Word: sap
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...development behind in Paris. Other entrepreneurs are thinking even more broadly. Take Arisem, a knowledge management company based in Paris. It told potential investors in a prospectus handed out during the Tech Tour that it wants to emulate France?s Vivendi Universal for its corporate strategy, Germany?s SAP for its business model, Cisco for its human relations and talent management and Yahoo for its speed in getting products to market...
Hasso Plattner SAP Co-chairman and CEO 57, German www.sap.com...
...pain looks likely to spread to other industries as corporate profits get hit. Many companies, such as Intel and United Technologies, are bracing for the call-up of the Reserves, which will sap those organizations of expertise that isn't easily replaced. And new, tougher security measures for cargo at airports, shipping ports and border crossings could disrupt the just-in-time supply chain that has been one of the key accelerators of growth during the past decade. Companies could be forced to carry higher, costlier levels of inventory. With critical parts delayed at the U.S.-Canada border, Ford, General...
...What falls away are the events in the middle: Look for a decrease in the number of round-tables with members of Congress and business leaders and sports teams. The White House believes those kinds of events create a muddy mix of messages and sap the energy of the President and his staff. "You have several different events a day and the president and staff have to get up for each of them," says one aide. "By the end it?s all a blur." Other White House aides believe that the number of events wears Bush down, accounting for some...
...permanent. The Big Lie is that it costs only $1.35 trillion. Since the real cost is much greater, future Administrations--and Congresses--will have to deal with a political nightmare: the real possibility of deficit spending a decade from now as baby boomers begin to retire en masse and sap the Social Security and Medicare systems...