The industry will have to start managing demand more sensibly than it has in the past.
If that is to be done, it will be done largely by managing demand.
"We have to look at ways of managing demand, of helping people not to need such expensive health interventions, " he said.
"It is important to understand that this is not about making a profit out of patients it is about managing demand, " he added.
This was a demonstration of a suite of open and extensible software applications for managing energy demand and time-of-use pricing by a firm in Boulder, Colorado, called Tendril.
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If all of this works then what we are talking about is Amazon as a private company effectively taking on the traditional roles of a nation state: managing liquidity demand and internalizing externalities.
Of course this goes up and down, but the NHS has practice and experience in managing peaks in demand, particularly in the winter.
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The one possible flaw in the theory: Stores do such a good job predicting demand and managing inventory levels that less discounting than expected will be needed.
"I think the biggest challenge is simply managing all the pent-up demand, " said Paul Steely White of Transportation Alternatives, the pedestrian and bike advocacy group closely allied with Ms. Sadik-Khan.
Astrata managing director Sandy Borthwick told CNN that demand for his company's tracking technology was increasing.
In key markets such as China, Consular officers are keeping interview wait times to an average of five days in 2012 while managing a 37 percent increase in visa demand.
As the industry shifts from large central plants to a diverse collection of windmills and biogas generators, managing the complex balance of supply and demand will require fat communications pipes and complex calculations.
In these times of uncertain demand, we focus on tightly managing the variables under our control such as inventories and expenses.
The importance of cooperation in managing limited water resources in a world where demand is rapidly growing, cannot be underestimated: some 145 countries share a major river basin with at least one other nation.
Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan among others showed how to run big organizations by delivering mass production through managing the supply chain, parsing and manufacturing demand, controlling employees as human resources, and steadily increasing efficiency through economies of scale.
But, as long as we remain loyal to the ideal of a meritocratic democracy then we must demand institutions that meritocratic democracies are capable of managing.
The industry wants the FAA to use demand to better schedule furloughs, which "could include managing furloughs on an hourly basis, as opposed to by the day, " said Airlines for America spokeswoman Jean Medina.
Hayek was managing to close the gap between manufacturing output and real-time market demand.
Demand for the deal is "massive, " said Scott Sweet, senior managing partner at IPOBoutique.com.
High population density, a poor ratio of available water to demand, and regional imbalances in available water supplies are serious challenges for China in managing its usable water supply.
"Professional photographers, videographers and cinematographers demand increasingly powerful cameras that help them unleash their creativity, " said Masaya Maeda, managing director and chief executive, image communication products operations, Canon.
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"Everybody in the gold market knew there was a surge in investment demand, but they didn't know it was China, " said Jeff Christian, managing director at CPM Group.
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