Word: focusing
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...been buffeted by external winds. India's currency has appreciated 12% against the dollar this year, hitting profits, and the subprime-mortgage crisis is forcing U.S. banks, among Infosys' biggest customers, to tighten their belts. Infosys has handled those problems by increasing salaries, boosting currency hedging and shifting its focus slightly to Europe and developing markets like South America...
...keep growing while retaining its founding principles, Infosys decided it needed bigger changes. In late October the company announced a restructuring that will divide Infosys into industry units (e.g., banking and energy) and horizontal units focusing on issues like infrastructure that cut across industries. Infosys hopes that the new structure will drive the spirit of consensus-based decision making deeper into the company. Each division will have its own decision-making council, with at least one employee under 30, while the team at the top may eventually double. As well as sharpening Infosys' customer focus, "the restructuring is also partly...
...Fearing a second round of racism charges, the top tier made sure to show up to the Univision debate last Sunday. Dubbed in Spanish, the debate intended to focus on “Hispanic issues” and ended up being one hour-and-a-half echo...
...have more to do with Barack Obama's chances of becoming President than anyone besides the candidate himself. That may sound like a stretch, but Blake has the all-important job of bringing in new Iowa voters to caucus for the Illinois Senator. And while some campaigns may focus most of their efforts on one or two constituencies - the way John Kerry so successfully courted military veterans in 2004 - Obama is spending an unprecedented amount of money and effort to turn out a wide cross section of new caucus-goers...
...since Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy in the 1960s had any Democrat of national stature addressed the subject with the focus that Edwards gave it. He helped start a poverty center at the University of North Carolina, wrote a book about it and, when the time came to launch his next presidential campaign, chose hurricane-ravaged New Orleans as the place to do so. There are differences in style and substance this time around. In his newer, more populist incarnation, Edwards 2.0 has hammered away not only at President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and the special...