IP Jobs Opening Up as Firms Focus on IP Asset Revenue
Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit on behalf of EMG Technology against Apple ... their IP asset management teams and introducing significantly higher levels of sophistication to their IP asset management process. As a result, demand for IP talent is intensifying. Firms Seek to Extract [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 10:00:26
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Microsoft lays out road map for next BizTalk releases
Microsoft Friday renamed the next major release of BizTalk server and committed to releasing major updates to the business process management server ... focus on asset management to support remote devices beyond RFID readers, he added. Computerworld ... line ever two years or less. Burley Kawasaki, director of product management in Microsoft's [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 19:24:55
Nancy Killefer!
Nancy Killefer! Posted on January 7th, 2009 in Obama Cabinet, Barack Obama by lalate PHOTOS! ... Service, prepared Treasury’s systems for Y2K, and reshaped management processes, including installing an asset management program across the Treasury Department. After returning to McKinsey in 2000 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 16:15:09
Nancy Killefer Biography
Nancy Killefer is a senior director in the Washington, D.C. office of McKinsey & Company, Inc ... Treasury's systems for Y2K, and reshaped management processes, including installing an asset ... on a full range of management issues including strategy, organization, marketing and systems [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 00:56:00
Spime Watch: Vibration Energy Harvesting
http://www.perpetuum.co.uk/home.php?page_id=1 (((Put it next to a rattling piece of badly tuned machinery and it turns the clatter into current ... for many industrial applications; such as Asset Tracking & Management, Process Monitoring, Plant ... to power sensors, micro processors and RF systems, enabling critical performance data [more...]
Date: 2008-07-20 10:39:48
TRX Inc. (TRXI): Traveling Towards Profits in Your Portfolio?
TRX develops and hosts software applications to automate manual processes and track transaction data in the travel industry ... Asset Management and Horrell Capital Management. TRX had 2007 sales of $101 million and has cash ... exchanges, refunds, waivers and split payments, commission management, fare loading, document [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 13:04:21
Guest Post: ALC and the new CG Logistics Model
This is a guest post from the Coast Guard's Chief Engineer, RDML Tom Ostebo: The ribbon cutting ceremony for the Aviation Logistics Center (ALC) ... a decade. It boasts end-to-end asset management and enables continual process improvement, providing ... in Elizabeth City, NC, on Oct 30th represents the Coast Guard's next big step toward Modernization [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 15:35:03
Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. (NGLPF.OB) Fixed Price Contracts Awarded and Moving Forward
In today’s rocky economic setting, it is always a refreshing event to see a project with broad economic reach progressing forward nicely ... definitely not the case. Financing (TCW Asset Management ... generating plant (with additional units in process.) As other alternative energy sources receive [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 16:13:37
Macquarie Group (ASX:MQG) Profits Fall By 43%
Selling stuff you bought with borrowed money is a process that’s mostly been confined to the financial markets in 2008 ... one was the 43% decline in income from asset and equity investments. There were some strange assets ... mortgages and fund management assets. It did not, however, take any write downs on Macquarie Airports [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 17:05:14
TRUCKS REPOSSESSIONS * USA - Down in 2008
NY,USA -Land Line Magazine -January 13, 2009: -- In what could be a bit of surprising economic news, heavy-duty truck repossessions were down in 2008 according to Nassau Asset Management... Truck repossessions processed by Nassau declined in 2008 from a high point in 2007, but the 2008 totals [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 19:50:19
PC Inventory Advisor v.3.2.628 added
PC Inventory Advisor fully automates the network computer software and hardware inventory process ... for all-in-one expensive asset management and helpdesk software. Product License: SW Source: None File [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 21:00:00
'Best Franchisor in Travel ' award to TravelPort Holidays by Franchise India '08 Awards
/India PRwire/ - Master Sun Consulting's is pleased to announce that its client TravelPort Holidays India Pvt. Ltd ... ; distribution, marketing & brand management , operational excellence, service quality, asset optimization ... franchisor with strong franchising systems and processes. With internationally benchmarked best [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 10:26:31
Air Products: Process Engineer, Principal Systems Engineer, OLED, Cryogenics, Audit Analyst, Tax Controller
Req No. 2673BRJob Title SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEEREmployment Status Full TimeEmployment Type ExemptCountry United StatesLocation ... , the appropriate Business asset managers to drive many of the best practices and productivity into the product line.• Provide support to resolving other system systemic issues. To work on other issues off-line [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:22:00
Four at Four: Washington Gridlock
What happened Thursday in Washington was not an exact repeat of the breakdown in negotiations over the funding of the TARP plan, ... Arnold, investment advisor at Dawson Wealth Management in Cleveland. The unsteady procession toward ... , the extreme spreads evident in credit markets, where the loan markets, asset-backed, and high-yield [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 12:45:00
Inflation Part 2: The Results of Underreporting Inflation
The following is a guest post from Marotta Asset Management ... to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation ... -of-living adjustments. Seniors are left to live Amish lives in a digital age. Productivity [more...]
