eTalks – The Secrets of Food Marketing

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eTalks – The Secrets of Food Marketing This is a 6:58 minutes video about marketing and how they manage the behavior in their favor for achieving their goals. The conclusion is ingenious: the power of willful ignorance cannot be overstated. On my side I continue trying to eat as much organic food from local people … Read more

IT Portfolio manager, role and responsibilities

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The role Monitoring and reporting on the various accounts under the portfolio. The primary focus is on the financial management (P & L Owner and Financial Forecasting) of these accounts and the delivery is done aligned successfully (projects, services and customer satisfaction). Enable Growth of Applications business, cross & up sell offerings in existing and … Read more

Manufacturing sub-groups

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I have been reading a report from IDC related to the manufacturing industry, and one of the things, I liked was the categorization done based on what it is that drives the cadence of the business and the associated supply chain. These sub-groups are: Asset – oriented value chains are characterized by large investments in … Read more

Supply chain and the demand headache

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Supply chain organizations can benefit from greater visibility into the cadence of  demand. The problem is that the cadence of the demand is sometimes not clear or you cannot build a demand pattern to take advantage. By this reason, you can find businesses that defend the idea of using demand signals to run production strategies, … Read more

Empty inbox

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I use the inbox as a to-do list for all e-mails I have to do something. I have another to-do lists, but this takes so much of the weekly activities. I fight against it as so much people do, and I organize my agenda based on objectives, being the e-mail as something that happens and … Read more

General Electric steps

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A collection of news to follow-up merge and acquisitions of GE. 2014 November, 5th: GE acquires Alstom energy, in reality the Business Unit that really makes sense for GE ($13.5 billion). November, 6th: GE Money Bank AB (Nordics) sold to Santander Consumer Finance S.A for ±700m€. 2015 January: GE sells equity business, to focus on industrial activities. … Read more