Both exchanges compete for the order flow that leads to reduced costs, market efficiency and innovation.
Many would-be innovators deal with the trade-off between efficiency and innovation by rejecting traditional management entirely.
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This is being taken further both directly within organisations and through the assembly government's Efficiency and Innovation Board led by Jane Hutt.
He underlined that the reforms would "ensure efficiency and innovation so that the police can spend more time on the beat tackling crime".
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Which is a roundabout way of saying that efficiency and innovation in public services has to run from top to bottom to really work.
Specifically, how many companies have never merged, and how much efficiency and innovation have we lost thanks to companies shying away from mergers out of fear of the federal government?
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Admired globally for its efficiency and innovation, Qingdao-based Haier is the creation of Zhang Ruimin, China's most famous entrepreneur, who transformed a company so demotivated that its workers used to urinate on the factory floor.
Suppliers that can be relatively creative when it comes to efficiency and product innovation, while maintaining quality, can benefit through increased market share, he said.
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Firms must cut costs, beef up balance sheets, and boost efficiency, quality, innovation and customer service.
This wastes financial resources and retards innovation and efficiency that would naturally come with new, state-of-the-art refinery construction.
It also gave suggestions on improving efficiency and on promoting innovation.
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One of the strongest trends in the 2000 edition of the 1000 ranking: across Asia, companies are scrambling to boost efficiency, profitability and innovation, especially in Japan.
The trends are about efficiency, innovation and productivity.
Once we narrowed down our universe to exactly 400 companies, our editors and writers evaluated the leading companies in each industry on factors such as innovation, efficiency and market leadership.
The Presidents welcomed the launch of the U.S.-Chile Energy Business Council, a new energy partnership focused on clean energy infrastructure to advance clean energy development, identify business and investment opportunities in both countries, and pursue collaboration on energy infrastructure resiliency, technology innovation, and incorporation of energy efficiency and renewables in industry, transportation, building and public sectors.
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No president has ever been closer to creating a legacy of a nation thriving on clean energy innovation, efficiency, and independence.
Lenovo's business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets.
Without abandoning the traditional tasks of controlling costs and increasing efficiency, IT must be increasingly viewed as a driver of greater business innovation and impact.
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Jettisoning the view of healthcare as a disparate realm, in which the laws of economics are forbidden from operating, would unleash innovation, achieve greater efficiency, and foster patient empowerment while ending the enslavement of healthcare providers.
Using open source software helps reduce costs, encourage innovation and accelerate economic growth and efficiency, they argue.
But these pioneers also saw strong financial rewards from embracing social technologies: Cost reduction, operational efficiency, faster innovation through co-creation, and increased customer satisfaction.
"This research shows that there's still more work to be done with consumer advice, product innovation and take up of energy-efficiency labelling, " he said.
These represent just a handful of examples of how a shift toward efficiency and advanced technology is driving job creation, investment and innovation across the country.
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Mr Meisen goes on to make his case that the climate challenge is so daunting that it requires innovation breakthroughs in addition to the expansion of energy efficiency and other ready measures.
This to improve and stimulate performance, stimulate growth, create more cost efficiency, change, innovation, process efficiency etc.
The company is renowned for its innovation and has a strong management culture that is focused on efficiency and controlling costs.
With all this talk of innovation, I often think whether the focus on words like efficiency and IT optimization haven taken a back seat?
With sizable gains to be had for both consumers and businesses, we could be embarking on a sixth wave of innovation, fueled by smarter connected products and machines working to reduce waste, create new efficiency and power entirely new business models.
Instead of focusing exclusively on short term gains and efficiency innovations, the very goal of the firm has to shift to delighting customers through continuous value-adding innovation.
The 2010 National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University, for an extraordinary record of innovations in improving the energy efficiency and reducing the cost of gas liquifaction and separation.
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