People, low income or otherwise, tend to ignore their utility until the bill gets too high or the power goes off, he said, and he wonders if people are going to spend time trying to manage their use and implement efficiency measures.

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Market forces are pushing infrastructure operators to put their infrastructure online, which enables them to remotely manage the infrastructure and increases their efficiency.

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The company last week released the latest version of a product for research institutions to automate their regulatory compliance procedures, manage research project approvals and improve the efficiency of complicated human and animal research.

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However, a few years ago I figured out, for me, how to manage email and make it a very minor efficiency detractor.

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And up-and-coming software companies will provide applications that can sit atop the network to manage the information and control for personalization, design, comfort, and efficiency.

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The industry has promised to do several things, including better manage chronic diseases, streamline claims processing, aggregate performance data and implement other efficiency measures.

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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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The aim, says Rodrigo Kede of IBM Brasil, is to manage the conglomerate's computing needs during a period of rapid growth, and to improve efficiency.

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