In an effort to drive innovation, the factories were often developing new products or processes on different platforms.
This process begins when you take some insights or processes and elevate them above the crowd of competitors.
By identifying tasks that can be outsourced, or processes that can be automated, companies can realize huge cost and productivity savings.
Few legacy systems or processes means entrepreneurs and organizations have the chance now to re-structure the market and industries to newer business concepts.
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This requires innovation on the part of management to find new products, services, or processes that will help the firm generate new income streams.
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There is a growing awareness that the shift is a shift in the management paradigm, not just about adopting some new tools or processes.
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It is a dramatic change from standards requiring reports only if the facility uses 10, 000 pounds of lead or processes 25, 000 pounds of lead compounds annually.
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The removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, either through the enhancement of natural weathering processes or direct capture from ambient air are further examples, as well as the enhancement of oceanic CO2 uptake through ocean fertilisation with scarce nutrients or the enhancement of upwelling processes.
And bringing them into offices will not improve the strategy development or innovation processes.
Other barriers to infant industries may relax, like having access to high-tech machines, transportation or efficient processes.
Do you detect any behaviors or thought processes that could be undermining your influence as a leader?
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In contrast with offshoring, nearshoring is the transfer of business or IT processes to companies in a nearby country, typically with one which shares borders.
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Harriet Millward, of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, said a number of studies had hinted that testosterone replacement therapy might have positive effects on mood or mental processes.
For this client, the inflexibility of labor laws and the power of labor unions is a far bigger constraint to her IT agility than is the complexity of IT systems or internal processes.
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It said it was the role of the government to conduct filtering or censorship processes above the consumer level, but there was also no one size fits all technical solution to the problem.
For years, the focus has been on little else but getting costs down, with the result that the system does not have up-to-date equipment, the spare parts, the cyber-security research, or other programs, processes, or institutional capabilities we need.
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That is uniquely true of the U.S. Department of Defense, where it is typical to find some of the most senior positions in the weapons acquisition system populated by people who have little understanding of new technologies or business processes.
Finally, investing in hedge funds can pose operational risk: risk of investment loss from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or problems with external service providers rather than an unsuccessful investment strategy.
Of course neither company intended to create more complex, elongated, or difficult HR processes.
Timber is sold either for pulp used in paper processes or as saw-timber for construction.
Thermoelectric materials convert low-grade heat wasted in industrial processes or exhaust systems of a vehicle into electricity.
But new knowledge identifying underlying biological processes or behaviors could be beneficial to clinicians, as well, she said.
Managers looking to plan business processes or add new functionality now have much more choice among the many services coming online.
Complex systems can actually become less certain over time as research reveals processes or complications that had not previously been understood or anticipated.
Meanwhile, it leaned on suppliers' engineers for suggestions on how to cut costs by 30%--by using cheaper materials or changing manufacturing processes, for instance.
Additionally, you could find opportunities to reduce costs, streamline processes or enhance customer loyalty, thus adding tangible value that could literally make you indispensable.
Does your finance department review all proposals concerning new products, distributors, manufacturing processes or market entries and comment on whether they meet internal hurdles for gross margin?
Their mission is to facilitate collaborative tasks such as problem solving, exception handling, consensus building, and innovative brainstorming, tasks that cannot be pre-programmed into structured processes or workflows.
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Few have mainframes running business processes or databases keeping stock.
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