David Olgivie talks sport
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- David Olgivie talks sport
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- Netherlands Corporate News – Figleaves.com opteert voor Stibo…
David Olgivie talks sport
Wanganui Chronicle – Sep 13, 2005
There’s a terrible lot of information to come out of the NZRFU yet about how the bottom division will be funded ‘ and certainly very little of that will come from gate receipts, unless there’s some leeway given to the selection of players. And there is, apparently, a move by next year’s division one unions to change the date of players having to be in their union’s club competitions from May 1 to June 1. It’s June 1 now for home-grown players who have been overseas, but May 1 for all others. An extra month might just allow one or two extra players per union to get into play and become crowd-pullers. +++++ Looking forward to October 2, and the NPC rugby match with unbeaten Hawke’s Bay, and a look at the management team for the Bay this year gives a hint as to why things are going so well. New coach Brendon Ratcliffe used to head the New Zealand Rugby Football Union’s academy structure, firstly in Wellington and then at Massey University. From that point he joined ousted All Black coach Wayne Smith at Northampton, where Ratcliffe was assistant coach for three years.
Gap’s sites ‘leapfrog’ e-commerce rivals
International Herald Tribune – Sep 13, 2005
Gap did pay software vendors for peripheral Web site and back-office programs. The go-it-alone approach has raised as many eyebrows as the decision to shut down the sites. Johnson of Forrester said Gap's home-grown strategy "completely flies in the face of every retail technology trend out there. "But Lenk said the company had little choice. "We looked at the things we wanted to do, and the scale at which we wanted to do them, and quickly came to the conclusion that the only way to ensure success was to go custom," he said. One advantage of building the systems without the help of vendors is that the Gap Web sites may keep the competitive advantages of their new features longer than they would have otherwise, because the people who built the features work for the company. Still, e-commerce technologists pride themselves on their innovative abilities, and Gap's new features could appear on its rivals' sites with unsettling speed and perhaps improved reliability.
Netherlands Corporate News – Figleaves.com opteert voor Stibo…
Netherlands Corporate News – Netherlands Corporate News (persbericht) – Sep 13, 2005
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