BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Gatekeeper

  • somebody within an organization who controls the flow of information and therefore influences policy

Wiktionary Definition for: Gatekeeper

  • #A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate
  • #A person or group who controls access to something or somebody

Additional Resources

GateKeeper USA, Inc. Announced Today It Has Executed an Exclusive Development & License Agreement with Container Security Logistics, LLC
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- GateKeeper USA, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GTKP, formerly GKPR), announced today that it has executed an Exclusive Development & Licensing Agreement with Container Security Logistics, LLC ("CSL"). GateKeeper USA Inc. had issued a "Request for Proposal" RFP for technology that is non RFID dependant, not "Current Off...
Tags: CSL Ltd.
Research articles 2008-01-28
Is the gatekeeper necessary?
MICHAEL BRADFORD The classic gatekeepers for health maintenance organizations slowly are being removed from their posts. Patient and provider dissatisfaction with the gatekeeper HMO model - where patients must go through primary care physicians for reMICHAEL BRADFORD The classic gatekeepers for health maintenance organizations slowly...
Tags: health care, HMO, Kaiser Permanente, patient, physician
Research articles 1998-08-03
Is the gatekeeper necessary? (traditional gatekeepers for health maintenance organizations)
The classic gatekeepers for health maintenance organizations slowly are being removed from their posts. Patient and provider dissatisfaction with the gatekeeper HMO model - where patients must go through primary care physicians for referrals to speciaThe classic gatekeepers for health maintenance organizations slowly are being...
Tags: health care, HMO, Kaiser Permanente, patient, physician
Research articles 1998-08-03
YOGGIE GATEKEEPER NAMED "MOST INNOVATIVE" AT WORLD LEADING ANNUAL SECURITY CONFERENCE
Yoggie Security Systems today announced that it has been named the Most Innovative Company at the RSA Conference 2007 Innovation Station Showdown for the development of its Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro security appliance. Yoggie Security Systems competed againsYoggie Security Systems today announced that it has been named the Most Innovative...
Tags: Innovation, operating system, RSA Security Inc., security
Research articles 2007-02-08
USA: YOGGIE GATEKEEPER NAMED "MOST INNOVATIVE" AT WORLD LEADING ANNUAL SECURITY CONFERENCE.
Yoggie Security Systems today announced that it has been named the Most Innovative Company at the RSA[R] Conference 2007 Innovation Station Showdown for the development of its Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro security appliance. Yoggie Security Systems compete Yoggie Security Systems today announced that it has been...
Tags: Innovation, operating system, RSA Security Inc., security
Research articles 2007-02-08
Gatekeeper goes missing.
Apr 21, 2003 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Taxation Office is the only government department to implement the Gatekeeper strategy. The strategy was launched five years ago to boost confidence in electronic commerce. As at April 2003, interest in the public...
Tags: Australia, Australian Taxation Office, Authentication/Encryption, NETWORKING, PKI, SECURITY
Research articles 2003-04-22
Quiz: How to Bypass a Gatekeeper
Scenario: You need to reach a certain individual a customer executive -- or you're going to lose a big sale.  Only one problem: the receptionist will simply NOT put you through.   The closest you got was the voice mail to the assistant to the executive's secretary.  You decide to give...
Tags: Receptionist, Marketing, Phone, Secretary, Exec, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2009-09-28
Gatekeeper
GATEKEEPER. Archer Mayor. 2003. Read by Christopher Graybill. 7 cds. 8 hrs. Sound Library, BBC Audiobooks America. 0-7927-3058-5. $74,95. Vinyl; plot, reader, author notes. SA Readers looking for Vermont autumn foliage, antiques, and skiing will not find them in this gritty look at drug traffic in Brattleboro and beyond....
Tags: America, British Broadcasting Corp., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vermont
Research articles 2004-05-01
Regulatory gatekeeper nominee draws fire
Nash, James L Occupational Hazards 07-01-2001 Regulatory gatekeeper nominee draws fire Byline: Nash, James L Volume: 63 Number: 7 ISSN: 00297909 Publication Date: 07-01-2001 Page: 13 Type: Periodical Language: English Arguments over the Bush administration's pro-business regulatory policy roiled the Senate Government Affairs Committee as it approved, by...
Tags: Democrat, Lieberman Software Corp, nomination, nominee, SOFTWARE, Strategy, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2001-07-01
Gatekeeper; memoirs of a CIA polygraph examiner
Gatekeeper; memoirs of a CIA polygraph examiner. Sullivan, John F. Potomac Books, Inc. 2007 273 pages $27.95 Hardcover JK468 Sullivan spent 31 years as a polygraph examiner for the Central Intelligence Agency. In this memoir, he touts the value of his craft...
Tags: CIA, MARKETING, memoir, PRODUCTIVITY
