Sentences with phrase «set company strategy»

MILAN, April 30 (Reuters)- Activist fund Elliott sought to reassure Telecom Italia chief Amos Genish on Monday that it would work with him to set company strategy, after he said his position would be «untenable» if Elliott succeeded in overhauling the board.

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Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

Constituent companies are chosen based on their score on two sets of measures: a quantitative assessment consisting of their return on equity, balance sheet accruals ratio and financial leverage ratio; and a qualitative score derived from management's responses to a survey about such topics as corporate governance, risk and crisis management, customer relationships and tax strategies.

The tech company has pinned the hopes of its shareholders on a live - streaming strategy whose flagship programming, a package of NFL games, is finally set to kick off with that game.

Those questions focused on how companies treated their employees and their customers, how they set strategy and how they used technology.

As Jason Cole, CEO of Da Primus Consulting, puts it, «The leadership is unable to set a clear strategy for the company and stick with it long enough to succeed, resulting in a lot of wasted money and energy from constant changes in direction.»

One way to set yourself up for success is to find out what strategies have made other companies successful — or not.

In this role, he leads business and financial strategies for the company to deliver profitable growth and long - term shareholder value, and sets direction for the finance, operations, supply chain and information technology functions.

Friedberg's strategy to stay mum on the company's environmentally friendly and nutrition bona fides comes down to his ambitions to reach more than the wellness and eco-warrior set.

There are great managers who can make sure programs are executed on budget and on time, but what sets a company apart is a head of marketing that can devise a strategy and vision that transforms the company.

Think of it: Thousands of companies set out for an achingly long test of their strategy, their preparation and, most of all, their ability to endure.

With the majority of companies now having a content marketing strategy in place, it is important to focus on what you can do in order to set your content marketing strategy apart from the competition.

Strategies for building a quality reputation include setting up programs such as corporate citizenship and «shared value» programs, which aim to create value both for the company and for the communities in which it operates.

«The one thing that I really think Facebook has going for them is that the feature set is proven to work on mobile devices really well and proven to work for people without training,» says Josh Bersin, principal and founder of Bersin by Deloitte, which advises companies on corporate learning strategies.

«Early founders are remarkable visionaries who can turn a company's strategy left and right, but that doesn't usually translate well to setting up an operational structure for hundreds of people,» says Roberge.

The beauty of Gravitant is that it will let a company's employees set up and use a variety of cloud services using the same screen whether those services lie inside their own firewall, on dedicated resources run by IBM outside their firewall, or in some other public cloud (including AWS), said Don Rippert, IBM's general manager of cloud strategy.

You can use a range of strategies — including setting a maximum loss or gain that causes you to sell, an amount of time you plan to hold the investment for, or even certain company fundamentals to check to help you decide whether to buy more, hold or sell.

In other words, as a holding company, our job is executive oversight, support, setting risk management parameters, and putting the right people in the right places to align with our corporate strategy (if we own enough stock to control an investment, we can fire the managers and replace them at our own discretion).

He told me that the CEO set the strategy but that he, the President, traveled to all of the conferences evangelizing on behalf of the company.

In an emailed statement, the company says it feels strategically sound: «We feel very confident around our product and growth strategy, it's not something we divulge in public settings — but our board and investors are very happy with where we're taking the company strategically.»

At a startup, that often means setting a vision and a strategy while managing the business, winning customers, motivating employees, and crucially, figuring out ways to remove the challenges that stand in the way of the company's success.

Hazem Dawani, the former chief executive officer of OptionsCity Software, has joined the company as chief executive officer with responsibility for setting the go - to - market strategy and managing all aspects of the business.

And the strategies they set to compete have now placed Google squarely in the line of fire against the world's largest social - media company.

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The ways that I see companies lose their strategy can be tied back to shortcomings in the SMART goal - setting process.

Determining exactly how much to charge for your products or services is a major step towards setting your long - term pricing strategy as a company.

