NEW ZEALAND'S biggest customer, supplier and investor is Australia, which is also the owner of its biggest banks.
Mr. McNealy's company is a customer, supplier and financial partner of General Electric, while Mr. Fresco is a former vice chairman.
Microsoft's chairman and, more importantly for this crowd, its chief software architect, was making his first visit to India's technology capital, where his example has long provided inspiration, and his company has been a key customer, supplier, and partner.
We investigate the cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) of links across firms for the following linkages: customer, supplier, licensee, licensor, and strategic alliance.
The government's role as deal maker and deal breaker in infrastructure investments stems from its role as financier, customer, supplier, competitor, and/or regulator.
For example, a modern performance management system computes profitability by customer, supplier, region, season, event and so on, so that the true nature of the value-creating machine can be understood.
But now the Internet shows signs of becoming an electronic bazaar that has taken the bloom off many a customer-supplier romance.
Further education loans, along with an expansion into employer-funded provision and higher education, has shifted colleges towards more of a customer-supplier model.
As some observers have pointed out, the rage of India's middle class suggests that it is beginning to play the role that other middle classes have historically played: harboring a new customer-supplier expectation of government as "providing services for which they pay with their tax money," as Vinay Sitapati put it in The Indian Express.
They signal to competitors that customers, suppliers and good staff are up for grabs.
He must protect the company's reputation with customers, suppliers, journalists and non-governmental organisations.
