Tuesday, 08 February, 2005

Outlook For Mexican Politics, Economics In 2005 Rolling Assumptions: The main parties will become increasingly preoccupied with nominations for the 2006 presidential race, which will lead to high levels of infighting. The economy will grow by 3.5% to 4.2%, slightly less than in 2004. There is risk that political instability could undermine confidence and reduce growth. The nomination process will reduce the willingness of opposition parties to negotiate with the government, making the outlook even more negative for key structural reforms. 10:47:12 PM    comment []

Competition Is Forever ichael Smyth, who works for a pharmaceutical company, was peering not long ago at three large diamonds perched on the tops of metal rods, balanced above pure white paper in a shop in the Manhattan diamond district. Like countless young men in the generations before his, Mr. Smyth was looking for an engagement ring. 10:44:10 PM    comment []

Dot-Com's Ad Spoof Malfunctions, Gets Play While Super Bowl advertisers like beer king Anheuser-Busch vowed to tone it down this year, GoDaddy decided to test the limits. Its spot showed a busty young woman performing for graying and repressed committee members when the strap breaks on her skimpy tank top and she experiences her own near "wardrobe malfunction." 10:29:56 PM    comment []

The McKinsey Global Survey of Business Executives , March 2004 Executives around the world believe that the global economy has improved over the past six months, but many think the improvement will level off during the next six. The economy tops more executive agendas than any other topic, although the hunt for talent and the sustainability of consumer spending are also significant issues. These are among the results of a January 2004 McKinsey Quarterly survey of some 7,300 executives—12 percent of them CEOs—from 115 countries. A summary of the results offers a barometer on senior management's top concerns. The take-away Executives regard outsourcing as beneficial, but more for entire economies than for individual companies. Asia is considered the region with the most promising growth prospects in the upcoming year, and executives agree that national policies on foreign direct investment are important to their investment decisions. Finally, executives around the globe expect that the pace of merger activity will continue to increase. 10:26:36 PM    comment []

Business Structure Basics You, like every new business owner, must have asked yourself at one time or another, "What kind of business entity is best suited for my particular operation?" For most entrepreneurs, the answer lies within two specific questions. 10:24:50 PM    comment []

GARTNER: Most enterprises fail to use Business Intelligence strategically Gartner Identifies the 'Fatal Flaws' of Business Intelligence and Advises Organisations on How to Avoid them London, UK, February 3, 2005 - Presenting at Gartner Inc.'s Business Intelligence Summit in London this week, analysts warned that although Business Intelligence (BI) offers great business opportunities, most enterprises are still failing to use it strategically. Gartner's leading BI analysts identified the most common pitfalls of BI implementations and advised an audience of more than 750 attendees how they might be avoided. 10:23:07 PM    comment []

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Fending off the pains of economic recession, small financial institutions enter a growth spurt, writes Luke Mulunda. In a country and industry smitten with size, small banking institutions rarely make financial headlines. But behind their modest operations, small financial institutions are successfully turning their size into virtue. 10:20:07 PM    comment []

Know-Center - Austria’s Competence Center for Knowledge Management The Know-Center is Austria’s Competence Center for knowledge-based Applications and Systems. The Know-Center has its core competences in the fields of information technology as enabling technologies for knowledge management and in human-oriented knowledge management. 10:18:05 PM    comment []

Mid East conducive to entrepreneurs, says green venture capital king 'The Middle East has a very rich economy, a rapidly growing national product. The atmosphere is open to entrepreneurship and there is lots of competition,' said Wintzen, who is due in Dubai this May to address 'Entrepreneurs In Dubai' – the world's biggest gathering of self-made tycoons and business leaders. 10:13:34 PM    comment []

Tampa startup bank already eying exit strategy PALM HARBOR -- While most organizers of startup community banks insist they want to remain independent, Joseph Isaacs is already thinking about giving his shareholders the option of an exit strategy. 10:12:03 PM    comment []

The US Government vs. America As far as the nationalists are concerned, to oppose the U.S. warfare state is to despise America, to condemn the atrocities committed by the Bush administration is the hate America, to reveal skepticism of foreign intervention is to reveal disloyalty to America, whereas to be a shill for all the slaughter done by the U.S. government is to be a good American. 10:06:39 PM    comment []

No Half-way MeasuresNo Half-way Measures NOW THAT the nation's pundits are in full cry over Social Security reform, we should not forget that this debate is also taking place around the world. About 130 countries are wrestling with similar demographic challenges to their retirement systems, and how they think through the possible answers to the problem may be instructive. 10:05:38 PM    comment []

Alberta shifts entire $1.5 billion cost of new power lines onto consumers EDMONTON (CP) -- Alberta consumers are on the hook to pay the entire $1.5-billion cost of building new power lines, the province's energy minister confirmed Friday.  Greg Melchin said the province rejected a 2002 Energy and Utilities Board ruling that consumers and generators should each pay half the cost of new transmission lines. 10:00:52 PM    comment []

Newspeak Anyone? George Orwell was a brilliant political novelists-Animal Farm and 1984 are his classics-and, both in his fictional and non-fictional writings, made keen note of the phenomenon of language corruption. In 1984 he even introduced the fictional dictionary of Newspeak. Among other concepts that were tortured to death in this book, produced by the ruling totalitarian regime, were, of course, "liberty" and "freedom." In Newspeak these concepts meant exactly their opposites, slavery. And there were many other cases of deliberate distortion which the fictional regime perpetrated so as to keep the population confused and conceptually disarmed. 9:53:26 PM    comment []

AUTOSNEAK - CHINA SUDDENLY #3 AUTO MAKER IN THE WORLD China is set to make six million automobiles this year, surpassing Germany as the world's number three auto maker. General Motors has plans to invest another US$3 billion over the next three years, on top of the US$2 billion invested in China since 1998. Toyota is planning to have 1,000 retail outlets by 2010; it currently has 150. 9:52:14 PM    comment []

NATIONAL ID EMERGING The overhaul of the U.S. federal intelligence system that began taking effect in December of 2004, will do more than create a new national intelligence czar and increase U.S. border patrols. It is also intended to make it more difficult for terrorists to obtain the identity cards needed to board commercial aircraft -- by requiring states to follow federal standards for the driver's licenses that they issue to their residents. In particular, the new intelligence legislation would mandate that state driving licenses would have to conform to federal standards in such areas as information shown, machine readability, and authentication methods. 9:51:11 PM    comment []

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