'Successful Italian businessmen come from cement,' says Saviano. 'Before transforming themselves into fashion models, managers, financial sharks and owners of newspapers and yachts, before all this and under all this lies cement.' The English translation, for some baffling reason, castrates the climax to this passage, which in Italian reads: cemento armato - armed cement.
Table 2 shows the treatment models managers' report their services offer, the settings in which their treatments run, and the availability of medications at their SSS.
When introducing new services and reviewing current service delivery models, managers must make decisions on what constitutes appropriate levels of staffing.
The architecture consists of user agents, information management agents, and a fuzzy model manager.
Mr. Biggs, the Ford modeling manager, explained that the carvers create these personal works in their spare time.
Mr. Greenberg, who has been married three times and has four children, acknowledges that he is no model manager.
"The key insight from GSD&M was that the brand was not being viewed as accessible enough," said Kim McCullough, model manager for Discovery at Land Rover North America.
In a business world that craves speed and flexibility, Mr. Jacobs, jovial and blunt-spoken, has also become something of a model manager himself, colleagues say.
"No one is willing to sign off on a production car looking at a picture," said Alan D. Biggs, the North American design modeling manager for the Ford Motor Company.
Jamie Ellis, a model manager at the agency IMG (which represents Upton, Stone and Bündchen), told Vogue last year that he had been seeing "designers more willing to change samples to fit a special girl" – but the emphasis there is on "special".
Model manager: It updates the architecture model using the information observed in the system via probes.
