Sentences with phrase «challenges the business sector»

I know firsthand the joys and challenges the business sector can bring and the power that history and context have in shaping one's life.

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Despite the general feeling of optimism in the sector, 47 % of CEO's surveyed for the ranking identified the dearth of talent as a major challenge for growing their business.

«While we agree that share repurchase is likely more accretive to 2018 EPS, [Express Scripts»] more pressing challenge is business growth, making deals like eviCore a necessity,» said RBC's Hill, who has a sector perform rating on Express Scripts shares.

Playing to your strengths — or your unique «superpower» — energizes you, says Matthew Thomas, co-founder and executive director of InterSector, a leadership organization promoting collaboration among business, government and nonprofit sectors to solve society's challenges.

Moreover, looking «outside - in» means acknowledging that business does not operate in a vacuum, and that the private sector has a role to play in collaborating on the key global challenges of our time, from climate change to sustainable development.

The sector isn't devoid of challenges: Canada's banks are contending with an ongoing low - interest - rate environment, slower consumer lending growth and weakness in the securities business.

As governments hand over the business of spaceflight to the private sector, what opportunities, challenges, and advancements await?

Despite high - profile deals in the sector, the industrial meat industry faces a rising tide of challenges, in the form of interrelated business, ethical, and environmental concerns.

This trend likely stems from a reaction to challenging economic times when investors prefer businesses that require lower levels of total capital (this is a key characteristic of the software industry compared to others in the IT sector).

«Access to financing can be a challenge for small - and medium - emerging businesses in the life sciences sector,» said Jason Field, President and CEO of LSO.

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

I was able to learn first - hand about the business environment, market entry challenges, and what it takes to be successful in the marketplace, and it helped me to identify opportunities in the BPO sector.

RBC is the only Canadian financial institution with a national team of industry specialists serving clients in the manufacturing, wholesaling, and logistics sectors, helping to meet the challenges of an increasingly global and competitive business environment.

Trust and Security, meanwhile, are the main challenges that FinTech businesses may face as they try to work with Hong Kong's financial services sector.

This will include discussions between financial institutions, academia, technology start - ups and business incubators about challenges and opportunities the sector faces and ways to address them.

A survey of food and drink businesses by leading industry law firm, Roythornes, has revealed the biggest challenges for the sector when it comes to..

«We understand the opportunities and challenges faced by the industry and we are perfectly placed to help businesses in the food and drink sector to realise their growth ambitions.»

The topics covered in the survey included top industry sectors, business impacts, environmental awareness, business spending, introduction of new products, industry challenges and industry opportunities.

Offering a fresh perspective on relevant trends and issues, the Learning Hub's new expanded focus will see speakers form the wider business sector challenge attendees to learn more about transferable skills applicable across all industries.

California Wine Shows Strength in Challenging Economy: The California wine and winegrape sector and allied businesses deliver a total economic contribution of $ 57.6 billion annually to the state's economy and $ 114.1 billion annually to the U.S. economy according to a new report commissioned by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers...

Sally Gras is director of the ARC Dairy Innovation Hub, which works with the Australian dairy manufacturing industry to address some of the major scientific and technical challenges identified as constraints to business growth and productivity in the dairy manufacturing sector.

The Deputy Head of Macroeconomic Research Unit, Ministry of Finance, Dr. Millicent deGraft - Johnson who spoke on the governments short to medium - term development programme said it was aimed at providing opportunities for growth and job creation through the private sector, and had developed concrete reform actions to tackle key challenges to private investment such as ensuring macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability, improving the ease of doing business and enhancing access to affordable and long - term financing and de-risking instruments.

Steve Elliott, Chief Executive of the Chemical Industries Association said «This latest set of results show that the business leaders across our sector are optimistic in what remains a very challenging trading environment.

He had also strengthened his ties with private - sector unions and the business community, valuable connections meant to further deter an unwanted challenge on his home turf.

He also said that the database would contain a body tag, to be fixed to the body of the vehicles for effective monitoring and redistributing of routes for businesses and that about 5,000 commercial buses would be injected into the transport sector to ensure safety and spread of buses and to ease transportation challenges in the state.

Tolkin, 32, a Brooklyn resident who was raised in Jericho, said as a business owner he would aim «to bring private - sector best practices» to City Hall to «address our number one challenge, which is economic inequality.»

