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From the Basement to the Boardroom at Valero Energy: The Strategic Imperative in Talent Planning

Valero Energy's ability to grow from a small company to a global mega-corporation over a six-year period is a tremendous story. The transformation of its staffing organization to go from the basement to the boardroom is a "next practices" talent management study to be emulated by every company's HR and...

Tags: Workforce management, boardroom, basement, human capital, staffing, talent, Human Resources, talent management

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Determining the Right Growth Strategy-Organic Vs. Acquisitive

With an extra push from the collapse of previously celebrated serial acquirers such as WorldCom Inc., Conseco Inc. and Tyco International Ltd., the pendulum has rapidly swung to a far more conservative view of M&A as a growth tool than existed just a few years ago. This is especially true...

Tags: Corporate governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Bank of America Corp., boardroom, M&A, board, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, accounting, acquisition, tool

White papers 2004-07-01

A Postcard From Europe: The Real Motivation Behind BPM

To simply talk of improving quality, managing process thinking, changing organizations, or automating existing processes is to miss the real motivation behind Business Process Management BPM. This article discusses why BPM is not truly embedded in the management thinking and the boardrooms. It suggests that for colleagues in the boardroom...

Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Leadership, BPM, boardroom, motivation, business process, leader

White papers 2004-05-01

Boardroom Battles

Although boardroom bust-ups have been happening since companies were first formed, the stresses and strains caused by a global demand forever improving share price performance today produce more internal disputes among directors than in the past. The time to come out fighting is when the battle is over, and reputations...

Tags: boardroom, performance

White papers 2003-01-01

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Infosys Technologies to Announce First Quarter Results on July 11, 2008

BANGALORE, India & FREMONT, Calif. -- Infosys Technologies Limited (NASDAQ: INFY), a world leader in consulting and information technology services, will announce results for its First Quarter ended June 30, 2008 on Friday, July 11, 2008, Indian Standard Time IST (on the night of Thursday, July 10, 2008, US Eastern...

Articles 2008-06-25

Theology That Matters: Ecology, Economy, and God

Theology That Matters: Ecology, Economy, and God. Edited by Darby Kathleen Ray. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006. Pp. ix + 245. Paper, $22.00. The prologue to this very valuable collection of essays worries about progressive theology being limited to shop talk among theological academics. It would be a...

Articles 2008-06-22

Vision Events' Midsize Enterprise Summit UK and Ireland Focuses on Mid-Market IT Growth

Event Takes Place June 17-19 in Barcelona FRAMINGHAM, Mass., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vision Events, a division of Everything Channel formerly CMP Channel, activating technology sales channels, today announced that its Midsize Enterprise Summit UK and Ireland event, focused on growth and how to deliver IT value...

Articles 2008-06-17

E. Noel Harwerth Joins Advisory Board for Boardroom Consultants

NEW YORK -- E. Noel Harwerth, former chief operating officer of Citibank International plc and member of numerous boards of directors for major multinational corporations, has joined the Boardroom Consultants Advisory Board. Harwerth brings extensive experience in corporate governance, international finance and risk management through current non-executive director...

Articles 2008-06-17

'Writing makes me so vulnerable'

Jhumpa Lahiri's tales of the experiences of Bengali immigrants in America have netted her a Pulitzer prize, so why does she still feel like an impostor in the literary world? There are not, I suspect, many authors who prefer never to read reviews and profiles of themselves....

Articles 2008-06-15

ClearOne Receives 2007 Product of the Year Award From Communications Solutions

CHAT 150 Group Speakerphone Honored for Outstanding Innovation SALT LAKE CITY, June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClearOne , the leading provider of high performance audio conferencing solutions, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation's TMC Communications Solutions (http://www.tmcnet.com/comsol) has named the CHAT 150 Group Speakerphone as a recipient of...

Articles 2008-06-13

Company Profile for Brainloop AG

Brainloop AG, headquartered in Munich, is the leading provider of infrastructure and solutions for managing confidential documents. Brainloop's customers reach important risk-management and compliance objectives by deploying Brainloop Secure Dataroom for Dataroom communications, financial reporting, strategic projects and any situation where confidential documents need to be made ubiquitously available to...

Articles 2008-06-13

Lee McQueen tastes victory in 'The Apprentice'

LONDON AFP — Lee McQueen, a 30-year-old recruitment sales manager, was declared the winner of the BBC reality show "The Apprentice". McQueen, the son of a milkman, was the only candidate not to have been questioned in the boardroom through the duration of the show, and was chosen...

Articles 2008-06-12

Lee McQueen nabs victory in 'The Apprentice'

LONDON AFP — Lee McQueen, a 30-year-old recruitment sales manager, was declared the winner of the British version of "The Apprentice" television show on Wednesday evening. McQueen, the son of a milkman, was the only candidate not to have been questioned in the boardroom through the duration of...

Articles 2008-06-11

Rugby's Black outlook

New Zealand rugby is in turmoil. Whether it is Dan Carter leaving for Europe, or the empty seats at last weekend's match, the sport's most passionate followers have fallen out of love with the game. Chris Hewett reports from Auckland Testing time for world's top rugby...

Articles 2008-06-10

Rugby's Black outlook

New Zealand rugby is in turmoil. Whether it is Dan Carter leaving for Europe, or the empty seats at last weekend's match, the sport's most passionate followers have fallen out of love with the game. Chris Hewett reports from Auckland Testing time for world's top rugby...

Articles 2008-06-10

Rugby's Black outlook

New Zealand rugby is in turmoil. Whether it is Dan Carter leaving for Europe, or the empty seats at last weekend's match, the sport's most passionate followers have fallen out of love with the game. Chris Hewett reports from Auckland Testing time for world's top rugby...

Articles 2008-06-10

LIFE AFTER THE APPRENTICE

Sir Alan's rejects hit back As the latest series of the show reaches its climax, Amol Rajan asks former boardroom rejects what happened after they were fired - and what they think of the programme now Lindsay Bogaard Fired: week...

Articles 2008-06-09

League Managers' Association

I STILL can't get over the League Managers' Association snub for Paul Ince in their annual awards. Every division-winning boss was named manager of the year except one. Why could that be? Surely not!? Not when football chairmen tell you there's no racism in English boardrooms...

Articles 2008-06-08

MIKE SCOTT

Host of 'The Time The Place' From working as a floor manager at Granada Television when it started broadcasting in 1956, Mike Scott scaled the heights to work as a director, producer and presenter, before becoming the company's programme controller. He then left the boardroom to appear...

Articles 2008-06-06

Miracle Seeker required to fulfil owner's dream

The stresses of the risk-management business, the cut and thrust of the boardroom and the high-rolling world of telephone-number money are one thing, the thrill of horseracing quite another. Dominic Burke is group chief executive of brand leader Jardine Lloyd Thompson, a company with 30 outposts around the globe, but...

Articles 2008-06-05