"Due to the scale of the financial challenge facing the council next year and beyond means that we must continue to take a proactive approach to the delivery of efficiency savings to allow us to balance the budget and protect services in key priority areas, " he said.
If nothing else, IDC's material underlines the enormous potential that exists for B2B Net use, the unfashionable business-to-business end of the market where community is less important than efficiency and delivery.
Bolick also cited the example of specialty-gas supplier Air Products, which has been able to save large amounts of energy by using analytics tools to monitor and predict consumer demand and thereby optimize timing and efficiency of delivery routes.
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When a retailing system is operating at peak efficiency, a delivery truck arriving late or carrying the wrong goods immediately triggers messages to a decision maker who can quickly order more.
As an interesting new book by Alan W. Brown, Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain (Addison Wesley, 2012), points out the consequent shift from software development to software delivery, combining constant innovation and control at the enterprise level.
Macrocycles offer a number of advantages over bigger biologics, including better ligand efficiency, tissue penetration, delivery, and cost.
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The second reason for building the open cloud centers around the same motivators that bring enterprises to the cloud in the first place: cost efficiency, range of service delivery options, reduced overhead and better asset utilization.
For all retailers, efficiency is critical and speed of delivery is nearly as important as the cost of the goods sold.
However, I think you have to be a "diesel person, " one who enjoys the engines' efficiency, feel and unique power delivery, for such a vehicle to be truly satisfying.
The recirculated air usually passes through high-efficiency particulate (HEPA) filters before delivery into the cabin.
Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's co-founder and president, claims that the efficiency of peer-to-peer delivery will finally make online video profitable.
For example, supply chain managers are accountable for more than just delivering economy and efficiency to the sourcing of products and logistics of delivery.
For cost efficiency, best pricing to customers and freshest product delivery, they manage to create a scenario where products rarely stay in the warehouse for more than a week.
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Increasingly, supply chain managers are accountable for delivering more than economy and efficiency to the sourcing of products and to the logistics of delivery.
We see the standard being expanded horizontally to address the specific needs of new markets such as energy efficiency, in-car networking, data-center networking and content delivery.
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The delivery of UltraHD TV requires a more efficient compression codec made possible by the use of the new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard.
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