Also on the cards is faster and more socially sensitive crisis management, as well as greater private-sector participation in such efforts.
Nearly three-quarters (74%) of CMOs told us that compared to a year ago, customers have higher expectations for product quality, and similarly large majorities said that customers have higher expectations for customer service (75%) and expect more value for their money (76%), and also are more price sensitive (76%).
As a manager, I should have been more alert and sensitive to my own symptoms.
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Analysts also note that Hertz is expanding its off-airport car rental locations, which are more profitable and less sensitive to the cyclical travel economy.
Since reds are more delicate and sensitive to flight, Moorfield admits that the Economy Class offerings can't compare with a glass at a wine-buff's dinner party.
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But now Mr. Singh said he can show different ads based on whether a user regularly buys Diet Pepsi or is a Pepsi loyalist or so-called Pepsi switchers, a group of people who tend to flip between Pepsi and its rivals and are typically more price sensitive.
We expect emerging markets such as Brazil, India, China and other Asian countries to drive the cloud-based business as it is a more cost effective way to adopt ERP and CRM and these economies tend to be more price sensitive.
The income tax hikes call for more advanced and time-sensitive planning.
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Gold investors are becoming more price conscious and price sensitive on the buy side and the retreat to the lowest levels since late August was seen as attractive.
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Toyota Motors is stepping up its focus on the extreme ends of the auto market i.e. luxury cars on the higher end of the spectrum and cars for the more price sensitive consumers at the lower end.
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In 2011, UNESCO provided equipment and training on safety issues, conflict-sensitive journalism and humanitarian reporting to more than 40 media professionals in Somalia.
As such, corporations across industries are struggling to earn loyalty and trust from a consumer base that is simply looking for brands to be more culturally sensitive about their particular needs and in how they communicate with them.
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They are more price-sensitive and focused on basic functional benefits in products.
And if consumers become more price-sensitive, e-books may become more appealing.
Previous research has suggested that obese people with high levels of both abdominal and subcutaneous fat are more insulin-sensitive than those with only high levels of abdominal fat.
Natural gas export is a sensitive political issue and more than one industrial company has complained that such exports would raise domestic gas prices and hence harm American business and the economy in general.
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One-third of them thought that greater transparency and more engagement with stakeholders would help companies to cope better with sensitive social and political issues.
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Both the government and the European Commission have acknowledged the risks of depending on increased tax revenue, which is more growth sensitive, to meet fiscal targets and contingency spending cuts amounting to 0.5 per cent of national output have prepared in case of another tax shortfall.
It's very sensitive and avoided a lot more misdiagnosis than the Glasgow Coma Scale.
"If colleges do not adapt to shifting demographics and the weak economy making families more price sensitive, there will be fewer institutions, " Wittenberg President Laurie Joyner said in an interview.
Lighter and more thin-skinned than cabernet sauvignon or merlot, pinot is sensitive to climate and handling.
The Phenome Centre will aim to use and develop the sensitive anti-doping facilities to analyse samples in a faster and more detailed manner than previously possible.
In Kenya and Lesotho, the Varkey GEMS Foundation works with UNESCO on gender-sensitive teacher training to encourage more girls to attend school and learn science and mathematics.
There will be a version with pressure-sensitive flat keys and another with more traditional raised keys called a Type Cover.
But the Pentagon certification would allow more security-sensitive government agencies at the Pentagon to start using them, and would allow more widespread use of the devices across government agencies.
This is not entirely bad news as it is likely to improve margins in the long terms and make its business less sensitive to the slowing PC market and allow it to concentrate on the more lucrative services business.
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You get the extra money from those willing to pay more and still keep the revenues from the price sensitive.
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Last year, Corning, which makes the Gorilla Glass used for iPads and iPhones, unveiled a thinner, more touch-sensitive version of their product that could make it easier to produce a watch with curves.
After all, what is more secure, sensitive documents stored in laptops and smartphones that can be easily lost or stolen, or sensitive documents housed in the cloud behind several layers of security?
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It called for Select Committees to have more powers to access ministers, civil servants and sensitive documents in their inquiries after struggling to get the full picture during its own inquiry into the decision to go to war in Iraq.
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