If you don't solve problems and create value with your investments, you lose money.
But other times you can cut costs and create value by outsourcing parts of a process, and keeping the value-creating pieces in house.
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The role of PE firms in creating profitable enterprises, arguably, is that they help make the companies they buy more efficient and create value.
Leaders, strategists and planners that enter 2011 hoping they can grow and create value by doing more, better, faster, cheaper will have a very tough time.
It will also resolve Xstrata's ownership structure in a way that I believe will create a superior shareholder value as part of a larger, more diverse company with an enhanced ability to grow and create value for its owners.
How do we recognize that, in this competitive environment, there are all kinds of opportunities that LinkedIn presents for interconnectedness and people being able to work together and spread ideas around the world and create value, but at the same time, understanding that there are some perils as well?
They help corporations, public sector agencies, nonprofits and foundations create value through social change and empower them with data to solve social problems more efficiently.
The 4Afrika Initiative will leverage these existing partnerships and create new ones across the public and private sectors to help advance common goals and to create value for Africans.
In our view, CEO Elon Musk may be similar to Steve Jobs in being a technology visionary also able to manage and create shareholder value.
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For example, the telephone, the computer, and the Internet were all major productivity boosters, they allowed individuals to serve much wider audiences and create more value.
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Everywhere you look, there are radical opportunities for simplification that help you delight your customers, disrupt your competitors, and create new value that can even garner a premium.
We are moving to take advantage of this unique window of time in the growth of the online advertising market to build market share and to create value for stockholders.
Economics 101 tells us that this is exactly the type of industry in which the banks could gain economies of scale and create tremendous value by consolidation around open industry standards and a common technology platform.
In the end, the value of the cloud can only be realized if a sophisticated understanding of the costs and capabilities of the cloud and married to a sophisticated understanding of the way the processes can and should create value.
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However, while these reasons may be true, providing a bit more rigor and testing around whether and how stakeholders value your CSR commitments can sharpen the opportunities to create and capture value for a company.
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You have to be able to really get out there and be scrappy, create value, and the way to do it is through entrepreneurship.
We all believe that the open-source nature of the Hadoop framework will drive cost down, and most importantly create new value and innovation in a very short time frame.
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They include churches, missionary groups, charities, universities, non-profits, and businesses committed to a vision that recognizes the dignity and capacity of people to create value and prosperity for their families and communities.
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Employees contribute both tangible value (actual revenue) and intangible assets (your personal abilities to create value and find money), so direct-revenue-generators and all other employees can contribute in important financial ways to the company.
Andrew Wilson will take on the leadership of Origin, working with CJ Prober and the team to create more value and an enhanced entertainment experience for our consumers.
From a mix of capital, resources and talent, entrepreneurs create new and greater value.
We know the right team can leverage these names to accelerate their business and in doing so can create value for themselves and us as partners.
Convinced that its success had come by focusing on engineering, the company continued to invest in each of these lines of business as if they each had to be the next big thing in their category, instead of turning these devices into a platform on which consumers could build their lives and on which digital partners could create and deliver new value.
Media companies still have ample opportunities to create and capture value around localized information.
Apple leadership understands just in time information and how to create value in a mobile world.
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Investors seek out innovative companies that can create and capture value in the face of global competition.
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Find the right opportunities to simplify: Focus where you can get the most impact and create the most value.
"As we move forward, we remain confident in our strategy, competitiveness and ability to create value for shareholders, " added Rooke.
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Passing cap and trade will help these renewable energy companies grow, create jobs and shareholder value, and save our planet.
Progressive organizations are evaluating their procurement, sourcing and supplier management from a new perspective to create additional value and explore resulting business sustainability risk that will continue well into 2011.
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