Business Management

ForeScout doubles NAC management reach.
The metrics it gathers can be fed to security information management platforms as well.

CounterACT now enforces access control at the switch port level without using 802.1x or VLANs. Instead, the device can invoke Layer 3 or 4 access control lists (ACL) at the switch port. This enables quarantining devices before they are admitted to the network at all, so it is unnecessary to provision remediation or guest VLANs to isolate non-compliant endpoints. The ACLs control where they are allowed to go.

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PhoneSuite Continues to Exceed Expectations for Property.
PhoneSuite immediately met and exceeded the needs of Noble Hospitality and continues to do so for many property management companies in North America.

As an award-winning Euro-American property management company, Noble recently installed PhoneSuite systems in a Comfort Inn in Kansas, a Holiday Inn in Arkansas, and a Ramada Inn in Colorado, with plans to add the products to more of its properties in the near future.

‘Our goal has always been to provide our properties with a telephone solution that caters to our unique hotel needs, yet do it at an affordable price,’ said Mark Stumm, COO of Noble Hospitality. ‘PhoneSuite has been able to adapt to all our individual needs. From beginning to end, they have been very accommodating.’

PhoneSuite”s engineers worked closely with Noble Hospitality to make sure its products delivered a system that is easy to manage and monitor at the property level.more

Rivanna Resort tees up for Virginia charities.
Instruction will cover the complete swing, short game skills, four rounds of golf, rules and etiquette as well as on-course management and strategy needed to compete at the collegiate level. The daily schedule for the camp/school is 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., with each group of students assigned a personal coach and counselor from the Professional Golf Management internship program.

For more information: Wintergreen Golf Academy at 325-8251, or visit www.wintergreenresort.com.

Speaking of junior golfers…

Rivanna Resort & Golf Club will host Tuesday junior clinics throughout the month of June.

There will be five clinics in June, all scheduled from 1 p.m. until 2:30 p.m., with each clinic focusing on a different phase of the game: putting/chipping on June 9; short and mid-irons on the 16th; long irons and hybrids on the 23; also on the course training on the 23rd; and on the course training on June 30.more

Mobile Choice Awards 2008.
Responsible for all new business development / customer acquisition activities within target market, management of three internal account managers and two product specialists, responsibility for product ranging & commercial negotiations with all network/ retail customers. This will be in the specialist and non-specialist arena e.g. CPW, P4U, Network, Retail and a target market of Tesco, JS etc. Working with IPP & PC Systems teams to ensure that vendor product forecasts and inventory levels are in line with customer requirements and business KPI”s Management of weekly P&L forecasts and detailed sales/ margin reporting by customer.Key Attributes / Core Competencies required include : Experienced Sales/ Channel Manager with a proven track record of both business development and account management within blue chip customers.more

St. Johns Water Management District green-lights Yankee Lake.
West Volusians speak up - Mark Johns, in orange shirt, Raymond Johns and Randall Johns of the DeLand area let the St. Johns Water Management District know what they think about plans to tap the St. Johns River. They attended a special hearing of the Water Management executive board in Palatka Monday. So did many other individuals, and members of 60 organizations - around 300 people, in all.

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Biotec expands its management team.
PHARMACEUTICALS firm Biotec Services International has expanded its management team as the company takes advantage of record sales.

Bridgend-based Biotec has recruited Ravi Nalliah from Broomfield & Alexander as financial controller and Ed Lewis is joining the company”s operations team as senior project manager.

The senior management at Biotec decided that a financial controller was required after the company experienced massive expansion and growth last year.

In 2008, Biotec”s sales record exceeded all expectations, resulting in a turnover in excess of £3m, with a 140% increase in export sales and a 152% increase in US sales – and more than 100% increase in revenue.

Mr Nalliah held the position of corporate finance manager at Broomfield & Alexander and his role included formulating strategic business plans and financial projections for clients, assisting with credit control, cash flow management, budgeting and restructuring and reviewing the management of accounts as well as managing the corporate finance department.more

Domino”s Management Responds To Youtube Fiasco.
Domino”s Pizza USA President Patrick Doyle responds to the Youtube video in which a couple of employees posted a video showing how they doctor food before serving.

The Ann Arbor, MI-based pizza chain is trying to convey that the video was a hoax. It is a thoughtful approach. Doyle says they had to close the store in North Carolina, that an arrest warrant has been sworn out for the employees.

But Doyle does admit that the event had done big damage to the company”s brand.

One criticism: Mr. Doyle…who told you not to look at the camera?

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Twelve major brands that won”t survive 2009.
A number of well-known brands disappeared in the last year due to economic forces and bad management. Circuit City, Aloha Airlines, and Washington Mutual come to mind as examples.

24/7 Wall St. examined 100 large brands that are facing troubled futures. The analysis included records for those brands that are public companies or part of public companies.

The 12 major brands most likely to disappear in 2009:

Avis Borders Crocs Saturn Esquire Magazine Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic Architectural Digest Chrysler Eddie Bauer Palm AIG United, American or US Air

Full details and explanations are available at 24/7 Wall Street.

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Algorithms everywhere: Can IBM automate business decisions?.
Big Blue talked about the ‘information journey,’ fact-based enterprises and nudging out gut calls in everyday management for decisions based on hard, cold facts. But when you boil it all down, Big Blue is talking about providing a bag of algorithms that will automate many of your business decisions.

Sitting through IBM”s series of presentationsTuesday on how we”ll all work for fact-based enterprises in the future left me with a few nagging questions (with a dearth of concrete answers): What”s the role of intuition and gut calls in management? Are we all becoming quant black boxes of management? Can we see around corners for real? What”s the prototype of a fact based enterprise? How long will this journey take and what does the end state look like?

The answers after a few rounds with IBM execs: Intuition will still matter, but for the bigger decisions.more