Studies conducted in the early 1990s by Rand Corp. found that 10% to 30% of many common operations were inappropriate or questionable.
Some common gynaecological operations are carried out using keyhole techniques.
Rents with a percentage kicker, common in franchise operations, may be more affordable to a startup.
This arrangement is designed to help Sprint consolidate its cell sites and install common equipment that will enable operations on its three different portions of spectrum with a common cell site radio system.
Watson Wyatt, an employee-benefits consultancy, says that American multinationals increasingly are applying a common compensation scheme to all their operations.
By forcing the carriers to pool their operations and offer a common price for the full journey, such incentives disappear, and the ticket costs less as a result.
It sets the stage for a more agile organization that is able to detect changes in its markets, common issues or exceptions in its operations, or frequent cross-interactions across its departments.
Drew Rockwell, CEO at MDS Lavastorm Analytics, says one of the most common problems he sees in business operations is that companies are running their operations on Excel when they need more powerful, more comprehensive business software.
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For more than half a century it was common for doctors to carry out reversal operations, either through castration or constructing a new vagina, on babies whose genitals were seen as either too big or too small.
Mr Dobson said the public had a right to know about clinical standards in order to exercise their "common law right to give informed consent" to operations.
And, the unique modularity of this platform allows mission-configuring also for 4WD, 6WD and track units to handle varied terrain and greater payloads, all with shared logistics of common parts and technology modules to simplify sustainment of operations by our troops.
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The resulting problem, of course, is that multi-million dollar operations with hundreds of employees have absolutely nothing in common with the real small businesses we all tend to think of.
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Given that Fonterra followed a common practice by using Hong Kong as a legal base for its Chinese operations, that argument alone is sending a shudder through the territory's businesses.
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The most common treatments people are facing long waits for is in orthopaedics, which includes operations such as knee and hip replacements.
"Our customers were looking for something different and they didn't want that kind of locker room--type environment where you change in a common area, wait in a common area and so forth, " recalls Gordon Tareta, director of spa operations for Hyatt.
The second misconception that underlies the common approach towards international business strategy is that it is about overcoming challenges that operations in foreign, unfamiliar environments raise, as well as those that result from the need to coordinate activities across multiple countries.
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All the rice was produced at small-scale mills of the kind common in China's agricultural sector, which remains extremely localized and composed of smaller operations, making it difficult to regulate standards.
All the rice was produced at small-scale mills of the kind common in China's agricultural sector, which remains extremely localized and composed of smaller operations, which makes it difficult to regulate standards.
While numerous players have said recently that bounties have been a common, well-known part of pro football for years, people familiar with league operations said NFL investigators never had concrete information about bounties they felt they could prove.
As yuan funds become more common in London, European companies could find it easier to raise yuan to finance their Chinese operations.
With the advent of UEFA Financial Fair Play and record losses, common sense would dictate that the clubs should use their new (additional) wealth as a way to re balance operations.
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