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What is the biggest challenge facing your own business this year?

on December 4, 2017 | Leave a comment
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“Neurosurgery has high-tech, rapidly advancing demands in terms of capital equipment, supplies and staffing — making it expensive — and there is substantial resistance to absorbing that cost.  Fighting for insurance coverage for many of my procedures and supplies is a matter of attempting to induce a major cultural change in the community with regard to the inevitable rise in cost associated with safely providing such services.”

Dr. David Weingarten

Neurosurgeon and president
The Weingarten Institute for
Neuroscience

 

“The biggest challenge facing our business in the next year is the uncertainty of our Base Operations Support Services Contract. The recent award of the follow-on BOSC to Fluor Federal Solutions was unexpected and caught everyone unawares. We have protested that award. Until the protest has been fully resolved, our business future is uncertain.”

Wayne Cornell

President and CEO

DZSP 21 LLC

 

“The Department of Labor’s Fiduciary Rule, which essentially expands the definition of an “investment advice fiduciary” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and will require financial advisors to put the best interests of their clients ahead of their own, and eliminate any potential conflict of interest. This will provide an added layer of protection so that investors can feel that they are getting the best possible investment advice. The challenges ahead will include implementing new processes to remain in full compliance.”

Sophie Brindejonc

Financial advisor
Asia Pacific Financial Management Group 

 

 

“The biggest challenge that I had this year was being able to introduce new updates for Stroll at the appropriate time. We have a lot of plans for new features and updates, but we don’t want to overwhelm the market by releasing them too quickly.”

Amit Sachdev 

CEO and founder

Stroll Guam

 

 

“Uncertainties of the (Japanese) tourist market. The Japanese seem to be a lot more worried about North Korean threats than the South Koreans. I hope with more accurate messages than they have been receiving from their media, we can show them that Guam is safe and it is business as usual.”

Amir Alavi

General and operations manager

The Plaza Shopping Center

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