Sentences with phrase «things companies try»

Marketing and recruiting often are the first things companies try to affect with regard to their diversity efforts, often overlooking their vendor procurement policies and diversification of their vendor partners.

Not exact matches

Breaking with the past is a difficult thing to do for established companies, and it's something BlackBerry tried before when building BlackBerry 10.

A smart approach to compensation studies will help your company attract and retain talent — while avoiding stumbles that could punish you for trying to do the right thing.

One of the things the VCs told me that I could do that I've been exploring already is to form a «Tech 20,» which would consist of 20 companies that would actually embed various apps developed in this city in their operations and try them out.

The same things you generally do to avoid catching any flu — wash your hands and steer clear of the guy hacking and sniffing on the subway or airplane (and hey, if you're want to try stocking up on Vitamin C, you'd be in good company, even if science suggests you're probably not accomplishing much).

In changing a core part of Facebook — the 7 - year - old «like» button has become synonymous with the social network — the company said it tried to keep things familiar.

Just as smartphones forever changed our lives, 57 percent of consumers say that they believe the Internet of Things will be revolutionary, with another 47 percent saying that companies that aren't trying to connect their products to the Internet are missing a big opportunity, according to a study conducted by marketing tech company Affinnova which was recently acquired by consumer and media insights compmany Nielsen.

That's a terrible thing in America, where a guy who has been a company commander in Afghanistan or Iraq goes to try and get a job at a tech company, some 25 - year - old HR weenie asks them if they've ever had a real job.

Renting more expensive things, like a backhoe, would require a significantly larger pile of cash, so the company is currently trying to find a safer way of paying.

In our world of trying to make everything bigger and faster, the challenge for companies ranging from SAP to Google (GOOGL) has been how to get more information into the DRAM, because if you want real - time data processing (for example, the Internet of things or for business transactions) you want jobs performed right next to the computer processor.

The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.

But the smart thing that the private firms did was they looked at their existing portfolio companies and tried to figure out how to leverage the internet.

The company also hired Environics, a marketing analytics company, to help identify their target market: folks who spend lots of time on their mobile devices, are open to trying new things and have a high degree of control over their finances.

«A lot of companies that are successful in the long term try to do things a little differently [and] get a lot of criticism,» Pearson said in an interview in August.

James ran the company's software division, which had nothing to do with microchips, so some people are viewing her appointment as more proof that Intel is willing to try new things.

Inevitably, when you're a young company and you've got an idea and a vision, you're trying to do a hundred different things.

Argue what the company's sustainable «unfair advantages» are — the reasons that would lead to success more than someone else trying to do the same thing (for example, unique talent, strategic connections, key intellectual property).

Liss - Riordan said she can see through Uber's smoke and mirrors because she has seen companies try to do the same thing before, whether it was FedEx misclassifying their drivers or night clubs doing the same with their exotic dancers.

One day, I just said: «Let's try the simplest thing and just ask the companies what they're looking for.

But attracting and retaining them will be a tricky thing for companies that try to operate in the same ways they always have.

Companies do these incredibly annoying things because they're trying to minimize the cost of support.

The CEO said the visit was one of a number of things that confirmed his company should try to acquire Sky.

But they come from companies who allow their people to try new things and fail without consequences.

«I think as a company, if you can get those two things right — having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff — then you can do pretty well.»

But larger tech companies are reaching into their deeper pockets to try to do the right thing.

It does make me worry, because one of the things I try to weed out of our company are people who have very strong egos, who believe they're always right, who can't be introspective and admit they're not perfect.»

But let things play out, says Peter Handal, chairman and CEO of global training company Dale Carnegie Training: «Don't try to stop someone from crying.

Their willingness to assume the risk of working in the startup companies is what will make them willing to try things and be creative in your company.

«Those companies trying to make themselves look good are just making things worse,» said Fang Libing, a financial analyst based in Shanghai.

Walmart has also been in steep competition with Amazon, leading the company to try things like opening FedEx Office locations inside stores and acquiring companies like Jet.

Zuckerberg concluded: «The biggest things that have gotten done in the world tend to be done by people who primarily believe in a mission and are not trying to build a company; by teams, not by individuals; and by people who just don't give up.»

So they exist out there and they usually try, if they're entrepreneurs, they build companies that are trying to do the next big thing or trying to make huge changes in human behavior.

Keep trying new things and elevating new voices within your company.

«I've heard stories from friends [at the company] that if HR does find out [about an office romance], they won't make you uncomfortable; they'll try to make things work,» he says.

After graduating, he got into the security industry doing offensive research — trying to break things and telling companies how to fix them.

I get frustrated and annoyed with things just like anyone else, but I've never felt the sentiment of these sentences - yet I've heard them from entrepreneurs looking to start their own companies, from consultants working on projects, and from people trying their best to orbit the giant hairball that is a Fortune company...

The best way is to try to spread things out, whether it is rental properties, eateries, online businesses, or service companies.

Have a safe space to try things out, especially since «there's no one - size - fits - all audience» for marketing, advised Magen Hanrahan, VP of Media and Marketing Services at Kraft Heinz Company, during her keynote at Modern Customer Experience.

Try this: Join the weekly sales meeting in your company, and do two things.

However, as more than one Twitter user noted, this is an instance where they're trying to close Pandora's Box but the only thing that the company has left inside is... hope.

Less than 1 in 3 (31 percent) said that Facebook is a «responsible company because it tries to do the right thing most of the time even if that gets in the way of it making profits.»

But Google has only been able to grow into a $ 360 billion company by trying bold new things and constantly iterating their systems — not by blindly applying the successful models of other companies.

Almost 4 out of 10 Americans (39 percent) said: «Facebook is not a responsible company because it puts making profits most of the time ahead of trying to do the right thing.»

It also tries to ensure that all of the issues are kept quiet and far away from the meddling of the media which could blow the whole thing up and force company executives to testify in front of Congressional hearings.

A lot of people, even trying to access their own companies website, don't even bother typing in the domain URL, they go to Google, search for it and click on the first thing they see... which is probably your branding ad.

The company has long struggled to overcome two big challenges: the industrywide drop in display advertising that has traditionally been its primary revenue source and the distraction inherent in trying to excel at many different things, from news and fantasy sports to web searches and email.

That is, most of the things GE (or any other company) does in order to avoid taxes are thing the government is trying, however ham - fistedly, to encourage companies to do.

When Nike management refused to acknowledge (never mind try to fix) the company's misogynist culture, female executives used something very simple, yet surprisingly effective to turn things around: a survey.

If you believe you have a great idea and are passionate about trying to build a company around it then the only thing worse than raising money from inexperienced people is raising no money at all.

The comments, says Liviakis, «were talking about pedophilia, and there were disparaging, racist sort of remarks about my Greek heritage, and all kinds of evil things, to try to make fun of me and make fun of companies that I was involved in, and anyway to scare down the stock.»