Their primary focus is staff costs, so farming out labor-intensive services would be the obvious solution.
They are resource-intensive services that come at immense cost. 2012 is the year to open our eyes.
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This comes as the carriers are rolling out high-speed 4G networks, and U.S. mobile users are developing a strong taste for data-intensive services like streaming media.
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The most fundamental one remains the Baumol effect: labour-intensive services, such as nursing and teaching, have thus far proved as immune to productivity-enhancing technology as string quartets.
When it comes to bottlenecks in datacenters, the Data Deluge Gap affects everyone, from the largest service provider and enterprise to small and medium businesses, and the billions of end users consuming data-intensive services.
Ministers are considering options to reconfigure neonatal intensive care services.
Even such intensive advisory services by these and other Western institutions, however, should be carefully targeted to the reformist republics and localities of the Soviet Union not the increasingly repressive Kremlin.
So to control your costs, if you use data-intensive mobile services, your best bets are to use Wi-Fi whenever possible and to install apps or other tools that allow you to keep a close eye on your data usage.
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At the same time there will be a rise in prices of capital- and skill-intensive goods and services which China needs to import.
Firms that produce petroleum-intensive goods and services may reduce their prices, which will cause consumers to spend more on these goods and spend less on other goods.
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Those fast lines and digital connections allow cable vendors to offer bandwidth-intensive, interactive services that satellite vendors like Echostar Communications (nasdaq: DISH - news - people ) and DirecTV can't.
This is the basis of the Balassa-Samuelson theory which holds that average prices will be higher in countries with higher productivity (ie, high GDP per head), because higher wages will push up prices in labour-intensive goods and services.
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As a result of the program, a higher proportion of members elected hospice care compared to prior years, which was associated with a decrease in the use of acute care, intensive care and emergency services, particularly for Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
The pattern began in the 1950s, when hugely expensive mainframe computers were first used to save correspondingly huge sums in information-intensive functions in the financial-services industry, then in accounting, payroll and inventory-control tasks in other big organisations.
Hartlepool hospital's intensive care unit is to close with services moving to North Tees Hospital in Stockton.
There are more than 1.5 million nursing-home beds nationwide that provide intensive health- and personal-care services to the elderly.
This includes having better centralised co-ordination over the use and number of paediatric intensive care beds as well as borrowing services from adult NHS wards.
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And, perversely, its great successes of recent years have been in industries that rely not on vast supplies of cheap labour but on smaller numbers of highly educated engineers such as its computer-services businesses and capital-intensive manufacturing.
If we think that we have to take care of our veterans when they come home -- and not just salute on Memorial Day but we actually have to work with folks who have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Traumatic Brain Injury -- well, that requires services that are very labor-intensive and expensive.
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This may be because services tend to be more labour-intensive than goods, and because wages are stickier (downwards, anyway) than other prices.
The provision of most health services tends to be very labor-intensive.
It also said if children needed inpatient care they should be cared for in a unit which has a full range of services backed up by high dependency and intensive care facilities.
It said some services, including accident and emergency, intensive care and maternity, could be provided at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, the Royal Wolverhampton Hospital Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust instead.
America's export boom is likely to be led by firms that are already global in scale and by sectors in which America has a clear competitive advantage: sophisticated, knowledge-intensive capital goods like microprocessors, and high-end services like engineering, oil-production services and even (witness KPF) architecture.
It comes as part of the ongoing "intensive monitoring" of the management of the Surgicentre's services.
Swift Congressional approval of these agreements will help American companies gain greater access to these markets and sell more of their products and services abroad, including high technology and intellectual property intensive products.
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Its aim is to help early-stage companies develop or modify their software for financial services, and better understand what financial firms want, through an intensive 12-week program.
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As a result, operators can more effectively ensure a carrier-grade quality of experience for end users of High Definition voice and video, Web conferencing, instant messaging and presence, and other broadband-intensive mobile applications that go beyond the reliability of Skype, Apple FaceTime and other services suited for consumers but inadequate for the rigors of enterprise use.
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Consequently, it is up to the plan sponsor to do an intensive due diligence of consulting firms prior to selecting a firm and craft a contract for services that reflects the unique concerns of the fund.
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The extra money was required because these were very intensive interventions that included home visits, parent counseling, nutrition, health care and other social services.
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