His little-noticed re-engineering of the bank might seem more suited to a carmaker than a financial institution: it is largely about reducing the cost of "manufacturing" (ie, selling and processing) the bank's various financial products.
Harvested every three months, the bright, green leaves are sold for processing into coca paste, the gummy base for cocaine.
Farmers prefer pigs to reach 270 pounds on average before they're sold to processing facilities, but heat-stressed pigs haven't been reaching that ideal weight in time for the end of summer slaughter.
In the fall of 1993 their Card Capture Services Inc. (CCS) was pulling in modest revenues of $670,000, selling credit card processing machines to restaurants, grocers and department stores in Portland, Ore.
The functionality of the software is what sold, and with processing power steadily increasing and hardware falling in price, regular corporate hardware refresh cycles took care of the problem.
WHEN I was in seventh grade, my father sold his word processing company in Washington, D.C. My parents always wanted to live on a boat in retirement, and I was the last child at home, so it was feasible.
From there I went to Wang, selling data processing systems, then to Cambex, which sells disk drives and memory.
Kodak could also have trouble selling document processing services, predicted Gilbert J. Hatch, the president of the Production Systems Group at Xerox.
This was democracy: producers running everything themselves, the selling, the processing and, most of all, the marketing.
