Sentences with phrase «big ask for business»

The introduction of a new apprenticeship levy is a big ask for business, but one that recognises the acute skills shortages industries such as construction will face in the future unless significant investment is made in training.

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When you ask the world's big money makers in typical big brand consumer businesses to discuss how they are making money from big data, though, the message can be about as hard to decipher for the average individual as combing through Internet chatter from Pakistan.

Business Insider has some good things to say about it: «The TOMS office in Los Angeles comes with a big blue slide, motivational signs, and all the wood embellishments you could ask for.

Business Insider reached out to some of the biggest tech firms in America today to ask for their reaction to the FCC's plan.

Amanda MacArthur suggests big ideas for small businesses that want to make their customers feel special, and Shep Hyken wants you to ask yourself: «Is what I'm doing right now going to get the customer to come back the next time he or she needs whatever it is that I sell?»

Summary of the Robin Hood conference: Einhorn, Tepper, Druckenmiller etc [ValueWalk] Profile of Renaissance Technologies» secretive Medallion Fund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWalk]

Premier Foods, one of the UK's biggest manufacturers, has been asking its suppliers for payments to continue doing business with the firm.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

All Fellipe is asking for is for Chelsea to make a similar decision to bring in football people to help accomplish the club's football and business goals of being one of the biggest clubs in the world in terms of revenue and results.

Big Phil --- who added three CSL titles, an AFC Champions League and plenty of zeroes to his bank balance in South China --- said that Ronaldo always asked him about China, adding that it would make sense for the Portuguese captain to consider it because of his wider business interests.

«One of the most important things I have learned over the past year since the start up of Kuku Big Bag is to not be afraid to ask for help and outsource parts of your business to others who are experts.

Over 100 New York City business leaders have written a joint letter to the leaders in Congress, asking that they not cut homeland security funding for the world's biggest terrorist target.

When asked if she thought it passed the smell test for de Blasio to ask people who do business with the city to make big donations, Lerner replied: «I don't think it passes the smell test for anybody to do that, but at the same time, we know that the Real Estate Board of New York is doing exactly that.»

Croxon also asks the Plenty of Fish founder about what led him to sell his business last year, with The Match Group agreeing to buy the site for a massive $ 575m — the dating industry's biggest ever acquisition.

This is a remake of the 1998 French film The Dinner Game, where a business man's boss holds an annual dinner party and asks all of his employees to bring the biggest random idiot as a guest for everyone to laugh at.

Free trials and demo software that you didn't ask for, or as we call it «bloatware,» is big business for Dell and HP, and one way that they're able to keep prices so low.

hmmm — «I say Big Bang...»... so you're a financial analyst with a wife and eight children and you don't mind being unemployed for a few years... or, alternatively, bagging groceries at Kroger (if it's still in business)... you might want to ask the rest of your family for their opinion.

If the BIG 3 get bailouts, again, asking for more than they asked for 10 days ago, and needing another or 2 more in the next few months to keep people working and others who earn a living from off - shoot businesses, how can people buy their products?

And when I contacted the auction's owner to ask for an interview, he was welcoming and spent an entire day with me, talking openly about his personal history, his current business practices and even taking me to meet the types of breeders he respects — breeders whose dogs, when I got to their commercial - scale farms, were running and playing in spaces as big as many suburban backyards and even ballfields, dogs who came up to me to say hello and, in most cases, seemed just as happy and normal and healthy as my own two spoiled mutts at home.

When consumers realized the business was a pet products store, they asked for the big, well - known brands of food that they were buying from other pet specialty or from food and mass retailers.

Ask any business traveler about his or her biggest travel - related gripes and you'll undoubtedly find hotel fees for in - room Internet access near the top of the list.

Really though, when starting a business your creative community is your biggest asset as you can ask them for advice, share clients (if you get too busy, for example) and bounce ideas around if you are stuck!

So those are the two areas of IT training to people to do things for themselves rather than ask others and then the engagement training with clients has been the two big things we've introduced to the business of professional services.

Big Data is turning all of this intuition into predictive modeling... but I believe that you can do it yourself if you reach out to your best clients, ask them about their business, understand why they make the choices they do and how they reach out, or don't reach out, for help.

Part of that process of course means knowing what questions you can't ask in interviews — in fact, you might want to create a job interview script for each interview, especially once you know you'll have a big enough business to hire fairly often.

Ask about the strengths and challenges of the team, why the previous executive is leaving, the three big areas that should be a focus for the business and what the team culture looks like.

There is a big difference between how I act / negotiate as a person asking for business vs as a person representing already acquired business interests, and the difference is substantial, as you might imagine.