Sentences with phrase «points of the development of»

It's time to zero in on key points of the development of company culture such as performance reviews and employee anniversaries, which is when you can address employee concerns before they become big problems.

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«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

Barry Pellas, who oversees tech strategy and the development of strategic assets for digital transformation firm PointSource, points out that Amazon certainly could be using facial recognition to individually identify customers in its new high - tech store in Seattle, but does not.

The combined ratio of 97.5 % improved 2.1 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (1.7 points) and a benefit (0.8 points) from catastrophe losses, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.4 points).

The combined ratio of 74.7 % improved 4.7 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (3.4 points), a lower underlying combined ratio (1.2 points) and lower catastrophe losses (0.1 points).

The team is the foundation of any successful startup, the fixed point from which all ideas and developments originate.

The combined ratio of 95.5 % decreased 0.5 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (1.0 point), as well as a benefit (0.2 points) from catastrophes, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.7 points).

The combined ratio of 97.5 % increased 1.1 points due to a higher underlying combined ratio (1.1 points) and higher catastrophe losses (0.1 points), partially offset by higher net favorable prior year reserve development (0.1 points).

New developments would allow connected cars to link up with smart city infrastructure to create an entirely different ecosystem for the driver, who is simply used to the traditional way of getting from Point A to Point B.

The development of the Barcelona Principles is a good starting point, but traditional PR must become more data focused to yield better results and compete against other marketing disciplines.

And three, taking me to ride electric dirt bikes at Pigeon Point is important because it demonstrates a vital part of the company's product development history.

Jonathan Mak, founder of Toronto - based Queasy Games, which currently has a development deal with Sony, says he doesn't see the point.

There's no market at this point,» said Tom Frencel, the Chief Executive of Little Guy Games, which put development of a Glass game on hold this year and is looking at other platforms, including the Facebook Inc - owned virtual - reality goggles Oculus Rift.

As you grow, however, there will be a point when the cash flow gets complicated and is often overlooked in favor of focusing on sales, business development and other tasks.

But the developments on Monday make it clear that, as this and the other threads surrounding the multiple investigations into Trump and his associates continues, the boundaries of legal precedent are being tested in ways unlike any other point in modern history.

Lastly — at a panel in the afternoon Tristan Walker, Director of Business Development for FourSquare, Marci Weisler of Tipping Point Partners, Daniel Kim founder of Red Mango and Inc. blogger Howard Greenstein tackled the hotly controversial topic of leveraging daily deal sites and tapping into local marketing.

The best CEOs are also great salespeople who could sell shoes to a snake, but that may not be their highest and best use for their business after a certain point of development.

An independent panel has endorsed the proposed development of a liquefied natural gas precinct at James Price Point near Broome, but the recommendation may have little impact as project developers led by Woodside Petroleum have shifted their focus to floating LNG developments.

-- Mark Schulze, VP of business development of First Data and co-founder of Clover, maker of an all - in - one point of sale terminal that was acquired by First Data in 2013 and that has sold more than 750,000 devices and processes approximately $ 50 billion in annual sales

As Manaus shows off its state - of - the - art developments, it has also become a focal point for the controversy surrounding the World Cup.

A freer trade in agricultural products also engenders innovation and the development of new markets: Turner points to the way Regina - based AGT Food and Ingredients (formerly Alliance Grain Traders) has carved out new and expanding niches for Canadian - grown lentils.

According to Jamie Perry, vice president of brand and product development for Jet Blue, the airline made the short film a comedy because you can't preach to people but you can be irreverent and humorous to get the same point across.

He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

In one of my recent articles titled, 5 strategies for Franchise Leadership Development, I pointed out the steps that can be implemented to develop the most effective leadership skills for a franchise organization.

What some experts are doing is putting up a straw man, pointing to those extreme cases in which some people let the development of the business plan become an end in itself — something that gets in the way of business rather than helping to optimize it.

As Metzger points out, the most easily and thoroughly automated industries on Earth today are also those most necessary for space development — the manufacturing of electronics, transportation equipment, and machinery.

