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- a part of an organization that operates as a distinct function, department, division, or stand-alone business. Business units are usually treated as a separate profit center within the overall, owning...
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- Is the Chief Strategy Officer Necessary?
- Who sets strategy at your firm? Is it someone's specific role, or everyone's? McKinsey assembled six chief strategy officers at large corporations and had them talk about what exactly they do. The first comment immediately noted that the "true chief strategist" is in fact...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Planar Systems Inc. F2Q09 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Jim Ricchiuti - Needham & Company. Jim Ricchiuti - Needham & Company I was wondering if you could maybe elaborate on which of your vertical market segments you are seeing some improvement, Gerry. Gerry Perkel Well,...
- Earnings calls 2009-05-05
- Unisys Corporation (UIS) Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you, Operator instructions. Your first question is coming from Jason Kupferberg - UBS. Jason Kupferberg – UBS I wanted to ask a question about the top line efforts and I can certainly appreciate how the approach to cost and the execution there is differing...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-28
- Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. F2Q08 (Qtr. End 12/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session[Operator instruction] Our first question comes from Tore Svanberg from Thomas Weisel Partners. Tore Svanberg - Thomas Weisel Partners Yes. Just a couple of questions, first of all you talked a little bit about R&D efficiencies this year. I'm just wondering, how different is that from what you've...
- Earnings calls 2008-01-31
- Chase Capital Provides Recapitalization Financing To Benefit Consulting Firm
- An executive compensation and benefit consulting services firm has been a JPMorgan client since 1998. The client announced an agreement to be acquired by one of the world's largest insurance firms. In conjunction with the acquisition, the purchaser intended to spin off several business units to a third party. The...
- Case studies 2007-09-25
- Getting It Together With Shared Services: A shared Services Center Can Reduce Costs
- For the past quarter-century, companies of every shape and size have been cashing in on shared services - shifting common administrative activities from individual business units to a centralized operation to reduce costs and improve service quality. A Shared Services Organization SSO can improve overall efficiency and control while giving...
- White papers 2008-12-02
- People Power: Going Global With Talent Management
- BOE's Big Oil Enterprises Human Resource HR leaders began to recognize that the company's decentralized approach to talent management, structured in a manner that required each business unit to do its own recruiting, training, performance management, and succession planning, was becoming increasingly outdated. Because both the "Upstream" production and "Downstream"...
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Case Study: Finance Transformation In Telecom - Spreadsheets Begone
- Corporate executives at this large telecom company wanted more detailed visibility into the drivers of each business unit’s financial performance. But a slow, spreadsheet-based budgeting, planning and forecasting process was clouding the line of sight. How could the company improve the transparency and timeliness of financial planning information â€" and...
- White papers 2008-06-25
- Where Value Hides: Knowing Your Strategic Market Position Or, When Wanting To Be Number One Or Two
- Increase the overall Strategic Market Position for your business unit or company and you will increase your ability to achieve higher profitability and growth, and unlock hidden value. On the other hand, organizations that fail to recognize and act on their Strategic Market Position may be at risk. First, however,...
- White papers 2007-03-01
- The Corporate Scorecard: Making the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
- The Balanced Scorecard provides a powerful framework for individual business units to describe and implement their strategies. A strategy-focused organization, however, requires more than each business unit managing with its own Balanced Scorecard. The reason is that most organizations consist of many different business units as well as shared service...
- White papers
- Case Study: Telecom Client Has Success With Operations & Systems
- A large telecommunications corporation that was reorganized into independent business units with individual profit and loss responsibility wanted to design and implement a real estate information system that will serve both the corporate and business unit requirements in an integrated fashion. Deloitte & Touche created an integrated database of both...
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- Pfizer, Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Our first question, David Reisinger, Morgan Stanley. David Reisinger - Morgan Stanley Thanks, very much. I guess I have two questions, the first is for Jeff and the second is for Frank and both of these are kind of high level; Jeff, can you please...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-20
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- Dow Forms Business Unit.
- Dow has formed the Custom & Fine Chemicals business unit, which consolidates many of the assets, resources and technologies of recent acquisitions into a separate global business unit. George Blitz has ... Dow has formed the Custom & Fine Chemicals business unit, which consolidates...
- Research articles 2001-08-01
- Delta appoints e-Business unit senior executives; New e-Business unit leaders to direct airline`s business-to-consumer, business-to-business, business-to-employee strategies.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-22 November 2000-DELTA AIR LINES: Delta appoints e-Business unit senior executives; New e-Business unit leaders to direct airline`s business-to-consumer, business-to-business, business-to-employee strategies C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21112000 ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines` e-Business unit announced today the...
- Research articles 2000-11-22
- BigBand closes deal for ADC unit.(Broadband Week)(purchasing of ADC Telecommunications Inc's IP Cable Business unit)(Brief Article)
- REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. -- BigBand Networks Inc. has closed the deal to purchase ADC Telecommunications Inc'.S IP Cable Business unit. The unit makes the Cuda cable-modem terminal system and FastFlow broadband provisioning manager. REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. -- BigBand Networks Inc. has closed...
- Research articles 2004-07-05
- InFocus Appoints New Senior Vice President and General Manager of Americas Business Unit
- DVD News 12-22-2003 InFocus Appoints New Senior Vice President and General Manager of Americas Business Unit DVD NEWS-22 December 2003-InFocus Appoints New Senior Vice President and General Manager of Americas Business Unit C1999- 2003 DVD Ne DVD News ...
- Research articles 2003-12-22
- Warner Home Video Announces Executive Restructure and New Business Unit
- DVD News 01-09-2004 Warner Home Video Announces Executive Restructure and New Business Unit DVD NEWS-9 January 2004-Warner Home Video Announces Executive Restructure and New Business Unit C1999-2004 DVD News. Distributed for AM Newswire Inc v DVD News ...
- Research articles 2004-01-09
- Nissan LCV Business Unit exceeds target one year ahead of commitment and starts independent operations in the Middle East.
- May 20--In a recent visit to the GCC, Andy Palmer, Nissan's vice-president and head of the company's light commercial vehicle business unit (LCV-BU), announced details of the LCV new strategy and the new LCV Middle East Business Unit. Palmer revealed May 20--In a recent visit to...
- Research articles 2007-05-20
- Wireless Matrix Divests Telemetry Business Unit
- Wireless News 05-02-2005 Wireless Matrix Divests Telemetry Business Unit WIRELESS NEWS-May 2, 2005-Wireless Matrix Divests Telemetry Business Unit C2005 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Wireless Matrix on Monday announced the divestiture of its Telemetry Business Unit to Calgary-based...
- Research articles 2005-05-02
- Sony Corporation of America and Sony Electronics Inc. have created a new business unit.(Brief Article)
- Sony Corporation of America and Sony Electronics Inc. have created a new business unit, the Broadband Services Company, that will aim to exploit Sony content and technology to create new service businesses. The unit will be headed by Emily Susskind Sony Corporation of America...
- Research articles 2000-02-28
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