"C.E.O.'s want their chief procurement officers to set up external marketplaces that increase the company's wealth, and not all the old-time C.P.O.'s are really up to that challenge," said Thomas H. Slaight, a vice president at the consulting firm A. T. Kearney.
It is not that nonprofits and others engaged in strategic planning completely fail to consider external factors in their marketplaces but maybe that we examine the big issues (e.g., technology, community becoming virtual as well as literal) at a distance instead of close-up and as they relate to our very survival and ability to deliver on mission.
As with the external narcotic industry, the university marketplace is going through huge changes.
In addition to Lovely's posting platform, Lovely Pro, Lovely obtains listings by partnering with over 70 external providers to populate its marketplace with rental listings.
What we have not been able to get rid of are the external pressures from government funding and the academic marketplace".
My self as it was, unimproved upon by external aids, unencumbered by the dictates of the marketplace, seemed, briefly enough, sufficient unto itself..
But beneath all these external factors is the simple seesaw of the marketplace: For every person who buys oil at $130 a barrel, there must be another person willing to sell at that price — and, odds are, at least one of them will be a speculator.
External transparency is helping the public and the marketplace understand what every company's situation is.
Those PaaS providers will then push those apps to an internal marketplace or the any number of external ones out there.
In order to do well in the "core" sustainability areas of workplace, marketplace and environment, companies must adopt an external outlook and understand the social and environmental issues of most relevance to their business.
