The Way Ahead The immense lack of strategic vision is the biggest problem that needs to be addressed within the counterintelligence field. Jennifer E. Simms and Burton Gerber emphasize three root causes that contribute to the weaknesses in the counterintelligence process in their article, The Way Ahead. Technological change, political culture and confused purposes are among the three contributors discussed in the article. United States counterintelligence can be used to its maximum potential
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TAKE-HOME GRADED CASE ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT: “PEOPLEAHEAD MARKETING PLAN” 1. DEFINE each of the following sections of the PeopleAhead Marketing Plan: a. Executive Summary: An executive summary, sometimes known as a management summary, is a short document or section of a document, produced for business purposes, that summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having
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Valve steams ahead Is it possible for a company to survive with no managers? Valve software, the maker of computer games classics such as Half Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Counter Strike and Left 4 Dead and the online game platform Steam, seems to prove that this is possible. In 2012 the company had about 300 employees, and although based in Bellevue, Washington, USA, the company jokingly claimed that up to half of employees
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Barron's Cover | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2012 Fair Winds Ahead By MICHAEL SANTOLI | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR Superior performance has helped Neuberger Berman survive and thrive since the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. Neuberger Berman was knocked around more than most asset managers in the treacherous seas of the 2008 financial crisis. The 73-year-old firm had only recently been lashed to Lehman Brothers when the investment bank foundered and ultimately failed. Buyout firms proposed a lifeline, but
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should Peachtree try to fix its IT infrastructure problem? Four commentators offer expert advice. Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? by John P Glaser . • Reprint R0707A Peachtree Healthcare’s patchwork IT infrastructure is in critical condition. Should the CEO approve a shift to risky new technology or go with the time-tested monolithic system? HBR CASE STUDY Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? by John P Glaser . COPYRIGHT © 2007 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS
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TrueBlood Case – Rough Waters Ahead 1. How should Smooth Sailings’ management perform the recoverability test for the cruise ship as of December 31, 2010? In addressing this question, consider: The following are the required steps to identify, recognize and measure the impairment of a long-lived asset (group) to be held and used: Step 1: Indicators of impairment — FASB ASC 360-10-35-21 “A long-lived asset (asset group) shall be tested for recoverability whenever events or changes in
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Staying ahead of the game by Marketing ON 20 February 2013 As the digital economy comes of age and the marketing disciplines struggle to adapt, we ask four senior practitioners about their professional evolution, how they stay up to date with the changes in their respective professions and what they look for in potential hires. David Redhill Partner and chief marketing officer Deloitte When you started your marketing career what was the digital component of your discipline and role like?
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1. How should Smooth Sailings’ management perform the recoverability test for the cruise ship as of December 31,2010? In addressing this question, consider: * What assets and liabilities should be included in the “asset group” as defined by ASC 360-10 for purposes of performing the recoverability test? 360-10-35-21 According to ASC 360-10-35-23 a long-lived asset or assets shall be grouped with other assets and liabilities at the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent
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[pic] Too Far Ahead of the IT Curve? By John P Glaser Introduction Question: Peachtree Healthcare’s patchwork IT infrastructure is in critical condition. Should the CEO approve a shift to risky new technology or go with the time-tested monolithic system? Freshly showered and cooling down after their squash game, Max Berndt drank iced tea with his board chairman, Paul Lefler. Max, a thoracic surgeon by training, was the CEO of Peachtree Healthcare. He’d occupied the post for nearly 12 years
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In the "Rough Road Ahead: Do Not Exceed Posted Speed Limit" by Joe Kurmaskie, a cyclist decides to test his luck with trying a “‘shortcut’ that was to slice away hours of [his] ride to Yosemite National Park”, advice given to him by a group of old strangers. Eventually he begins to realize that his trust was misplaced as his water supply diminishes to nothingness and the landscape changes from hopeful straight roads to ghost-town scattered hills. The various tragic events in the setting, such as
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