Word: sectored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Long before IBM had established much credibility as an objective adviser, Rometty had created a lucrative consulting division for the insurance sector. More recently, she helped land a $4 billion, seven-year deal with American Express, which will rely on IBM to provide IT on a pay-as-you-go "utility" basis. She has also been busy trying to help close another $5 billion outsourcing deal with J.P. Morgan Chase. "She has a great ability to gain the confidence of executives, including CEOs," says her boss, Doug Elix, head of Global Services. Rometty is already winning admirers...
...force. They are, in other words, still the way the nation sells things. And they are woefully unproductive, generating only 19% of the output of the average U.S. store. That pathetic performance, combined with the mom-and-pops' large share of the labor force, pulls Japan's total retailing-sector productivity down to just half that...
...farmers, truckers and state employees fizzled. In the worried and waffling camp are Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - who has hesitated on promises to free up the labor market - and Greek leader Costas Simitis, who risks seeing his country's hard-won fiscal stability damaged by demands from public sector workers. Here's a look at four leaders standing nose-to-nose with the unions. UNITED KINGDOM It's an awkward straddle: a Labour government - traditional champion of working people - shoving more money into public services yet struggling to keep a lid on what the workers in those services...
...cabinet department? Conservatives are torn on the creation of this department because it forces them to choose between protection against terrorism and small government, according to Chris J. Burger, a spokesperson for the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. “If the private sector were able to solve these problems, that would be great, but this is something we have to do,” he said...
...user in September was $14.25, less than half the level of 1999 and far lower than the $60 to $80 users pay in the U.S. and Japan. That translates into lower overall profitability, and once-bullish analysts are growing more cautious about the prospects for China's mobile sector. Both CSFB and Goldman Sachs recently downgraded shares in China Mobile and China Unicom, which have fallen 21% and 34% respectively on the New York Stock Exchange this year...