We believe Wal-Mart's efforts to build its presence in India could be a key contributor to its future growth, especially since the Indian retail market is expected to witness impressive growth in the coming years.

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 19:27

Now that my new book, Success as a Mediator for Dummies is about to launch, mail, email, carrier pigeons and messages in bottles arrive at my door regularly, seeking "how to" advice for writing a Dummies book.

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:55

? It's short. That's the first thing I noticed about the recently published ANDYs Shortlist. See it in full here: http://www.andyawards.com/shortlists/2012-andy-shortlist-. The ANDYs, staged by the Advertising Club of , is the first show of the rather robust advertising awards season. The Shortlist comprises just over 130 pieces from all over the world. Culled from ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:55

It all sounds rather dramatic, doesn?t it? A commentator admits to error and reverses a previously held opinion, what larks, what high jinks! However, as M?Lord Keynes once pointed out when the facts change it is necessary to at least reconsider one?s views and thus possibly alter one?s conclusions to fit those new facts. I?ve ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:55

The pet food industry has historically spent more on research and development (R&D) than the electric power industry (as a percentage of net sales). To make matters worse, the electric power industry has similarly underinvested in the grid infrastructure. In 2005, the U.S. Navy?s Inspector General urged the military to reduce reliance on the private ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:55

This is an interesting way of looking at the whole cost issue around solar panels and solar power prices. I?m not sure that I entirely believe it but it is an interesting way of looking at it: Solar panel prices, which have fallen 80 percent in the past three years, can fall further because the ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:55

These numbers are for the UK but they illustrate a trend that is going on in all of the advanced countries: *??6bn ? Online spending in the UK in 2004 *??23bn ? Online spending in the UK 2010 *??1.3 bn ? Level of m-commerce in the UK 2011 *??19bn ? predicted level of m-commerce in ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:53

In case you hadn?t noticed, a lot of Americans are in jail. "Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today," writes the??New Yorker's Adam Gopnik. "Over all, there are now more people under 'correctional supervision' in America ? more than 6??million ? than were in ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:43

???????????????'Big Data' is having its 15-minutes of fame. It is the hot term referring to the increasingly large datasets of information being amassed as a result of our social, mobile, and digital world. In the past 12-months, the use of the term in the U.S. has increased 1,211% on the internet. Lack of data is ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 18:42

It?s like applying instant replay?to your entire life. You have habits you realize you need to change?eating too much, drinking too much, or not exercising enough?and you take a day out of your life and examine it, blow by blow, to find the ?pressure? points where you let your brain go on auto-pilot. Charles Duhigg?s ...

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 17:57