Until recently, many companies lacked the management-accounting tools to monitor their efficiency.
Thankfully, newer (and crowd-based) tools to monitor online reputations are emerging.
Bolick also cited the example of specialty-gas supplier Air Products, which has been able to save large amounts of energy by using analytics tools to monitor and predict consumer demand and thereby optimize timing and efficiency of delivery routes.
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Chief among the difficulties cited was a lack of tools to properly monitor the network.
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Software tools are available to monitor what employees are saying on social media to avoid compliance issues, but few firms have moved beyond defensive measures to adopting social media strategies which make it easy for advisors to proactively interact with social media, he added.
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Google lacks a way to get new ideas surfaced and on the agenda for management discussion, rapidly create a team dedicated to the growth project, resource the teams with money and other necessary tools, and then monitor performance while simultaneously encouraging behaviors that are outside the Google norms.
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Other major themes at the show, judging from pre-CTIA email pitches, include cloud-based services that will store media and stream it to multiple devices, mobile video editing tools, easy ways to monitor data usage and ever-smaller cellular base stations.
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While there are many tools that can be tapped to monitor voter reaction, few purport to do that in real time, and there is no time for real time analysis than the debates this season.
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CareFamily, which prescreens in-home caregivers and matches them to customers over the Internet, has online tools that let a family remotely monitor a caregiver's attendance, provide reminders about medications and appointments, and exchange care plans and notes via email, texting or phone.
"The Treasury did not have the right tools of transparency so that it could monitor the risk, " he added.
Founded in 1954 by the son of a traveling X-ray machine installer, the Glenwood, Ill. company makes tools called dosimeters, which measure and monitor radiation exposure.
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Built on the NationBuilder platform, a startup that has been catering to smaller organizations looking for less expensive "campaign in a box" tools, NewtHampshire has every bell and whistle you could ask for: user profiles, badges to reward volunteer activity, tracking links so users can monitor their own progress recruiting others, event hosting tools and a public leaderboard to spur activity.
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One of the most important tools we can give them is the ability to monitor terrorist communications.
Some, like Solum and Purfresh, produce tools, often based on IT technologies, for helping farmers, retailers and distributors monitor food stocks to increase yields.
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For personal use, the Mimo Magic Touch can act as a great peripheral monitor for social networking, iTunes and media players, chat windows, online auctions, stock tracking tools, fantasy sports dashboards, and more.
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"We wanted to make sure they have all the right tools available in their pocket" is how Joseph Flaherty of AgaMatrix describes his company's tiny glucose monitor.
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