Too often organizations, especially those resistant to change, stand on principle when they really are standing on process.
In a speech in London, he said the civil service was too often "risk averse" and "focused on process".
In January, an independent US report into the blast found that while BP emphasised personal safety, it was weak on process safety.
Another concern, at least to an outside observer, is the wisdom of liberals forging a political alliance focused on process over substance.
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Science tells us that focusing on process is what brings results.
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He focuses on process and execution, slogging through minute details to get to a clear answer and pressing relentlessly to squeeze out more cost and stir more demand.
Liberal Democrat Peter Black AM stressed that "reform needs to be accompanied by accountability" as he criticised the government's agenda for being focused on process rather than outcome.
Without a focus on process prioritized by how value is created, a CIO will end up with a huge to do list and no idea what to do next.
WTO's rule on process and production methods, which prohibits countries from distinguishing between goods on the basis of the way they have been produced, is a case in point.
It has calcified from the risk-taking organization it was in its youth into a rigid bureaucracy in which more emphasis is placed on process than it is on mission accomplishment.
Later still, as the industry matured, the skills that counted moved back somewhat from science (where they had rested for a time) to engineering, as growth and profits came to depend less on product innovation and more on process ingenuity.
Medicare reports on process measures.
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Pope Benedict has since called for a "period of deeper study and reflection" on the beatification process - widely seen as putting the process on hold.
Meetarbhan, Co-chair of UN Informal Process on Oceans (Mauritius) and Ms L. Inniss, Co-coordinator of the UN Group of Experts on the Regular Process for Reporting and Assessing the State of the Marine Environment.
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But the so-called six-party process has bogged down over disagreements on a process to verify information it disclosed.
The only way I have been able to think of to put a serious break on the process is to put some sort of cap on the amount of return on investment that can receive preferential treatment.
Instead, focus on the process, which means using the techniques that got you on the team in the first place.
Other authorities have embarked on a process known as stock transfer, where tenants are balloted on moving to a housing association that would be freer to finance the levels of investment required.
Even worse, with all of the attention on internal process changes, many of the newly acquired companies lost focus on their customers and saw falloffs in revenue in the first year.
In November 1990, the longest-serving member of her cabinet, Geoffrey Howe, resigned over her hostile position on a process of European integration, under which more national powers, on issues from banking regulation to working practices, were moving to Brussels.
Government-supported initiatives such as UK NetYear and the planned National Grid for Learning have focused on the process of connecting schools to the Internet and providing online materials, rather than on setting lower-rate or free access.
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Not at all, we have 70 staff in London working on standardised process models which have brought together people across London, the process changes occurring in advance of the deployment of IT, this has been going on for years in the NHS. That assertion is completely wrong.
IBM's approach is based on a process developed by IBM Research to crank out so-called thin-film solar cells based on copper, indium, gallium and selenide.
South Africa also relied on the process during its isolation in the apartheid era.
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Mr al-Momani said it would be "difficult" to put a timeframe on the process.
Starck's influence is evident from the complex design concept to the hands-on manufacturing process.
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There was a meeting on Monday, but are you satisfied and confident on the process?
McCain last month told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that it's too risky to comment on the process.
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