Hearts and souls are poured into product development and refinement, but every market has its pain points and this is some of the most valuable information an entrepreneur can extract from a prospect.

«The process of execution includes real customer development, changing your product into what people actually want and tons of other hard work and learning moments that an idea - stealer wouldn't have in his or her arsenal,» points out entrepreneur Brent Goldstein.

«In the past, you'd buy a flight from point A to point B, but The Explorer wants to make decisions on the go,» Todd Arthur, Vice President of sales and market development for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, told CNBC.

While some point to Saleforce's ownership of two different development environments as a point of confusion, it may actually end up being an advantage.

Most websites with as much traffic as Plenty of Fish would have by this point raised millions of dollars from venture capitalists, hired dozens of engineers and business - development types, and figured out a way to keep someone as unconventional as Markus Frind from making any major decisions.

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

Like the one Jinwoong's Scott Reeves points to as a current favorite, a simple project - management tool he calls a «product - development system,» a calendar that enables managers to keep better track of key deadlines as they create multiple new products.

Today, there are a fair number of gene - silencing drugs in late - stage development and dozens of companies working in the space — and it feels like we could be close to a tipping point.

This point person would also need to keep the social media firm updated on new developments like the introduction of a new product or service or other related business news.

As scholars who study gender and humor have pointed out, women's humor ruffles feathers, with «gender stereotypes» hindering «the development and recognition of women's humor.»

The goal is to have all of our efforts align, as he is focused on processing our work from an operational stand point, while I am mainly focused on new business development.»

He pointed to a string of Coinbase's top - level hires as evidence of the trend: Asiff Hirji, formerly of Hewlett Packard and TD Ameritrade, as chief operations officer; LinkedIn's Emilie Choi as vice president of corporate and business development; Twitter's Tina Bhatnagar as vice president of operations and technology; and Facebook's Rachael Horwitz as vice president of communications, to name a few.

As he points out, when a review of the city finances under Mayor David Miller called for improved economic development, Toronto created Build Toronto and Invest Toronto, arms - lengths organizations with a «mandate from the mayor and council... that the city is indeed open for business.»

«This year we are hiring hundreds of employees for development and deep technology positions,» says Dorit Dor, vice president of product at Check Point, a prominent IT security firm.

Eagle's Sassouni pointed out that since the big drug companies are losing billions of dollars every year to generic versions and have little to spend on their own research and development, they are looking to buy smaller biotechnology companies that are developing their own products.

This points towards a vision for the future of cities, where diverse urban aspirations of prosperity and sustainable development are linked by a desire for equality.

While Google's arsenal of perks — which includes everything from «stock equity,» to «free 24/7 gym access,» «aaaaaamazing holiday parties,» and «mini-kitchens, snacks, drinks, free breakfast / lunch / dinner, all day, errr «day» — are notoriously cushy, the company wins real points with employees for attracting «the best talent and best people to work with in the world» as well as providing abundant «opportunities for career growth, and tons of career development resources.»

The truth seems to be that medicine is merely the most obvious point of collision between forces set in motion by the peculiar development of Jewish life in America.

But the survey also points to a clear reason: Of the workers who want to leave their jobs within the next two years, more than 70 % cite a lack of leadership developmenOf the workers who want to leave their jobs within the next two years, more than 70 % cite a lack of leadership developmenof leadership development.

Bloomberg's 100 - point scale rated each state in six equally - weighted categories: research and development intensity; productivity; high - tech density; concentration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) employment; science and engineering degree holders; and patent activity.

«At a certain point in the development of the company, the owner has to delegate or the business stalls,» says Jim Skinner, a marketing and entrepreneurship professor at Humber College.

McFarland points out that many of the great fast - growing companies of the past few decades relied on Market Development as their main growth strategy.

He met hundreds in his previous job as president of Export Development Canada, and he makes a point of meeting business leaders when he travels.

To achieve this, the panels pointed to the importance of increasing dialogue between academia and business on the development of curricula to have business people teach classes but also to give students chances to experience business life through internships.