Context is a function of the business environment, organizational history and recent business performance, informing the relative importance and urgency of change.
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It is encouraging to see that you recognise this issue is of paramount importance to the performance of the bank and in offering these suggestions I am certainly not discouraging this initiative but recognising its value.
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With a nod toward recognizing the importance of education, performance was weighted twice against cost.
We believe that economic performance in Europe is of great importance to us here in the United States.
The Scorecard could not be of greater importance in judging the performance of those in Congress charged with this responsibility.
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One lesson I have learned again and again is the power of video when it is honest and human and deals with a topic of importance to individual or organizational performance.
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"DFID needs to do more and to take a tougher, clearer stance on the importance of cost and service performance information, and in particular indicators of education delivery and attainment if it is to make sure its contributions achieve the maximum good effect, " he said.
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Becky Stevenson, a British dietitian based in the Netherlands, has researched the importance of vitamin D for improving performance and avoiding injury.
Conservative AM Angela Burns raised the issues of teacher under-performance, low level disruptive behaviour and the importance of making better use of the outdoor environment.
In Canada, Hilco said the support of HMV's key suppliers had been of "critical importance" to the business's performance.
You need only listen to Kohlberg's live, unedited performance (presented on this page) to grasp the importance of this way of realizing Schumann's masterwork.
The challenges of harnessing the power of vastly increased participant interactivity are a key differentiator to competitive performance and speed to market, and are therefore of paramount importance to effective employee strategy.
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Guidelines developed for professional pension fiduciaries, subject to a legal duty to safeguard participant benefits, can be especially enlightening as to, for example, the importance of following a defined, disciplined process and evaluating performance against established benchmarks.
The significant out performance by Nokia, Research In Motion and Facebook over Apple shows the importance of monitoring money flows.
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In 1992, Eugene Fama and Ken French outlined the importance of analyzing multiple risk factors when attempting to explain portfolio performance.
Our own leadership and coaching work with chief executives and boards worldwide also demonstrates the importance of empathy and emotional self-management as prerequisites for effective performance.
Hbasecon highlights the growing importance of the open-source community as leaders in expanding the pure performance and capability as the big data market rapidly expands.
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Selection has greater importance with the London Games less than two years away with a good performance leaving the three women in pole position to gain the three places available in the Great Britain Olympic boxing team for 2012.
The Teradata job schooled him in the importance of fast, accurate figures on every part of a company's performance, which let him forecast from recent sales the likely fate of every product.
In addition to financial performance, Intel, under Otellini's leadership, achieved notable successes in areas of strategic importance.
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Later this year, Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Ernest will have its UK stage premiere, following on from its concert performance at the Barbican last year.
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