Unfortunately, these models are fundamentally flawed in being biased to favor corrosive price promotion over brand-building advertising and to favor advertising cost efficiency over sales-growth effectiveness.
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Because of this line of reasoning, managers or technical leads sometimes over-correct and attempt to maximize efficiency by staffing single-person projects to reduce the communication overhead down to zero.
And if you want to talk about market dynamics at the pump, then look no further than the increase in demand for hybrid cars, which can increase fuel efficiency over other mid-sized cars with the help of an electric engine.
Growing businesses find that a server set-up provides more control over file management, sharing, back-up and security, plus efficiency when adding people.
So my objection is, one, the money rather than looked at in a way it was intended as an investment in low-income housing, ADA accessibility, energy efficiency that will pay back over time, it was about a 45-minute discussion.
Nanotube circuits could provide a ten-times improvement in energy efficiency over silicon.
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"The reason the broadband market is where it is, is because there has been zero capital efficiency over the past few years--everybody has tried to replicate everything, " Jenkins says.
He said the university had cut the number of courses as part of efficiency measures and last year over-enrolled, going over its student number limit, so always planned to reduce its numbers, and that it is still recruiting.
But one thing I did not bring up -- one step this President took, standing with the CEOs of more than a dozen automobile companies, was to raise fuel-efficiency standards, double them over the course of a number of years.
This is a company that is specializing in LED lighting, has been extraordinarily effective in driving down the costs of high-efficiency lighting that is, over time, I think going to make a huge difference, not just for businesses who use the technology, but also for a country that needs to figure out how do we operate in a more energy-efficient way.
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Pop-up stores enable cost efficiency advantages over traditional retailers, while at the same time accessing physical retailing demand.
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The argument is that their efficiency gives them an unfair advantage over mom-and-pop operators.
In the now ever-present debates over energy policies, pressure for tougher automotive fuel efficiency standards has elicited an intriguing response from the creative Rep. Dingell, D-Mich.
And over the coming two decades, where we can expect even more ICT-driven efficiency gains, the EIA still forecasts a 16% aggregate rise in electric demand.
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As efficiency washes over every discipline, the associated trends of automation and software-driven decision-making are putting people out of work.
We were able, over the last two years, to increase for the first time in 30 years fuel-efficiency standards on cars and trucks.
At the moment the stuff costs less, in real terms, than it did in 1949, and this glut of dirt-cheap gasoline has meant that the average fuel efficiency of American vehicles has actually declined over the past decade.
Or they may increase the efficiency of the grid by consuming off-peak load and pushing more kilowatt-hours over the same infrastructure.
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The Isle of Wight, off the south coast in the Solent, aspires to become self-sufficient in energy over the next few decades through a combination of tidal power, a waste-to-electricity plant and efficiency savings.
Spread over nine equally-weighted categories, the scorecard rates colleges on factors like sustainable policies by administration, commitment to energy efficiency and conservation, food and recycling policies, campus-wide green building initiatives, student involvement, alternative transportation.
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