Our competitors had assured the Fund they could meet the guidelines regarding ethnicity and locality and still deliver competitive performance.
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Why would we tell a pension that proposed to hire us that the product they wanted us to manage for them would likely not have competitive performance?
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The challenges of harnessing the power of vastly increased participant interactivity are a key differentiator to competitive performance and speed to market, and are therefore of paramount importance to effective employee strategy.
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"Even where these have had positive effects, progress has been too slow and incremental, and fundamental concerns remain about the competitive structure and performance of these markets, " he said.
The retailer offered its employees a "competitive package" including performance-related pay, with permanent employees also offered benefits including healthcare and a personal pension plan, it added.
As the amount of information grows exponentially and the clockspeed of business gets faster, providing a streamlined flow of real-time data analysis and decision making in key processes will be the foundation for better performance and competitive advantage.
Any manager should be able to find some period of time over which his performance is arguably competitive to quote when necessary.
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Ahmanson was already an innovator, so imagine his performance in a fully competitive market free of politically-crafted limitations.
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However, as a result of this research we realized there were significant challenges to offering such a manager-of-managers product that was competitive in terms of fees and performance and still met the specific political agendas of each prospective client.
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This, coupled with extraordinary revenue sharing and a element of randomness that impacts both player, coaching, and team performance, makes for greater competitive balance.
In competitive systems that offer participants great incentives, peak levels of performance progressively elevate.
With England's three-day warm-up match in Baroda was cancelled, the performance squad will help prepare the Test side for competitive action.
High performance is traditionally measured against key business imperatives including competitive differentiation, sales, attracting and retaining talent, operational efficiency, return on investment and profitability.
Influential investment advisers, such as Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), have started advising clients to vote against members of compensation committees or against compensation plans that exceed certain competitive benchmarks or don't have close enough ties to performance.
Opposing positions, competitive tensions, power struggles, ego, pride, jealousy, performance discrepancies, compensation issues, just someone having a bad day, etc.
This is especially true of superstar players, who are above all paid for lifting the performance of those around them and, thereby, creating competitive advantage.
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In the case of Microsoft, I believe its under-performance is primarily tied to its size, the economy and competitive forces.
While these decisions are painful, they are necessary to meet competitive demands, customer cost expectations and effectiveness, and to deliver financial performance for our shareholders.
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"What we found was that it is critical for competitive advantage and companies are seeing this as a way to improve their performance, " says Cynthia Figge, co-founder of Ekos International.
As the Breakthrough Institute has consistently argued, taking clean energy alternatives to scale and building globally competitive clean energy industries will ultimately depend on such improvements in cost and performance.
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"Our second-generation product delivers double the compute performance and up to three times the graphics capabilities1, all while maintaining competitive low power, " Eul said.
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In this view, human capital is treated as an accumulative resource that benefits the organization like any other business asset, providing competitive advantage through a transformation of the unique capabilities of individual employees to superior organizational performance.
But in the hyper-competitive microprocessor market, where computer-makers relentlessly demand cheaper chips with ever-higher performance, being a lot smaller puts AMD at a distinct disadvantage.
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But unless the market remains competitive, bundling ultimately may negate whatever progress has been made in the name of efficiency and performance.
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