Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Green who wrote (7876)	10/3/2000 9:19:44 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Icon Group Forecasts Labor Productivity Gaps for SILICON GRAPHICS Business Wire SAN DIEGO, Oct 2, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Icon Group today released its quarterly forecasts and benchmarks covering labor productivity at SILICON GRAPHICS (NYSE:SGI) for the coming 12 months. According to Stephanie Winters, Icon Group Marketing Director, the uniqueness of these forecasts is that they involve comparisons across borders within the same competitive sector. She explains that "first, you need to find firms competing in the same sector, then you must control for exchange rate volatility. Finally, you need to use comparable productivity standards." Icon's Methodology The methodology involves three steps. First, some 26,000 firms in over 50 countries are searched to reveal those producing similar products/services or which are in the same stage of the value chain within the same industrial classification. Then for each of these firms defined as competitors, Icon Group collects the financials and human resources figures and standardizes these into comparable categories for benchmarking. All currency effects are eliminated by standardization. In choosing the competitors, Icon Group considers only those firms with sound financial situations or those not undergoing radical restructuring, or where random volatility, mergers, or bankruptcy affects performance. Are workers at SILICON GRAPHICS productive? There is no absolute answer to this question. This report considers the extent to which labor deployment and productivity in SILICON GRAPHICS differs from competitive benchmarks. It considers the amount of labor required to operate SILICON GRAPHICS and the resulting return on this human investment. What is the ratio of short-term and long-term assets to employee? What are comparative capital-labor ratios? How different are these ratios to companies serving the same link in the value chain? What are the average sales and net profits per employee in SILICON GRAPHICS compared to competitive benchmarks? The report responds beyond traditional analyses by considering competitors at a global level and using hundreds of productivity measures, 80 benchmarks and some 30 graphs. The largest foreseen gaps for SILICON GRAPHICS include: total assets, total liabilities & shareholders equity, operating expenses - total. Link for more details (ISBN: 0597292655): library.northernlight.com/JP20000926080001944.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc