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The new successor most recently served as senior vice president of Finance for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated.

As a leading innovative company that produces products across diverse markets, 3M needed an operating system that allowed its employees to be productive, while at the same time tightening network security and reducing costs of PC management.

Consumer products executives have anopportunity to realize competitive advantage through a new set of metrics thatare tailored toward their specific organizational structure, strategy and goals.

By enabling accelerated product innovation and time-to-market, 3M aims to realize its strategic business objectives, augment production capacity, enhance global capabilities and rationalize costs.

The solution will eventually scale across Hanesbrands' extended value chain, delivering cross-departmental sales insights and analytics to hundreds of business practitioners.

Already on the forefront of sustainability, Avon has set a goal of further lowering energy consumption per-unit-produced an additional 10 percent by 2012.

This week, IBM announced plans to acquire Netezza, a leader in data warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances, for $1.7 billion. Are these companies well matched? And how is the acquisition going to impact the competitive data warehousing landscape? Here, bloggers and industry experts share their thoughts in this big deal.

The solution was up and running in just six weeks to centralize and manage recipes, specifications, test procedures, etc.