This policy has reduced internal costs by 25 percent and raised end-user satisfaction by 200 percent.
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It also included all costs associated with the legal challenge to the procurement and an estimate of the internal costs associated with the procurement.
The Budgets Committee has recommended that the administrative budget - covering the Parliament's internal costs - should not exceed the EU-wide inflation rate of 1.9%, which means a real terms freeze.
So, the next time you start to moan about the weird tech support guys and grumble about your internal support costs and how little seems to get done just understand that this stupid Microsoft bug is just one small part of the black hole that sucks away their time.
The Times reports that Apple may change some internal components to cut costs.
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Oracle's other president, company veteran Safra Catz , is tasked with Oracle's internal operations, so costs don't spiral up in a world of smaller deals and tougher sales.
When revenues are down, it is natural to focus on short-term strategies that eliminate costs, yet an internal focus can debilitate your business down the line.
As well as being burdened by unsustainable levels of external debt, all five economies share the misery of trying to regain lost competitive ground through internal devaluation, in which domestic costs are ground down year after year.
JAL, a deeply splintered company with poor internal communications, was unable to cut costs so quickly.
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One municipality that Tadelis considered in his research believed that it could cut costs by eliminating its two internal IT positions and outsourcing their work to local technology providers.
These top four challenges, if left unsolved, can result in organizations that are slow to create change, projects that are harder to automate, increased tunnel vision among internal organizations, business risk and higher costs of IT operations.
But in later work he also showed that organising matters within companies had costs: in particular, it relied on internal authority to get things done, and this could be abused.
As a result, enterprises have re-examined their current Identity and Access Management (IAM) processes and have begun to look for new IAM approaches to ensure that their organizations are safe from access-related security breaches, optimize the operational costs associated with access control and meet their internal and external compliance requirements.
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Internal rate of return for instance focuses attention on short term costs and benefits and discounts medium-term costs and benefits (like staying in business) so that they appear almost irrelevant.
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Republican lawmakers have held hearings on the issue, and six GOP members of the House Energy and Commerce committee wrote last week to more than a dozen insurers asking them to turn over internal analyses on the law's impact on premiums and costs.
For small-scale drilling partners the Internal Revenue Service permits the immediate deduction of so-called intangible drilling costs (labor and fuel, mainly).
This has been a positive and appropriate activity at most companies, and in our experience, internal audit budgets have generally not simply been cut for the sake of cutting costs.
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For Internal purposes, what we also refer to as Enterprise 2.0, the top three measurable business benefits lie in increasing speed of access to knowledge (77% of respondents agree on achieving value), reducing communications costs (60%), and increasing speed of access to internal experts.
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Size of the internal market is one reason firms have moved to Brazil, in addition to low costs and availability of real estate.
Physician compensation is tied to "efficiencies, " which means reducing the outlays and costs to the group (translation: skimp where possible) and thus generating for internal distribution a larger share of the prepaid premiums.
In an internal memo leaked last month, the 11 participating states suggest that the transaction tax could increase government borrowing costs.
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