Unfortunately, the convergence of managers' and shareholders' interests is also recognized by the firms' debtholders and leads to a second source of conflict.
"It's the perfect product to start convergence imagery," says Ed Volkwein Ed Volkwein, Philips brand manager for North America.
And some managers regard the hunt for convergence as a distraction.
Mr. Feagin, the manager at BeloZro Visual Energy, says an unwitting convergence of old and new is occurring in the city, and within the confines of Cobo Center.
The adopted mechanism to balance exploration and exploitation (see Section 'Link manager agents') does not have a convergence guarantee.
"We're in the middle of a real convergence of biology and information technology," said Caroline Kovac, general manager of IBM Life Sciences.
"From an investment point of view, the really interesting places in terms of convergence are further east: Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania," said Jerome Booth, a fund manager at Ashmore Investment Management in London, a specialist in emerging-markets portfolios.
"Customers can now enhance their investment in Lotus, and participate in the convergence of the data and document worlds," said Mark Bregman, general manager for I.B.M.'s pervasive computing group.
The "Mac D" or Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator is the brainchild of Gerald Appel, a money manager in Great Neck, N.Y., who developed this versatile trend barometer in 1977.
Our link manager agent model is limited with relation to the convergence of the adopted learning mechanism.
