The defensive approach is what has driven most enterprises to the brink of their budgets.
Today, energy management is a consideration throughout the procurement process and for production planning in most enterprises.
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Most enterprises will not be able to treat all their customers so well: it is too expensive.
Remote storage is becoming a standard for most enterprises and has even gained traction with retail customers with services like iCloud, Dropbox, Skydrive and Google Drive.
In order to integrate MapReduce, most enterprises need to develop an entirely new skill base, and the human capital investment will quickly outweigh the infrastructure investment.
That makes managed mobility powerful enough for most enterprises and certainly most startups and smaller firms, while delivering all of vaunted upsides of cloud: low cost, low pain.
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The trouble is that most enterprises see no point in it: asked whether lack of management expertise was a problem, only 3% of Brazilian small firms said yes.
As I mentioned on CNBC last week, our research shows that while most enterprises are starting to invest in the cloud, they are most certainly not shifting over to it in a big way any time soon.
Most enterprises have already significantly cut discretionary IT spending growth over the past several years and, barring a global economic catastrophe and significant contraction of operations, they have little room to reduce IT spending further over the long run.
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His hasty mass-privatisation programme, which made ordinary Czechs the formal owners of most enterprises but gave control to state-owned banks with no interest in improving them, created a crisis that culminated in a humiliating devaluation of the currency in May last year.
Second perhaps only to religion, Universities have stood the test of time outliving many governments and most commercial enterprises.
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In fact, most smaller enterprises detest the phrases SMB or mid-market.
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In the decades since, health care has grown into one of America's most gigantic enterprises, 17% of GDP -- arguably too much but still a huge driver of employment and investment.
Most social enterprises generate little or no monetary profit.
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In ten years the X Games have become, pound for pound, one of the most valuable enterprises in television sports--and a favorite venue for Sony, Gillette and other marketers eager to reach an elusive audience: 12- to 19-year-olds.
It is worth noting that these are the largest, and arguably the most solvent Italian enterprises.
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Many of the most celebrated social enterprises of the past decade have become known for ingenious products.
Parenthood might just be one of the most psychologically challenging enterprises there is.
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Most managers of enterprises, at least when talking in private, do not foresee an increase in profits or revenues this year, so a marginal reduction in lending rates looks like it will be ineffective.
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Stock exchanges have been very profitable enterprises for most of their history.
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Today the company has more than 10, 000 employees and 90 separate enterprises operating in most provinces.
Windows 7 is running in just 20 per cent of large enterprises with the most difficult migrations yet to come.
Infochimps wants to make it simple, and most important, safe for enterprises to experiment with big data and discover new insights.
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They were micro-enterprises run by the most experienced early education experts and impossible to replicate.
But now, despite the privatisation of most of Zambia's smaller enterprises, the gloss has gone.
The family, including his mother and three siblings, indirectly hold most of their shares through Walton Enterprises LLC.
To be sure, private lenders are now making very few mortgages, with most initiated by Government-Sponsored Enterprises (Chart 7).
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In the last few years, the country went through a period of rising incomes, most of it due to state enterprises.
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