“The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.” ProblemLevelsCompanyInformationDemandHighestInnovationRateSolveClientsSpectrumAnalyticsRate Of Change Author:Mike McGavick
“It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.” GivingImportantCompanyInformationFactorsCommoditySecrecyConvenient Author:Marc Rich
“We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.” CompanyBreakInformationPromiseUnfairDeceptivePersonal Information Author:Marc Rotenberg
“Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that would help companies conduct business with each other in an automated fashion. The idea was that companies could publish how they wanted to interact, and other companies could find that information and use it to establish a relationship.” IdeasHelpingUseWantedCompanyVisionFashionInformationStandardsOriginalsPublishRelics Author:Michael Bloomberg
“The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.” PeopleDifferencesCompanySituationInformationConcernNegativeReactionsCommand Book:The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders Source: The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders
“Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems.” HandsTodayTogetherIndividualCompanyTechnologyInformationComputerDollarsCustomersAidsChainsOperationsTiesLinksCommerceDisputesBackboneInformation TechnologyEuroSupply ChainComputer Systems Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.” PeopleThinkingCompanyEconomyInformationSourcePulse Author:Steve Ballmer
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises.” SpiritualGrowthCompanyTechnologyEconomyRichConditionsInformationRevolutionSmartEnterpriseInheritanceGlobal Economy Author:Ted Malloch
“It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.” UsedCompanyEconomyInformationDepthScalesUsed To BeBusiness SuccessBreadth Author:Tucker Max
“Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be described by a single number. Intuitively we understand that risk varies from investment to investment: a government bond is not as risky as the stock of a high-technology company. But investments do not provide information about their risks the way food packages provide nutritional data.” WayEndsGovernmentNumbersCompanyTechnologyRiskInformationReturnInvestmentInvestingDataPackagesVaryHigh Technology Author:Seth Klarman
“To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.” FirstsDifferentNumbersCompanyInformationPolicyJudgmentSafetyInvestmentInvestingStrikesStakesAdequateGambleLarge NumbersDiversificationGood JudgmentTravestySafety First Author:John Maynard Keynes
“I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my own skin, you know what I mean? Not share so somebody doesn't take your job, I've never had that kind of insecurity. I also had a management company, too, so we were always one of those companies that shared information with our artists. Whatever they wanted to know, as much as they wanted to know, they could know.” KnowsKindMeanPersonsWantedJobsArtistMy OwnCompanyShareInformationSkinsManagementSakeInsecurityHorde Author:Queen Latifah
“The Internet moves us closer to "perfect information" on markets. Individuals and companies alike can buy and sell across borders and jurisdictions wherever they find the best match of supply and demand.” MovingIndividualPerfectCompanyInformationInternetDemandSellsBordersJurisdictionSupply And Demand Author:Milton Friedman
“Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and other interested people need. Non-governmental organizations don't have that legal power and to me, that's what imposes substantial limitiations on how far we can go with trying to keep corporations accountable though non-governmental measures.” PeopleNeedsTryingGovernmentBusinessCompanyInformationOrganizationWorkersConsumersCorporationsRequirementsInspectors Author:Joel Bakan
“I'm not sure how it is in America, but for what I can say about Germany, most people give their information willingly to anyone who asks for it such as companies like Google. We just don't question it anymore.” PeopleGivingI CanAmericaAsksCompanyInformationNot SureGermanyGoogle Author:Christian Schwochow
“I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.” ThinkingWantTryingKindCompanySuccessfulInformationBuiltCustomersApplesValleysComplacencyProminentSiliconSilicon ValleySuccessful CompanyPersonal Information Author:Tim Cook
“I think maybe 50 years ago people and businesses felt like they had to choose between maximizing profits and making customers happy or making employees happy, and I think we're actually living in a special time where everyone's hyperconnected, whether through Twitter or blogs and so on. Information travels so quickly that it's actually possible to have it all, to make customers happy through customer service, to make employees happy through strong company cultures, and have that actually drive growth and profits.” PeopleThinkingYearsCultureStrongFeltGrowthCompanySpecialInformationYears AgoProfitCustomersEmployeeBlogsCompany CultureMaximizingSpecial TimesActually Living Author:Tony Hsieh