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

«President Obama believes, as I do, that the American private sector, working in partnership with the African business community, and African entrepreneurs can help address many of the continent's most pressing challenges, including creating jobs and opportunity for young people across the continent,» said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.

The historical energy utility business model is breaking up, and the challenge for policy makers is to be midwives for the birth of a new energy sector.

«Due to the huge challenges in the industry and Hong Kong business sector as a whole, it is important that everyone maintains a competitive edge and keep abreast of new developments.»

«We will ban secrecy clauses in employment contracts, so that women can challenge unfair pay; the public sector will be required and the business sector asked to report on gender pay,» she said.

It recommended three policy options to strengthen the agriculture sector: improving the quality and effectiveness of public expenditure, the environment for agriculture businesses to promote value addition and fixing challenges in the cocoa sector given the large size of the cocoa economy.

As one of the nation's oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, the Academy convenes leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to address critical challenges facing our global society.

In my role, I work with the school business manager community, and my organisation works both in schools and the independent sector and I do find that school business managers may have challenges but they are becoming more understanding about what needs to be done for their schools when it comes to ICT solutions.

«While principals benefit from the extensive management and leadership development routinely available within the business sector, business leaders are given the opportunity to gain valuable insight into the immense complexity, ambiguity and challenges faced by school principals and the social issues that drive some of the major dysfunction in South African society.»

''... Public university leaders working through the Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative will catalyze action across sectors — state and federal governments, the business community, the K - 12 community, and others to seriously undertake the challenging effort of adequately preparing teachers to teach science and mathematics in the 21st century..»

In this short excerpt, Jim Collins argues that one of the central tenets of the good - to - great approach — making sure that you have the right people on the bus and in the right seats — may be especially relevant in social sectors like education, but that its application may need to respond to challenges (e.g., tenure) that are absent or less common in the world of business.

Early in this century Jim Collins challenged business leaders and those of us in the public sector, including schools, to think about how good is good enough and why some organizations rise to a level of productivity and corresponding public recognition above that of other organizations with seemingly similar or even worse input and other contextual factors of production.

The Disability and Employment Community of Practice is an online learning destination for public workforce system staff and partners, jobseekers, community - based organizations, grantees, and the business sector, who provide services and programs to people with disabilities and / or other challenges to employment.

In March, DOT and the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) hosted a first of its kind two - day summit bringing together private and public sector businesses of all sizes, government agencies, and trade associations to discuss and address challenges facing small businesses is this economy.

With a respectable alternative online lender that specializes in the high risk sector, you can get approved for startup business funding bad credit without challenges.

Before delving deeper into the subject of merchant cash advance, let us understand the various challenges faced by these business owners when trying to borrow funds for their respective business from the conventional lending sectors like the banks.

In the meantime, if your company shows up in the headlines (say, if a new competitor emerges, there's a change in management, the sector it's in suffers a setback), calmly assess how (or if) the news challenges your original investment thesis and threatens the business's long - term prospects.

To delve a little deeper into the challenges facing the industry, Pet Business talked to retailers, distributors, marketing consultants and other pet industry experts about where the pet sector stands on these issues and examines how retailers — and the rest of the industry — can best position themselves for the bumpy ride ahead.

Blanco has extensive travel sector experience, which he plans to use to drive an ambitious programme to respond to the challenges of the UK marketplace, focusing on both business and leisure travellers.

In the light of recent revelations around the National Security Agency PRISM program, a panel of journalists, civil libertarians and human rights experts will present the long history of domestic spying by government agencies, private sector cooperation, and the legal, ethical and business challenges of defending and preserving liberty and constitutionality in cyberspace.

EVAN: Project EVAN (Electric Vehicle ANalysis) was a comparative study undertaken by Pollution Probe with the support of FleetCarma and Fleet Challenge Ontario to establish the business case and environmental justification for fleet managers in both the public and private sectors to incorporate electric vehicle technology into their procurement and vehicle replacement plans.

The report presents some political responses to this challenge and concludes with recommendations for government and business decision makers and regional groups in the tourism sector.

The challenge here is to change the business model of the energy sector.

Against the backdrop of this challenge, on 27 March 2017 the IEA brought together over 100 experts from 30 countries from governments, business, academia and the finance sector to share best practices and policy actions needed to scale up action to achieve SDG7.