Specification, development, programming, marketing, integration and consulting in connection with training courses and systems for personnel and career planning as well as other systems of information and multimedia technology in Switzerland and abroad, and production, purchase and sale of related products and services; can invent, register, acquire, manage, exploit, transfer and license patents, trademarks and technical and industrial know-how, can provide technical, administrative, financial and logistical consulting services, can provide marketing coordination for the group and for third parties, can take out or grant loans, can invest, acquire, merge and provide guarantees, participate in other companies and acquire, encumber, sell and lease real estate.