China already dominates both production and capacity at the low-value-added assembly end of manufacturing.
The commission describes the forestry, ranging from three acres to 450 acres, as "low-value woods".
Dell has limited strategic options in the consumer segment, especially the low-value products like notebooks.
And high-volume, low-value cement is not the sort of stuff in which you can expand just by exporting.
This is primarily the result of the popularity of cash for low-value transactions.
Network operators want to collaborate with Visa and Mastercard, but this strategy will simply increase transaction costs for low-value payments.
"We would end up competing on low-wages and low-skills: an off-shore low-value economy, a race to the bottom, " he said.
And, if our efforts feel ultimately pointless, then surely the hours within it will feel pointless and low-value as well.
EMC, which sold some of its low-value storage to Dell and has been buying value-added analysis companies, is off 0.17%.
Just one year ago, it was a relatively low-value piece of Manhattan real estate once used as a factory for manufacturing coats.
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For low-value claims, moreover, the costs of court-enforced orders can be prohibitive.
It is used for making very low-value purchases at shops, vending machines and pay phones or it can be used for electronic commerce.
Some payment providers charge hefty fees, arguing that this is the only way to make the economics work given few subscribers and low-value transactions.
The White House could use its South Korean trade pact as a late bargaining chip for fast-track renewal, though it might be a low-value one.
Assuming practices move beyond low-value patient portals, the benefits are clear.
It was introduced by the UK Treasury in 1983 to help speed up the transit of low-value goods, which may have otherwise been delayed by customs.
So Brazil transports a relatively low-value commodity using the most expensive means, lorries, which are then forced to wait for ages because the docks are clogged.
And those alternatives represent the key for CIOs to modernize their infrastructure to match the performance needs of tomorrow while also bending the spending curve away from low-value clutter to high-value innovation.
Companies around the globe are learning that while cloud computing has many virtues, perhaps chief among them is its ability to help business leaders shift huge chunks of IT budgets away from low-value infrastructure and toward customer-facing growth and innovation.
U.S. manufacturers now produce three and a half times more output per worker hour than they did in the peak employment year of 1979, in part because offshoring has sent many low-value jobs overseas, but also because automation has replaced lots of factory jobs.
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My POV: While not the answer (yet) for every question, engineered systems give strategic CIOs considerable latitude to devote more people and energy toward innovative customer-facing initiatives, and simultaneously alleviate the need for CIOs to pour so many budget dollars into low-value integration work that generates little or no competitive advantage.
At the same time, on the internal side, CIOs must be primarily concerned with bending the IT budget curve away from low-value legacy infrastructure and toward new technologies that liberate precious funding for innovation, because those rapidly emerging marketplace realities touched on above will simply overwhelm traditional systems and traditional IT approaches.
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Low-value-added manufacturing that tends to be more labor intensive are the most likely industries to shift some of their operations outside of the established manufacturing zones within China or move their operations to another country, although that usually entails having to contend with a lack of developed infrastructure and a smaller, less skilled workforce.
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The import behind that statement is that customers can get on with the business of running a shoe business or a CPG company or a bank and begin withdrawing from the costly, maddening, and ultimately low-value world of evaluating, testing, purchasing, integrating, deploying, monitoring, patching, and babysitting vast swaths of infrastructure and applications and networks and storage.
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In the face of all of those daunting challenges, more and more businesses and other types of large organizations are turning to cloud computing to let them handle the surging volumes of data and demanding workloads in a manner that also lets those customers begin spending less on low-value overhead and infrastructure and more on customer-facing growth initiatives.
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They come to that conclusion presumably because revenue from the sale of Sun hardware has declined since the acquisition, and they lock on to that opinion in spite of the fact that Oracle executives at the time of the deal said they were going to eliminate unprofitable hardware products, low-value hardware products, and no-future hardware products in spite of the inevitable revenue impacts.
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The jewelry interest is the high-carat low value-added jewelry, he said.
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You can make money on hot growth stocks, but you must be wary of them in a way that you do not have to be wary of a low-multiple value stock.
Controlling the supply of rare earths means that China can also control their processing and use in finished goods, which would fit a broader effort to drive its manufacturers from low- to high-value goods.
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