Sentences with phrase «business efforts fail»

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Toys R Us recently began liquidating its more than 700 stores in the US after efforts to restructure the business through bankruptcy failed.

While corporate employees can afford to bury themselves in very specific, rigidly segmented responsibilities, small business employees succeed or fail based on the collective efforts of the entire group.

Big - business leaders are fed up with the tactics of conservative Republicans, who instigated a partial closure of the Federal government and engaged in brinksmanship over the debt ceiling in a failed effort to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

More than half of all small - business owners fail to measure the results of their marketing efforts.

Since its failed effort to go upmarket under ex-CEO Johnson in 2012 and 2013, Penney has been fixing its business by bringing back popular in - house brands like St. John's Bay that offer higher profit margins, fixing its e-commerce business, and tweaking its homes goods selection.

Your effort is the one thing you have 100 percent control over and you wouldn't want your business to fail because you didn't give it your all.

But those efforts have failed to catch on, and the company has implemented multiple rounds of layoffs and shuttered its media business.

If our partners do not effectively market and sell our support subscription offerings and our professional services, choose to use greater efforts to market and sell their own products and services or those of our competitors, or fail to meet the needs of our customers, our ability to grow our business and sell our support subscription offerings and our professional services may be harmed.

As many as 85 % of companies that buy CRM software to automate sales efforts don't pick the right tools because they fail to define business objectives or develop processes for meeting objectives.»

Often business owners perceive debt as a last - resort effort for sustaining a failing venture, but even the most healthy ventures will need influxes of cash to keep their momentum strong.

This is after a failed effort to sell its e-commerce business.

After failed earlier efforts, the Hungarians revolted against Hapsburg rule in 1848 (a year when there were revolutions all over Europe), and this time they succeeded, the whole business ending in the «Great Austro «Hungarian Compromise» of 1867.

Meanwhile, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has another panel hearing arguments that the mayor and his closest political assistants deliberately circumvented campaign finance laws in their failed 2014 effort to flip the State Senate to the Democrats, by directing donors (many of whom also had business before the city) to funnel money into upstate party committees instead of into candidates» individual campaign accounts — thus bypassing state contribution caps.

Unless you're a native of a country on the U.S. government's list of terrorist states, you may even find the process a bit more user - friendly than it was before the attacks, because, as part of the government's effort to prove that the terrorists failed to shut down the U.S. economy, INS remains open for business, adjudicating the vast majority of immigration visas as fast, if not faster, than before 11 September.

Businesses in the public and private sectors teach people to recognize phishing, but those efforts often fail or don't work for very long because the training ignores users» habits and instead focuses exclusively on how users process information, says Vishwanath, whose latest research on email habits and phishing outcomes is published in the Journal of Computer - Mediated Communication.

For whatever reason, learning practitioners fail to recognize how their efforts contribute to business results.

Famed business - school thinker Clayton Christensen was splendidly profiled in The New Yorker a few weeks back, which set me to reflecting on his influential meditation on K - 12 education, Disrupting Class, the 2008 book (co-authored with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) that startled the edu - cracy with its bold prediction that half of all high school courses will be delivered online by 2019 and its explanation that technology will produce the «disruptive innovation» in education that previous reform efforts have failed to bring about.

When those efforts failed, largely due to the state's powerful business lobby, the governor issued an executive order to pull the state out of a consortium of states using a Common Core - aligned test.

A report by data - science gurus at Gartner revealed that 70 % of business transformation efforts fail due to lack of staff engagement.

Thus, limiting your training efforts to in - house employees will only fail to align your goals with the rest of your business channels.

70 % of business transformation efforts fail due to lack of engagement.

Now schools labeled as «failing» because of low test scores may become charter schools, in which they could be taken over by business people in an effort to improve test scores.

If my test - market venture failed and I sold just twenty copies, for instance, I would, however, be out the time, effort, and money I put into backing my own publishing business experiment.

It's one thing to enter into a risky business, offer full disclosure to all stakeholders in advance, make a best effort, and fail.

[Bad management's interesting too — if they fail to kill a (great) business, despite best efforts, what's the potential when / if they're gone?!]

According to the opinion, specifically, plaintiffs claim that Fidelity agreed to overly conservative investment guidelines in a failed effort to lock up all wrap coverage so that its competitors would not be able to obtain such coverage, allowing Fidelity to corner the stable value market and generate business for its many other stable value funds even if the MIP suffered.

There are three glaring examples of failed diversification attempts: 1) the optical systems effort that was discontinued after costing the company nearly $ 80MM by some accounts, 2) the Jasomi acquisition, which cost $ 24MM and appears to have little to no contribution to the business, and 3) the PVP development, which has yet to generate significant revenue.

In most of these cases, the businesses were not successful and Groupon was a failed last - ditch effort to stay solvent.

The administrators of King & Wood Mallesons» (KWM) European arm have released details of the sums raised by the break - up and sale of the business in a letter to creditors that also sheds light on the failed efforts to secure a single - firm takeover.

In the big picture, if the overall workflow of a legal team is constrained by something other than effective project management, then LPM initiatives will fail to improve the team's overall business results and the effort will falter.

Paying lip service to business development efforts in an offhand way, commenting on business development infrequently or only as an aside, reminding lawyers that they are «expected» to develop business, but failing to follow through will negate your message.

that the cryptocurrency market «increasingly feels like a bunch of white libertarian bros sitting around hoping to get rich and coming up with half - baked, buzzword - filled business ideas which often fail in an effort to try and do so.»

So instead of blaming Congress, we applaud any effort to limit business method patents (something the Supreme Court failed to do in Bilski)-- and just wish the legislation went further in curbing the often harmful business method patents.

«All in all, the cryptocurrency space increasingly feels like a bunch of white libertarian bros sitting around hoping to get rich and coming up with half - baked, buzzword - filled business ideas which often fail in an effort to try and do so.»

In a world where 70 % of business transformation efforts fail due to lack of engagement, it makes sense that 40 % of Global 1000 organizations use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations.

(According to my business advisor at the Goins group, most of the students fail to find good deals and it takes several Goins Group staff members a full time effort to find homes that qualify their own criteria.)

If you don't make an effort to measure your clients» experience and satisfaction with your services, you'll fail to gather key facts that can help your business grow.