Instead of opening new plants, Tatar has focused on improving productivity at his eight mills.
The company will be saved by improving productivity and products, not by cutting itself into oblivion.
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Companies were able to shed staff while improving productivity in the remaining labour force.
Farmers are loth to invest in improving productivity when they have no title to the land they till.
Microsoft Dynamics AX offered a user experience similar to other Microsoft applications, leading to higher adoption rates and improving productivity.
Other countries are doing so, and without investment and ever-improving productivity, firms become less competitive and Britain's economy falls behind.
In a system like the Swedish, where creamskimming is not allowed, the schools are more likely to compete by improving productivity.
And they give the company the flexibility to spend more when it needs to recruit above-average talent, improving productivity and inventiveness.
Master Lock is improving productivity at their plant in Milwaukee by upgrading equipment and the company plans to continue bringing jobs back to Wisconsin.
Technology was and still is an important tool for improving productivity.
These customers join a growing list of others in realizing the benefits our hosted productivity solutions can have in fostering collaboration, improving productivity and reducing costs.
It is against this background that a weak centre-left government drawing on support from unions may find it even harder to enact the kind of reforms that stand any chance of improving productivity and competitiveness.
"We are taking further tough action to roll back the unsustainable cost increases of the past few years and are maintaining a relentless focus on improving productivity, " said Tom Albanese, chief executive of Rio Tinto.
Our smart connectivity solutions enable sharing data between devices and applications to empower businesses to make better decisions based on real-time information, and gain a competitive advantage by generating new revenue streams, improving productivity and increasing efficiency and profitability.
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If we can move a particular piece of medical care (or education, entertainment) from being a service to being a manufacture then we have moved it from the cost disease side of the problem over to where it benefits from the continually improving productivity of manufacturing.
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Imagine improving the productivity of distributed teams by giving people access to domain expertise already available within the company.
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Bridgestone said its profits were also lifted by "improving manufacturing productivity, enhancing technology and effectively utilising our management resources".
Given its large presence in the U.S., Wal-Mart has shifted its focus from expanding stores to improving store productivity.
Only by improving the productivity of farming could we raise our standard of living and emerge as an industrial power.
By that I mean they can't find how these mobile devices are improving worker productivity, which computers have been doing quite ruthlessly for the last 70 years.
All this has helped Mr. Brokamp learn a key lesson, he says: Improving your productivity isn't about searching for a better app or finding the right software.
The most important is a commitment to agricultural reform, which Mr Estrada says should focus on improving agricultural productivity and increasing transport links between farms and cities.
CloudOn is a Silicon Valley based startup improving mobile productivity.
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And yet the stock market kept rising in part because companies were improving their productivity with new enterprise software and keeping their labor expenses low by not hiring much.
Even if you use Word for writing poetry, Microsoft has always seen its products in the context of improving human productivity, and the socialization of Office doesn't change that.
But for the economy as a whole, this can be a zero-sum game: depending on the industry, it may be solely a matter of redistributing profits, not improving overall productivity.
And this is why it is vital that we acknowledge that not all innovations are equally effective at improving our productivity, and that sometimes, the best way of enhancing our performance is to turn off the monitor, disconnect the telephone, and simply think.
The consolidation strategy is clearly helping the retailer in improving its store productivity.
Caroline Turner , author of Difference Works: Improving Retention, Productivity and Profitability through Inclusion , began her career as a successful lawyer in a private practice, becoming partner in a large regional firm in the demanding area of securities law and mergers and acquisitions.
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