Date: 2008-07-12 10:08:00
U.S. Cities Join Carbon Disclosure Project
What gets measured gets managed, and for too long the processes that emit carbon into the atmosphere have gone unmanaged ... climate change-relevant data through the project’s transparent tracking system. The cities, including ... investors with a combined asset base of more than $57 trillion, is trying to change that. The CDP said [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 20:12:36
Bailout Politics: Is the Constitution Now Null and Void?
Article I, Section 9, Clause 7, U.S. ConstitutionNo money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall ... of billions of dollars allocated to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, reports that it can't [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 06:02:00
Digital Organization: Taming the Clamoring and Unruly Beasts
Once Upon a Giant, Snarling Collection... We creatives tend to be collectors. After all, collecting is a common consequence of having a passion. We collect tools, ideas, materials, and more, in preparation of creating. Our collections inspire us while connecting us to things we enjoy, to our lives, and to each other [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 16:26:44
10 Ways Personal Branding Can Save You From Getting Fired
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09) ... . OK, now for the tips: 1. Become an invaluable asset to your colleagues, professional network ... proficient, partially due to being raised in a sea of computer wires. Have you ever been asked to help [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 16:03:04
Why You Need SAP Training To Secure Your SAP Job
By Charles WardWell before reflecting upon that doubt let's have a prompt review of what we are verbalizing about ... to become an independent SAP consultant and be the master of your individual career and management ... (Profit Center Accounting) SD (Sales and Distribution) SD COM (Customer Order Management) HR [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 09:04:00
Santa Claus demands massive bailout
By Alex R. Dahl Special to TV Barn NORTH POLE, December 24, 2008 -- Rumors that Santa Claus may be the latest and most high-profile victim of the worldwide credit crisis sent world stock markets roiling and children's hopes plummeting today as Wall Street analysts warned that Santa's entire production and distribution network could [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 15:22:02
Avocent's Solutions Help Companies Save
Avocent headquarters in Huntsville, Al As budgets tighten, companies are looking for ways to do more with less ... collaboration tools. Today I would like to talk about data center management solutions, which can help ... where headcounts are shrinking at a greater rate than workloads. Avocent management team -- Ed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:53:11
Ten years after
The Information Era has arrived. The Machine Age is over. The rules have changed. The sky has fallen in. Human resources are more important than natural resources, brains more important than brawn. Networks are connecting everyone and everything. Clocks run faster. In this topsy-turvy world, few things are predictable. %&#* happens [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 18:33:01
As The Politicians Battle It Out Ukraine’s Economy Tunnels South In Search Of Australia
“In Ukraine, the evidence is still that policymakers do not quite understand the seriousness of the challenges they face,”. Timothy Ash, analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland. “There is a burgeoning economic crisis in the European periphery,” Krugman said on the ABC network Dec. 14. “The money has dried up [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 16:06:18
Ethical or Unethical?
