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Global Outlook

Corporate Boards Increasingly Driving Enterprise Risk Management

More corporate boards are driving enterprise risk management (ERM), but despite progress, ERM has yet to become embedded in most companies’ day-to-day activities, according to a report released by The Conference Board.
The report, sponsored by Oliver Wyman....

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		Corporate Spotlight
		Comcast creates partnerships toincrease awareness of digital transition and voter registration
		Comcast isn’t satisfied with simply donating funds to diversity organizations when it comes to supporting multicultural initiatives. The nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications is heavily involved with outreach programs targeting diversity groups for two major events taking place this year and in 2009: the Presidential election and the end of analog TV transmissions.....
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Mangement
Connecting with Your Customers
	It takes effort to find and maintain customers. It is generally easier to retain an existing customer than to locate a new one. What are some of the steps a business uses to attract, keep and maintain its customer base....
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Customer Relationship Management

Strategies for Getting and Keeping Customers

Running a small business is no easy task for anyone. However, the challenge is even more daunting for women and minority business owners. What are the benefits for them in terms of utilizing customer relationship management (CRM) processes in their businesses ...

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Business Coach

How to work in an open plan office

Many work environments are now more open and fewer companies provide offices. This has many challenges

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Corporate Roundup

New Initiative to Assist Medium and Large Minority-Owned Companies Opens for Business ....

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Power Branding

Briefs for Building Better Brands
Looking for Trouble

I’m sure you can easily remember being disappointed in a business transaction at some point -- the other party did a less than satisfactory job... maybe they were incompetent, non-trustworthy or perhaps even rude.We’ve all had experiences like this, and if...

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Supplier News

United Technologies Corp. (UTC) (NYSE: UTX) told attendees at its sixth annual Minority Business Exchange event that it expects to spend more than $300 million this year with minority suppliers—nearly double the total of just five years earlier.....

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Delicious Diversity

I recently attended two remarkable food events in Canada. The first was in Vancouver, BC., and the second was in Edmonton, AB. Beth Pomper, trade commissioner for the Canadian Consulate in Philadelphia, has been pioneering for the integration of Canadian minority and women-owned businesses into U.S. Supplier Diversity.....

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Tech Trends

VMware, Inc. the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center, announced that it enhanced its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution with the new VMware Virtual Desktop Manager 2. VMware Desktop Manager 2 allows users to securely connect to their virtual desktops. ....

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Economic review

What a year it has been. We have had wild swings in economic growth, the rise of subprime foreclosures and credit crunches. I said 2007 would be a year of challenges, but little...

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