Research articles 2007-08-01
Yoggie Security Systems(tm) presents Yoggie Gatekeeper(tm) series at Infosecurity 2007; Winner of the RSA 2007 "Most Innovative Company" award and a Red Herring Top 100 Europe company; Introduces the latest additions to its USB security applianc
M2 PRESSWIRE-24 April 2007-Yoggie Security Systems: Yoggie Security Systemstm presents Yoggie Gatekeepertm series at Infosecurity 2007; Winner of the RSA 2007 "Most Innovative Company" award and a Red Herring Top 100 Europe company; Introduces the latest additions to its USB security appliance range which revolutionizes laptop/PC...
Tags: PC, Red Herring, RSA Security Inc., sales, SECURITY, USB
Research articles 2007-04-24
ERNST & YOUNG: Content packagers to play crucial gatekeeper role owning customer relationships.
M2 PRESSWIRE-3 June 1999-ERNST & YOUNG: Content packagers to play crucial gatekeeper role owning customer relationships C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:010699 London -- On-line portals and aggregators of content and information - Content Packagers - will play a vital role in...
Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, INTERNET, Portals, Taxes
Research articles 1999-06-03
Eluding the gatekeeper: an impressive library of digitized video-ranging from TV classics to new feature-length films-is available over the Internet. How serious of a threat does that present to cable's existing VOD and PPV revenue models? (Eluding the ga
Sidestepping the content gatekeeper isn't a difficult proposition anymore, thanks to broadband connections and a growing slate of packaged, digitized video available via the Internet. Instead of ordering pay-per-view and video-on-demand tides directly from a cable or satellite service provider, it's becoming easier...
Tags: Aitech International Corp.
Research articles 2002-04-01
Top 10 Classic Cold Call Blunders
Cold calling is a difficult art to master.  However, before you can master it, you need to avoid the worst blunders. This post contains 10 recordings of telephone calls illustrating the 10 most common errors that sales reps make when cold calling. The sales training firm Telemasters...
Tags: Cold Calling, HERE, Sales Tools, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2009-09-01
'You can't sell Word' ruling: Microsoft files formal appeal
Microsoft filed its formal appeal late on Tuesday of a patent infringement ruling that threatens to halt sales of Word in its current form. In May, a jury ordered Microsoft to pay $200m for infringing on a patent held by Canada's i4i. Earlier this month, a federal judge increased that...
Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., Patent
News items 2009-08-27
How to Get Showers of Ideas
I lunched today with a well-known quantum physicist, who mentioned that about half his ideas, and most of his best ones, happen in the shower.  I asked him whether he knew why. Being a physicist, he has developed a model to explain why. It goes, loosely, as...
Tags: Shower, Idea, Productivity, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-03-13
Valenti calls V-chip 'quick fix'; MPAA head expects TV ratings system by early '97.(Motion Picture Association of America president Jack Valenti)(Brief Article)
MPAA head expects TV ratings system by early '91 The gatekeeper for television's planned ratings system calls the V-chip "a quick-fix political remedy" and a poor substitute for parental supervision. "The V-chip is a charade--[p MPAA head expects TV...
Tags: MPAA, TV
Research articles 1996-07-08
Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Ohio Changes Management, Focus.(Originated from Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio)
Mar. 25--Two days before Christmas, a handful of executives of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Ohio relaxed in the leather chairs of The Gatekeeper, a Cleveland restaurant with white paneling and a fireplace, just around the corner from the insure Mar. 25--Two...
Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield
Research articles 1997-03-25
VNSL dumps DTH platform. (Review).(Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited )(Brief Article)
India's government-owned gatekeeper Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited VSNL has dumped its direct-to-home DTH satellite plans, quoting a feasibility study that showed the DTH segment ... India's government-owned gatekeeper Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited VSNL has dumped its direct-to-home DTH satellite plans, quoting a feasibility...
Tags: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.
Research articles 2002-01-01
Hirings; Alaska Permanent.(Anchorage Police & Fire Retirement System)
JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. hired Pathway Capital Management as the $26 billion fund's first private equity gatekeeper. The fund's board will discuss a private equity policy at its February meeting; it plans to invest up to 3% of ass JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska...
Tags: asset, board, equity, hiring, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., private equity
Research articles 2003-12-22
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