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CATAAlliance — The Social Media paradigm is now extending to the funding of start-up companies, according to Canada’s largest high-tech organization, and Canada is in danger of falling behind the US in enabling small business to access capital. CATA has launched an advocacy Campaign to encourage provincial securities legislators to adopt approaches similar to the HR 2930 US Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act. Tech Entrepreneur, Peter Andrews, CATA Director & Regional Director, Corum Group Ltd., interviewed by CATA CEO, John Reid. For background and full details please view at this URL: www.cata.ca
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THE CONTEST! Campaign link: www.indiegogo.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Listen the album’s preview on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com About the project Hi guys! we are Shide and we’re an indipendent italian rock band! Shide was born in 2001 and from that the line up is changed so many times…as the music genre! The present video is to ask you for something that´s vital to us! We began work on our first release album in August 2009. We´ve worked hard these past two years perfecting the sound to achieve today´s result. There are some samples we´ve embedded for you to listen just for this campaign. We’re finally ready to complete the project, but are in need of procuring additional funding to make it happen. We’ve been working in some great studio in Conversano, BA Italy with top gear, engineers and with the Michael C. Ross consulence (LA engineer producer of world famous artists like Christina Aguilera, Vanessa Carlton and many other). Our album will feature anywhere between 11 and 13 tracks (will be also two cover) of our best songs. We´ve also produced our first video that proved to be a massive amount of work we´re very proud of today. For this we must thank the guys from Basix Communication and all of our friends that gave us an hand. The result it´s amazing. Now we are ready for our official debut but we´re short on resources to print and promote our cd. What we´re asking you is to buy our cd in advance so we can put the money together to have it printed. We will be …

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New White Paper – How to Leverage Longer Planning Horizons in Sales and Operations Planning / Integrated Business Planning

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New London, NH (PRWEB) February 24, 2012

Oliver Wight Americas, Inc. has released its newest white paper, How to Leverage Longer Planning Horizons in Sales and Operations Planning / Integrated Business Planning.

George Palmatier and Colleen Crum, Oliver Wight principals with decades of practitioner experience, share their insights into improving Sales and Operations (S&OP) Planning and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) by applying a rolling planning horizon of 24 months or longer.

The authors contrast S&OP backward-looking reporting and analysis with the dynamic advantages of IBP, which applies decision-supporting orientation based on future-focused scenario planning. Palmatier and Crum provide an executive overview of IBP and then outline why moving to a longer planning horizon is a natural step when transitioning from S&OP to IBP.

The paper explains how implementing longer planning horizons with IBP more effectively integrates operational and financial management. Palmatier and Crum detail why longer planning horizons with IBP provide greater visibility and early identification of gaps between the annual bottom-up plan and top-down strategic goals. This vital data empowers the leadership team to take timely action to close the gaps and more easily adapt within a volatile global economy.

About Oliver Wight

Oliver Wight Americas – thought leaders and hands-on practitioners for over 40 years. As a global business management consulting and education firm, the company specializes in helping organizations work smarter, faster, and better than their competitors. Its principals are seasoned professionals who have real-world manufacturing experience and transfer this knowledge throughout an organization, providing tools to help organizations internalize that knowledge and achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The largest world-wide consultancy of its type, Oliver Wight has offices throughout Europe, North and South America, and the Asia/Pacific Region. For more information, please visit http://www.OliverWight-Americas.com.

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In this 10 minute video, Sarah Lord, Certified and Chartered Financial Planner with Killik & Co, examines the key areas for investors to consider as the end of the 2011/12 tax year approaches including; Capital Gains Tax, ISAs, Pensions, Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and Enterprise Investment Schemes (EISs) and Inheritance Tax Planning. If you would like to speak to someone about your finances before the end of the tax year, please call your Broker or if you are new to Killik & Co, call Tor Floanes on 020 7337 0777.
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Calculate accurate premium via using family health insurance quotes

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The family medical policyis widely available online. You can easily get these plans via using quote comparison facility.

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