Acknowledge that CEOs and their boards rarely receive good information on what takes place at the operations level within their companies.
U.S.-based NGO Water for People is helping lead the charge in this area with the development of a new system called FLOW (Field Level Operations Watch).
Paradoxically, if nuclear warfare represented the highest level of warfare, there developed at the lowest level covert operations.
The computers compare net income with cash flow from operations and the cash level on the balance sheet.
The U.S. needs to define the level of government operations and tax accordingly.
"We're preparing for what we call level three flood operations, which is the major flood event, " a regional State Emergency Service operations controller, Darren Winkler, told ABC.
"I think the tempo of operations has produced such a level of stress on the families that it is no wonder so many are thinking of leaving, " he added.
The stock trades at 21 times its adjusted funds from operations (net plus depreciation minus maintenance-level capital outlays).
Defense Secretary Robert Gates was briefing Congressional members on the Status of Forces (SOFA) agreement, which gives troops the authority and time they need to conduct operations and train Iraqi forces to a sufficient level, Geoff Morrell said.
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At one level, arm's-length operations might have made sense.
So, my philosophy in preparing for the toughest special operations training in the world was to let my fitness level be the last thing I had to worry about.
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And 87% of strategic intelligence firms use CI to drive business operations, versus 19% of those at the functional intelligence level.
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"We wanted to link up with a side at a decent level, " Portsmouth's director of youth operations Paul Hart told the club website.
Wal-Mart clearly knows how to operate its stores and distribution network at a higher level of profitability than is currently seem in international operations.
"The last time when we were really at this level was Hurricane Katrina, " said Toby Crafton, operations manager.
She said the level of tax taken from multinational firms with large UK operations was "outrageous and an insult to British businesses and individuals who pay their fair share".
In the report, Mrs Hodge said the level of tax taken from multinational firms with large UK operations was, "outrageous and an insult to British businesses and individuals who pay their fair share".
Phase II includes cutting costs by removing an entire layer of operations management, which will see the bank shedding thousands of lower-level jobs.
As you'll see in our investigation after the break, the company itself hasn't been on the level with its customers, even as it became clear that operations were coming apart at the seams.
Like other Big Box stores, all the companies in the Office Supplies category have cut back: closed stores, process re-engineered operations and, like every other sector that was unable to find some level of emotional engagement to hang their brand on, price-promoted, price-promoted, and then did more price-promoting.
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Daimler said that it expected 2013 earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) from continued operations to be below last year's 8.125bn euros, a level it had previously aimed to reach again this year.
Mr Haagsma said the agreement, which involved representatives from all of the EU member states, represented an "unprecedented" level of concern, and posed a threat to Google's future operations.
"These reforms will ensure that UK companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, can compete on a level playing field with those larger companies with the resources to set up operations in the Channel Islands, " said David Gauke, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury.
These kinds of transaction-level insights in real-time provide a faster, more efficient way to improve operations.
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"What it will enable us to do is, taking into account all of the best data that we have, make decisions about evacuations and other measures at a level that is a bit more refined, " Caswell Holloway, the deputy mayor for operations, told reporters Friday at City Hall.
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The majority of the sample was able to perform as high as level four (out of five) of the literacy test, meaning they were able to read, comprehend and answer questions about a simple text, and level three in numeracy, i.e. they were able to perform basic arithmetic operations.
Sundararajan (associate professor of Information, Operations and Management Services at the NYU Stern School of Business) and two colleagues surveyed 23 CIOs and high-level IT managers at U.S. and Canadian companies that use or have evaluated use of cloud services.
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