Perhaps the greatest hurdle for the QR code business is the lack of standardization.
The appropriate balance of standardization and localization should be thought through for each brand and its customers.
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They're blessedly free of corporate branding, except for the trademark Heavenly beds, a fillip of standardization I appreciate.
Our education system today uses the mass production style manufacturing process of standardization.
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But he acknowledges the uneven quality and lack of standardization among the studies.
It is easy to predict autocar ecosystem wars preventing the level of standardization necessary to accomplish network efficiencies across make-and-model operating systems.
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In the sixteenth century, the wide circulation of English Bible translations and the Book of Common Prayer brought a new degree of standardization.
Odd stadium dimensions were born out of the impossibility of standardization and will remain as teams seek to market their uniqueness and eke out incremental advantages.
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The issue, of course, is that while that may be true, the real potential for technology in education is to break us from the requirements of standardization.
Today, the agents of standardization are not empires but industries, like financial services and telecommunications, that need everyone everywhere to be on the same frequency, so that they can use their products.
And the Olympics themselves became agents of standardization.
The lack of standardization makes it hard to summarize and measure how the industry as a whole is doing, which leads people to underestimate how much music is being produced and how much money is being earned.
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And so we must step back and ask ourselves: Is the point of the cloud that we continue our victory of standardization that leads to choice, or is the cloud going to become the next proprietary platform?
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Like medicine, drug discovery was described as something that used to be an art but now was a science, and thus amenable to industrialization, and well-positioned to reap the associated benefits: economies of scale, benefits of standardization, robust metrics, etc.
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If the producers of QR scanning technology can finally realize the benefit of standardization, then the businesses that dominate with QR promotions will be the ones that open their eyes to what can and will be done with this incredible technology.
But when it comes to the management of people, standardization of process has translated into enterprise applications that suck.
Policy, research, statistics, planning, inspection, test- and exams, educational innovation, evaluation of diplomas, standardization of the Papiamentu language, legislation, and refresher courses.
Buffett and friends disdain this sort of mathematical standardization as just another Wall Street oversimplification.
To manage this growth, senior management has made simplicity a strategic imperative such that managers are constantly looking for simplification opportunities through consolidation of country and regional operations, standardization of processes, and reduction of SKUs.
Several months in the making, the Bitcoin Foundation launches this week to accelerate the global growth of bitcoin through standardization, protection, and promotion of the open source protocol.
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Although the GAAP system has been somewhat effective in enforcing a greater level of accountability and standardization within corporate financial reporting, the beneficial intentions of this process have become obfuscated.
This future convention intends to deal with the risk of the impoverishment of cultural diversity and standardization that will result from the gradual loss of the oral and intangible heritage in several parts of the world.
Still, proponents for clawbacks will likely push for more clarity and standardization of rules over time.
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This will require standardization of their operations and risk management procedures as well.
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Dosing and standardization of best practices are also important questions facing the profession.
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Business transformation outsourcing services revolve around standardization of processes and operations in order to make a business more effective.
He fought to require standardization of the insurance policies that supplement Medicare, so people could compare prices and benefits.
They also stressed the need for standardization of the smart grid components, to avoid a patchwork of technologies across the country.
In 1906, he ordered the standardization of geographic names for federal use.
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Modularity allows for affordable customization, while the economics of interdependence mandate standardization.
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