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Extracted 30NOV2011 from http://www.npr.org/2011/11/29/142521910/the-digital-breadcrumbs-that-lead-to-... What do Facebook, Groupon and biotech firm Human Genome Sciences have in common? They all rely on massive amounts of data to design their pro...
Read MoreExtracted 29NOV2011 from http://tinyurl.com/87e2et6 Impressively fast growth in the Latin American IT services market is drawing interest from both local and global private equity investors. Claudio Muruzabal, CEO of global business/IT consulting ...
Read MoreExtracted 28NOV2011 from http://www.pitchbook.com/library.html One encouraging trend seen this year has been the ability for private equity funds of all sizes to raise capital, with the exception of the mega funds (over $5 billion). Middle-market ...
Read MoreExtracted 28NOV2011 from http://www.pitchbook.com/library.html During the third quarter, sales to strategics (corporate acquisitions) led activity with 65 deals and $16 billion. Secondary buyouts (PE to PE deals) continued to be a popular exit met...
Read MoreExtracted 22NOV2011 from http://www.pitchbook.com/library.html PitchBook is an independent and impartial research firm dedicated to providing premium data, news and analysis to the private equity industry. As a specialty-focused information resour...
Read MoreExtracted 22NOV2011 from http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199296378/01student/additional/page_10.htm The micro-environment consists of stakeholder groups that a firm has regular dealings with. The way these relationships develop can affect the co...
Read MoreExtracted 22NOV2011 from http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199296378/01student/additional/page_12.htm There are many factors in the macro-environment that will effect the decisions of the managers of any organisation. Tax changes, new laws, trade ...
Read MoreExtracted 22NOV2011 from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/21/prweb8977106.DTL#ixzz1eS8RVyrN Global Industry Analysts, Inc. (GIA) announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Cloud Computing Services markets. Gl...
Read MoreExtracted 22NOV2011 from http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/11/21/innovation-is-exploding-say-sp... Despite seemingly endless financial turmoil in Europe and gridlock in Washington, venture investors and entrepreneurs found reason to be opti...
Read MoreExtracted 21NOV2011 from http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/the-big-data-boom-is-the-... Today businesses can measure their activities and customer relationships with unprecedented precision. As a result, they are awash with data....
Read MoreExtracted 17NOV2011 from http://www.outsourcingleadership.com/knowledgebase/whitepapers/renegotiation-... As the outsourcing market matures, technological developments, standardization, heightened competition and benchmarking are pushing outsourci...
Read MoreExtracted 17NOV2011 from http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/08/15/how-outsourcing-wil... [Dr. Elizabeth Irons shares her experiences and frustrations, and those of many other individuals and organizations, in crossing the boundari...
Read MoreExtracted 17NOV2011 from http://tinyurl.com/6srrcxs In this very nice 20-minute video, Chartbeat’s CEO Tony Haile talks about "replacing complex future predictions with simpler ones for right now, and looking at data as an environment instead of a...
Read MoreExtracted 16NOV2011 from http://www.backbaycommunications.com/sites/all/files/backbay/PrivateEquityBra... Executive Summary 70 percent of survey respondents considered a strong brand to be “very important” for a private equity firm, while 29 perce...
Read MoreExtracted 16NOV2011 from http://www.thinkers50.com/awards/2011 2011 Ranking -- Name -- (2009 Rank) -- Special Recognition Clayton Christensen (28) -- Winner: 2011 Thinkers50 Innovation Award W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne (5) -- Winner: 2011 Thinke...
Read MoreExtracted 15NOV2011 from http://tinyurl.com/cxdmmk7 Experience has shown that risk and reward are inter-related and businesses cannot maximise reward (Shareholder Value) without taking a calculated risk. The art and science of calculating risk is ...
Read MoreExtracted 15NOV2011 from http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2011/11/10/advanced-analytics-can-improve-... ...commercial insurers today are typically still relying on rule- and grid-based approaches to determine when to offer customers complementar...
Read MoreExtracted 15NOV2011 from http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2011/04/04/predictive-analytics-a-powerful... Predictive analytics is the process of analyzing historic and current data and generating a statistical model to help predict future outcomes...
Read MoreExtracted 15NOV2011 from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576598942105167646.html#printMode In July, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency began exploring the possibility of a $42 million effort to detect o...
Read MoreExtracted 15NOV2011 from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576598942105167646.htm... Though the practice is still experimental, Twitter data already have become a key variable in behavioral finance investment formulas. "The he...
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