We have antiquated systems and processes throughout many agencies.
This is especially important for the enterprise, where a majority of business processes do not necessarily take place on the road or in the field, and where many processes require more user input than is possible on a tablet or smartphone.
High Resolution Management is the idea that the management processes and the design and execution of many different processes should change based on the far more detailed picture of business activity provided by big data.
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That's because an average shirt comprises several different pieces of cloth cut and stitched together in many separate processes -- and, often, places.
It used to be even bigger there were 17, 000 workers at the end of the Cold War but Northrop automated many processes and demand has slackened since the old days, when 180 F-16 fighters needing onboard radars were being produced every year.
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Yet the corporate world continues to emphasize control systems, lean processes, and compliance and in many instances, rightly so.
"Cancer is caused by many different processes and inflammation is one of them, and if you could inhibit that process it would be tremendously helpful, " says Young S. Kim, program director in the Nutritional Science Research Group at the National Cancer Institute.
An example of an application that does not work well in a simple cloud environment is a shared database, such as the typical Oracle database application, where the information is one big block of data that needs to be manipulated all the time by many computing processes and where access to the shared data needs to be synchronized and managed.
She said children had been abducted by a parent and taken to France, Australia, Thailand and many other countries, some of which had few processes in place for returning such children.
Guidelines, approval processes and vetting are the norm for many developers.
Best practices are a vital tool for many businesses processes, and can be vitally useful in medicine to steer providers away from medical practices that are clearly flawed.
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The Biological Weapons Convention would afford foreign intelligence services and business competitors access to many of the United States's most sensitive proprietary processes and data in the fields of biotechnology and genetic engineering all without contributing appreciably to the deterrence or detection of covert and illegal BW activities.
The same could be said for many familiar designs, products and processes commonly attributed to a single brilliant mind.
Many processes, both natural and artificial, do not fall into patterns that really allow for useful predictions or projections.
Recognition was given to the fact that human activity had driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth-system processes and the living fabric of ecosystems are now dominated by human activities.
The economic downturn and expansion of government requirements have triggered many companies to increase their transparency and accountability around mission-critical business processes.
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Mechanics vs. dialogue : Many budgeting processes are driven by forms and templates that are sent from headquarters with instructions and guidelines.
Officials counter that the law is the fruit of a political negotiation in the midst of continuing conflict, and that it represents an advance on many past peace processes.
Many hospitals spend time and resources developing quality improvement processes, implement them, and then keep them in a drawer.
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Still, investors should recognize the market remains clogged, that foreclosures in many states remain stalled by judicial processes, and that banks are sitting on thousands of properties that will have to make their way through the sales channels.
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Nanotechnology the emerging field in which scientists and engineers work on scales of billionths of a meter has the potential to significantly transform society in many key areas including materials, processes, and products for revolutionary applications in areas as wide-ranging as energy storage, medical diagnostics, and high-speed computing.
Complicated application processes and eligibility requirements, costly appraisals, and the fact that many homeowners owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home make refinancing all but impossible for millions of Americans.
If so, they would have discovered that the Geneva negotiations kept coasting in a fantasy land where the realities of pharmacological production processes and advances in biotechnology do not exist, and where the many dismal failures of other, much less difficult international inspection efforts have never occurred.
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Many view analytics as promising to transform their business and innovation processes, enabling them to move quickly, nimbly and effectively.
Foreign capital has enabled many papers to modernise their production processes, improving print quality and layout.
It makes little sense to automate already inefficient processes with too many forms, hand-offs, approvals, and lag times.
Apparently tired of hearing pitches about the consumer takeover of the enterprise from too many startups and investors, Horowitz explains that enterprises usually have complicated processes for spending money, sometimes ineffective, but almost always arcane.
Many companies are still top-down and hierarchical, with similarly unchanged processes and reporting lines.
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Many of the policies, products (both financial and technology) and processes are designed with a top to bottom approach.
But for many years, Tesco had a superior ability to organise the logistics and processes behind their supermarkets, raking up substantially higher profits in the process.
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