"The human cost and the financial cost and the strategic opportunity cost, if you will the fact that forces are here, they can't be elsewhere figures into the recommendations that I make, " he says.
Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds consistently building quality ball clubs, the Mets need to make bold moves that are strategic and cost effective.
FORBES: Trading R.A. Dickey could be the Gateway to Greener Pastures for the New York Mets
The metrics that ranked lowest are far more interesting and valuable to strategic marketers: Cost per Customer Acquired (15%) and Lifetime Value of Customers Acquired (19%).
The federal bureaucracy has made a strategic mistake that threatens to cost the President dearly.
Darden's Newkirk says there is also a growing opportunity for business schools to compete cost effectively with strategic consultancy firms.
In response, we took several strategic actions to reduce our cost structure.
Taken together, these five segmentation approaches get the right employees to join and stay, without breaking the bank, turning employer branding from a recruitment cost to a strategic driver of profit.
In other words, under any foreseeable circumstances, U.S. investment in an effort to mimic Soviet mobile missile programs is unlikely to produce strategic benefits commensurate with the cost in defense resources.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Bush��s Faustian Deal On Mobile Missiles
If implemented, the package of recommended changes offers the prospect of greater robustness and credibility for U.S. strategic forces, possibly at lower cost than the current program and with greater public support.
This improvement is principally due to higher auction and private sale commission revenues, partially offset by an increase in operating expenses that is due, in part, to higher incentive compensation costs, a higher level of direct costs consistent with the volume and composition of auction sales, and the cost of investments in strategic initiatives.
However, Microsoft is said to be interested, as are a number of other companies, attracted by Malaysia's high growth, low cost, political stability and strategic location.
In his new biography of Tony Blair (see article), Anthony Seldon argues that Mr Brown's sulky reluctance to apply his strategic talents to health and education has cost the government dear.
The army managed at great cost to capture much of the strategic Jaffna peninsula and hold on to it.
City officials refuted the findings and stated the cost overruns were part of a strategic decision to build a 911 backup center.
However, this highlights an important byproduct of the cost cutting and operational efficiency driving strategic actions that so many companies have implemented since the start of the downturn job losses.
FORBES: What H-P's Layoff Announcement Says About Future Job Growth
Whether inside a company or outside, how can you turn a cost center into a profit-producing strategic asset?
These low-cost funds, coupled with a fixed strategic asset allocation based on needs, create a high probability solution for nearly every investor.
Even if the acquisition of Russian S-300 missiles at the cost of untold millions of dollars made strategic sense, such investments will face tough sledding at home to the extent that they come at the expense of the production of domestic anti-missile systems, to say nothing of ships, planes and armored vehicles that enjoy higher priority among the JCS and in some quarters on Capitol Hill.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Only Hope for Real ��Progress' On Missile Defense
Strategic partners are in it for the revenue gains and cost savings.
Traditional state-to-state deterrence theory suggests that such a buildup would cost a lot economically while buying nothing of strategic value.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Newsweek declares the missile defense debate Over��
The buyer can offset the cost of these surprises if the acquisition delivers big strategic value.
FORBES: The Lesson of H-P for Mid-Market Companies: With Acquisitions, (Really) Do Your Homework
Contrary to popular belief, customer service is not a cost center like payroll processing or other non-strategic business functions.
As a result, IT has moved from a low-priority to high-priority, a cost center to a profit center, non-strategic to strategic.
Needed porta-potties could not be put into service in strategic locations because of legal requirements for equal treatment that made the cost prohibitive.
FORBES: Financial Reform: The Upside of a Fill-In-the-Blanks Approach
The government is taking measures to stabilize growth by pushing for more investment projects, reducing tax burdens and allowing private sector investment in strategic industries as China tries moving away from being a low-cost manufacturing hub dependent on the ever-declining growth of the developed world.
To be sure, some infrastructure projects might pass that cost-benefit test (perhaps electric grid modernization, or unclogging strategic rail bottlenecks).
Were they to choose, following an agreement, to produce larger numbers of strategic missiles than are permitted, the Soviets could do so at relatively small cost and obtain still better attack capabilities than they enjoy at present.
As a result, we must accelerate our strategic initiatives to position AMD to take advantage of these shifts and put in place a lower cost business model.
The cost of the B-2 program will represent just 15 per cent of the strategic account over time approximately the proportion of that account historically allocated to the manned bomber component of the Strategic Triad.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Roundtable Discussion On The B-2 Bomber
When their confidence returns, strategic buyers are generally likely to outbid private-equity firms and hedge funds, because integrating industries brings cost reductions and other synergies that are less easily garnered by financial buyers.
ECONOMIST: American investors fight each other over Celanese
应用推荐