I was recently approached by a web/graphic designer that is currently working full time for an agency. Business is currently a bit slow in the design area and someone within the company approached them about the possibility of using their personal online portfolio to show potential clients in hopes to attract design work [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 04:09:27
Identifying Opportunities to Reduce TCO with Cost Savings Analysis and Optimization Self-Assessment Tools
Current economic downturn confronts us with a tremendous impact and unfavorable trend on worldwide IT budget and spending as shown on the chart and ... , per year substantiate the claim of transforming IT from a cost-center burden into a strategic asset ... analysis tool examines IT infrastructure and platform to identify cost savings opportunities [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 18:39:00
SO AGAIN — HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
Dr. Peter T Treadway is an independent consultant and money manager and Adjunct Professor in Asia ... /investment management firm dedicated to global portfolio management. Its investment approach is based ... that will assist Asian financial institutions with their risk management problems. The Dismal [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 18:27:27
The Inflation Factor
The Inflation Factor Doug Short is a retired IT manager and lifelong investor with a Duke Ph.D. and a prior career as an English Professor at North Carolina State University. In the mid-’80s I was seduced by IBM microcomputer technology and spent many years with Big Blue before finally settling on IT management in a Big Pharma company, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 16:09:38
Sea level rise and the Maldives
Heightened fears for lowering landsOlivia Lang, BBC News 12 Jan 09;The Maldives' idyllic, pristine beaches and tropical reefs attract more than half a million tourists to the small Indian Ocean nation every year.But an unavoidable catastrophe awaits the Muslim nation and its natural beauty: the threat of global climate change and rising sea levels [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 01:09:00
Some Thoughts on 2009
So much promise, so many risks. This is how 2009 is shaping up. While euphoria surrounding the Obama Administration's fiscal stimulus plans will drive the markets early in the year, I believe this rally will lose steam as massive deficit spending begins to shine a light on the greatest risk facing the US: debasement of the currency [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 22:51:16
16 months?
Jim Welsh of Welsh Money Management has been publishing his monthly investment letter, “The Financial Commentator”, since 1985 ... this time.” In his March 2008 letter, he forecast a rally in the S&P to 1420-1440, before the bear ... for the coming bull market. Getting run over by the bear market was not good. But missing the new bull [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 20:05:11
GPX: The Corporate Training Penny Stock for 2009
“Growth” isn’t a word we can expect to hear in most industries for a long time — most, ... companies are making the decision to invest in an asset that’s not always noticed by investors… their people ... enterprise learning and talent management, “Corporations are investing heavily in current [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:16:30
Appraisal Fraud and Industry Standards Described in 2003 Official White Paper-RED FLAGS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH EXCELLENT DIAGRAMS EXPLANATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICES
loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiecloan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelsonRed Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 15:33:10
Wall Street, Circa 2010: Disaggregation and Specialization
The Wall Street of today is almost unrecognizable from that at which I worked for almost two decades ... word. Securitization? Don't want to hear about it. Asset-backed what? Sell - sell now! What started ... complexity and distance from its intended goal, risk management, was a key contributor to the financial [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:07:45
The Citi Never Sleeps - Only its Board, Risk Managers and Regulators
The Citigroup of the past decade is THE shining example of an array of costly failures: accounting policies; business strategies; management compensation schemes; risk management practices; and Government policies. And now we see that Citigroup is doing badly; more badly, in fact, than many thought likely. Rubin is out. Smith [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 16:07:45
DrumBeat: January 12, 2009
A novel plan for economic stimulus What's different now? In the 1930s, even though the U.S. economy collapsed, we still had a surplus of natural resources -- we were then the world's No. 1 producer of oil and coal. Fast forward 80 years. Despite the recent temporary dip in the price of gas and heating oil, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 14:02:56
GPX: The Corporate Training Penny Stock For 2009
Jonas Elmerraji says battered companies are paying more attention to their most valuable asset: people ... . And with a strong management and solid balance sheet, Jonas says this stock looks a great buy for 2009 ... , many companies are making the decision to invest in an asset that’s not always noticed by investors… [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 12:28:53
