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Sales Forecasting as a Competitive Advantage

Can sales forecasting be a competitive advantage in your sales team operations? It can if you adopt the principles we explain in our Sales Probability and Process Management theory. Most people use sales forecasting as a tool for estimating future income, without a great deal of confidence it has to be said. They’ll also use [...]

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Want to know all about Sales Management? – Well you’re in the right place for real insight with individual tutorials costing less than cup of coffee and which you can read in the time it takes to drink your chosen brew. Download these tutorials now and get started on perhaps the biggest competitive advantage you [...]

What predicts mortality in Parkinson disease?

Articles What predicts mortality in Parkinson disease? A prospective population-based long-term study E.B. Forsaa, MD, J.P. Larsen, MD, PhD, T. Wentzel-Larsen, MSc and G. Alves, MD, PhD + Author Affiliations From the Norwegian Center for Movement Disorders (E.B.F., J.P.L., G.A.) and Department of Neurology (E.B.F., G.A.), Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger; and Center for Clinical Research [...]

Application for iPhone may help monitor Parkinson’s disease

Enlarge GTRI research scientists Robert Delano (left) and Brian Parise developed iTrem as a tool that could potentially benefit people with Parkinson’s disease. It takes advantage of accelerometers built into the iPhone. (Credit: Gary Meek) (Medical Xpress) — Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) have developed a novel iPhone application that may enable [...]

Exercise linked to reducing risk of Alzheimer’s – Latest News, Health – Independent.ie

Exercise increases levels of a brain molecule that may protect against Alzheimer’s disease, research has shown. Scientists believe the protein PGC-1alpha could open the door to new ways of treating Alzheimer’s. The protein has metabolic effects that also appear to guard against type-2 diabetes. Researchers studied brain samples from dead Alzheimer’s patients and compared them [...]

Neurology care ‘patchy and inefficient’ | Society | guardian.co.uk

The NHS is failing to provide proper care for up to 10 million Britons who have a neurological condition such as migraine, multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease, physicians warn in a report. Too many patients requiring specialist attention do not get to see a neurologist, while badly organised services may mean that some people’s treatment [...]

Silver surfers: You have 65+ friends – Features, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent

How many friends do I have?” asks Jean, scrolling down the screen bearing the familiar blue logo. She only learned to use Facebook three weeks ago but already logs in every night, while fellow residents at Bampfylde Place sheltered housing watch Coronation Street. “Eleven – is that all?” she cries. Jean, 65, sits alongside her [...]

Study suggests 1 in 7 UK grandparents use Facebook – TNW UK

A new study suggests that a fifth of all grandparents in the UK use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Of that fifth, almost three quarters said that they use Facebook, a third use Twitter and almost 10% were on LinkedIn. As reported in today’s Telegraph, MyVoucherCodes.co.uk carried out the survey from [...]

5 Android apps that should be on every smartphone | ZDNet

I may be hard on Google for the mess that it has created with Android Honeycomb tablets, but on the smartphone front Android is still going strong. That is with good reason, Android phones are as good as anything on the market, and made even better with the right apps installed. No matter if you [...]