It turned out to be counter-productive to the objective of making the company more innovative.
Charles L. Hooper is president of Objective Insights, a company that consults for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institution.
My company, Objective Analysis, understands this, since we perform rigorous end-user surveys.
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The European Commission will only be satisfied if there are objective standards by which a company is placed under the consolidated global system, says Howard Liebman, a lawyer at Jones Day in Brussels.
On the Ineos website, the company's stated objective is to "continue growing our profitability and cash flows".
Our objective for 2010 was for the Company to generate a positive cash flow and remain a going concern.
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Ethisphere's proprietary rating system, which it calls the Ethics Quotient, is based on a series of multiple-choice questions in a survey that is designed to capture a company's performance in an objective and standardized way.
There is no blame game because everyone is focused on realizing the company goal instead of achieving their departmental objective at the expense of others.
Through additional objective and subjective analysis, they selected the best-managed company in each of 26 industries.
If you want to achieve a business objective, after all, be it launching a new product or reducing the cost of your company health plan, you need to incentivize your managers, employees, and suppliers to help you succeed.
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The Company plans to invest the net proceeds of the offering in accordance with its investment objective, which is to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for investors by originating loans to privately held small-cap companies across a broad range of industries, and for general corporate purposes.
The company must cover all costs and make profit, at the same time achieve the social objective, such as, healthcare for the poor, housing for the poor, financial services for the poor, nutrition for malnourished children, providing safe drinking water, introducing renewable energy, etc. in a business way.
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