GMAC: Snatching Victory From the Jaws of Bailout Defeat
It is much easier to win when you let the federal government do your negotiating for you ... , as a crucial $38 billion debt-exchange offer foundered and co-owner General Motors was struggling with the specter of bankruptcy. Yet GMAC succeeded, garnering $5 billion in Troubled Asset Relief [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 12:43:00
Participatory Learning and the New Humanities: An Interview with Cathy Davidson
Cathy Davidson is Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke ... , Technology Advanced Collaboratory) and co-director of the Digital Media and Learning Competition ... Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition, which featured it as a theme, “Participatory Learning” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:45:00
Presidential Rank Awards — Top Federal Honor — Given to Two USGS Scientists and Deputy Director
Deputy Director Doyle Recognized as Distinguished Executive; Scientists Betancourt, ... as an effective change agent, risk taker and problem solver. "Not only has Bob been a critical asset ... for his leadership, strategic thinking and management expertise," said Myers. "Again and again, he displays [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 18:16:14
Creating “Mini-TARP” Bonus Pools Would Help
Good Evening: As 2008 bumps, grinds, and otherwise limps its way to a close, various asset markets can be expected to trade in narrow ranges ... , but management at Credit Suisse may have found a way that could, if widely adopted on the Street, put private [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 04:55:44
How To Master SAP Components and Modules
By John CookEvery organisation has numerous departments, and it is essential to integrate every last of these departments to work uniformly. SAP software integrates all interior procedures by means of various modules. The advance SAP ... can be done efficiently if the company has set up SAP software. Irrespective of the size [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 11:06:00
Memo to The Banks
Memo to The Banks: Lend or Else DAVID SMICKBack in the early 1990s, when Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan was still considered "the Maestro," I asked him what he thought of the Reagan administration's economic program. I anticipated a discussion of 1980s tax and interest rate policy. That's not what I got [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:01:00
Highlights From the Part 1 of the Barron’s Roundtable
Each year, Barron’s invites various investment experts* to their roundtable, asks them a bunch of questions, and then publishes it in three parts. Here are some highlights from Part 1 of the annual Barron’s Roundtable ($): Scott Black: A lot of the stock market’s performance will be contingent on public policy. The consumer is dead [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 18:47:52
DrumBeat: December 16, 2008
Robert Bryce: OPEC Was Right About Oil Prices. Now What? Back in June, I wrote a piece for The American in which I argued that oil prices were being driven higher by the immutable law of supply and demand. Today, with prices plunging to near $40 instead of the $145 level seen in mid-July, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 13:30:26
WSF Headline Roundup - 1/8/09 - SEC Probes Pequot again; Wal-Mart warns; India's Enron; Frank: TARP aid for munis; Mtge rates < 5%; BOE cuts rates to lowest since 1694!; Intel warns; Lower '09 metals prices?; Other retailers warn; MGM Mirage to cut debt
SEC Reopens Probe of Trading at Pequot Wal-Mart’s Fourth-Quarter Earnings Will Miss Forecast $1bn fraud at India IT group Satyam Accounting Scandal Erodes Confidence in India As scandal rocks Satyam, rivals may pick off clients U.S. House’s Frank Says TARP Funds Should Aid Muni-Bond Issuers PennyMac, Led by Ex-Countrywide Head, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 13:40:42
2008 Terrorism
As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07
SuccessFactors in HCM landgrab to bolster sales
Facing a shuddering halt in its hitherto fast-track growth trajectory, talent management vendor SuccessFactors will today launch an aggressive landgrab for territory currently dominated by conventional back-office human capital management (HCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 11:44:51
LiveTime updates ITIL Service Management Software with Technician Scheduling and Multi-Item Requests
LiveTime 5.5 also introduces KPI reporting, context sensitive quick calls, team based separation and localizations for Chinese, Spanish and Romanian ... Management and Help Desk Software, today announced the general availability of LiveTime Service Manager v5.5 and LiveTime Help Desk v5.5. This release focuses specifically on streamlined request manag [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:50:04
GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - December 17, 2008
GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips for December 17, 2008 includes news and commentaries on the following topics: Republican Party candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and events Republican Party platform issues including promoting a strong national defense, respect for the rule of law, individual responsibilitiy, traditional values, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 16:22:23
