commissioner who's also the former chairman, Scott Moore, declined to answer.
The rest of the 15 commissioners responded that they had not discussed in private anything relating to county business. more
Women's Business Centers offer advice and assistance to entrepreneurs
Jamie Friedrich wants to start a preschool near her home in downtown Kansas City.</p><p>Friedrich, 30, and her business partner almost bought an existing business last year. What stopped them was sound financial advice from the <strong>Missouri Women's Business Center </strong>in Kansas City.</p><p>“They kept us from buying an overpriced business,” Friedrich said. “The owner had an unrealistic idea about the value of the property.”</p><p>Three years ago, Deneen Slack and her husband bought <strong>Consolidated Printing Supplies </strong>in Overland Park. Suddenly, Slack, who is president of the company, found she had adjustments to make in shifting from working as an employee to being a business owner.</p><p>Slack turned to the <strong>Kansas Women's Business Center </strong>in Lenexa. more
16 dead as Midwesterners eye rising rivers; snow cancels hundreds of flights at Oâ€Hare
FENTON, Mo. (AP) — Flood-weary Midwesterners fought Friday to save their homes and businesses from rivers spilling over their banks after rainstorms blamed for at least 16 deaths moved through the region.Thousands of people from Arkansas through Ohio were staying in shelters or with relatives as flood waters lapped against their homes.Major Byron Medloch of the Salvation Army said Friday that 1,000 people displaced by the Meramec River in eastern Missouri were housed in shelters. Another 1,000 were in shelters near Poplar Bluff in far southeast Missouri, where the surging Black River breached several levees."People are tired," Medloch said. "Tired of fighting and tired of waiting. They’re just frustrated because they can’t get back into their homes."
To the north, a fresh snowstorm blew through Minnesota and Wisconsin and into the Chicago area, and forecasters said the storm could leave as much as 9 inches of heavy snow in the region. moreBusiness Telecommunications Consulting U
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With a CNBC clock counting down the minutes until President-elect Barack Obama announced his economic team in Chicago, President Bush appeared outside the Treasury Department on Monday morning with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to show they are ...
Read moreBush consulting Obama on bailouts - Politico.com
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama isn't the only one assembling his management team under intense scrutiny of numerous spectators. For Ben Verwaayen, Alcatel-Lucent's new CEO, the crowd may not be quite as large nor the stakes quite as high, but his ...
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Gov. Ted Strickland's favorite four-letter word is "jobs." To bring more of them to Ohio, Strickland wants to brighten a business climate that corporate leaders say is too costly, over-regulated and short on skilled workers in key occupations. The ...
Read moreOhio's job outlook: the good and the bad - Cleveland Plain Dealer Blog
Stakeholders in the Customer Service and Contact Centre operations in Africa have identified inadequate infrastructure and poor manpower development as the biggest challenges impeding world class customer service through technology in Nigeria ...
Read morePoor technology, manpower, bane of customer service - Businessday Online
Sounds kind of dirty, right? Actually, it's because of a clean visual that technical analysts use this term. Technical analysts like charts (hence their nickname of "chartists"), and they like to give certain patterns they see neat little names. Such ...
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Attention Business/Financial Editors: Medical Intelligence announces 2008 third quarter results Revenues increased from $31,000 in Q2 to $395,000 in Q3 QUEBEC CITY, Nov. 27 /CNW/ - Medical Intelligence Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: MIZ), a ...
Read moreMedical Intelligence announces 2008 third quarter results - CNW Group
The United States through its history has been the world's leading innovator thanks to a few hobbyists tinkering in their garages. If the U.S. wants to maintain its dominance in the world market, some argue, its policies should encourage innovation ...
Read morePolitics and Law - CNET News
Timothy Geithner has already been steeped in the bailout efforts made by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and the Bush Administration. Still, Summers has a reputation as a masterful economist and, as a protégé of Robert Rubin, his predecessor as ...
Read moreEconomic advisers are heavyweight quantities - Politico.com
3Q08 Financial and Operating Highlights -- Net operating revenues reached $2,843 million, an increase of 45.3% versus 3Q07. -- OIBDA reached $1,388 million, an increase of 36.7% versus 3Q07. -- OIBDA margin improved quarter-on-quarter to 48.8 ...
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