Andrew Henderson is a world traveler, nomad pioneer, entrepreneur, investor and founder of Nomad Capitalist, a business consulting company that helps young entrepreneurs create their own nomad strategy, which often involves legally setting up foreign bank accounts, moving their business overseas, obtaining second passports / residency and investing in foreign markets.

According to Ukwazi mining lawyer Spencer Eckstein, mine planning is a critical function for any operation, as it identifies mining risk, determines requirements and forecasts production cost, including whether mining companies can meet their set targets or produce the correct quantities and qualities and what remedial strategies to implement.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

As with all startups, he wears a number of hats, but is generally tasked with setting the overall strategy for the company and on a daily basis oversees Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Investor Relations.

Four concrete and relevant targets by 2025 In order to secure the future of chocolate, Barry Callebaut's new sustainability strategy includes four targets that the company expects to achieve by 2025 and that address the biggest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain: • Eradicate child labor from its supply chain • Lift more than 500,000 cocoa farmers out of poverty • Become carbon and forest positive • Have 100 % sustainable ingredients in all its products CEO Antoine de Saint - Affrique says: «The targets we have set ourselves after a thorough materiality analysis are bold, and we recognize that we do not have all the answers.

Working directly with Force Brands, she rounded out her operational, strategy, sales and management skill set with experience handling executive recruiting, retention and human resources matters for a variety of food and beverage companies, evaluating and fulfilling the management and operational needs of emerging and established brands by staffing upper management and operational personnel.

Howe set up a side company named Potomac Strategies, which he used to embezzle money from his actual employer, the Albany law firm Whiteman Osterman and Hanna.

Meanwhile Gill, Cameron's director of strategy in Number 10, has set up a new lobbying shop «to advise companies in the post-Brexit world».

Finally, Cameron's former director of strategy Ameet Gill has set up a new lobbying shop «to advise companies in the post-Brexit world».

Prosecutors charge that Greer steered $ 199,254 in state party money to a company, Victory Strategies, LLC, that he set up with former state Republican Party Executive Director Delmar Johnson.

This was Jesse's strategy for 7 years, but once companies started reaching out to her, she became more assertive in setting boundaries for her role in collaborations and the requirements for her graduation.

Until recently, Appel was developing a «leave - behind strategy for us as a company and planning to set up in Europe only.»

Throughout his career, John has always set out to implement strategies to dramatically improve the performance and profitability of his companies.

Tweaking, remoulding and teasing out the underlying systems of the original, and then layering things like cold weather, may not set the world on fire like the original Company of Heroes did but it's still a solid strategy game and with the right support and continued release of content I can see it living on for quite some time.

These new sets of learning requirements are forcing companies to rethink their learning strategies, and world - class organizations are responding to the challenge by rethinking their learning technology selections.

As Expertus» COO, Mohana is instrumental in setting the strategy, driving execution and creating best practices for the company's services and technology.

The company has since had its role beefed up following the publication of the government's careers strategy last December, which included proposals on careers trials in primary schools and a # 5 million scheme to set up 20 «careers hubs» across the country.

The company's much - anticipated DBX small crossover is set to launch this year and is expected to play a significant part in Aston's longer - term strategy, further lifting sales which are forecast to rise significantly from 2017 when the company is set making a post-tax profit.

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Set for a limited production run of 155 cars, RapidE, it spearheads development of the marques's low - and zero - emission vehicle strategy laid out by Aston Martin's President and CEO, Dr Andy Palmer, in the company's Second Century Plan.

One of the sources of that buzz was the Hyundai Motor Europe stand, where President and CEO Hyung Cheong Kim and Senior Vice President and COO Thomas A. Schmid set out the company's eco mobility strategy over the next three years.

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Your company's Twitter handle has a healthy amount of interaction, your status on Skype is set to chat with customers, and your email marketing strategies are always segmented and split - tested.

Kobo's HTML5 app will not replace the company's existing apps, but extend its read - across - any - device strategy to reach a broader set of users and add additional value for their current customer base.