That process can cost companies in lost business and productivity.
The parliament's chief executive, Paul Grice, rejected a number of the critical conclusions in the report, including those on cost management, responsibility for programming, the process of reporting cost increases to MSPs and the ability of project managers to cap consultants' fees.
Australia possesses a site which has been operating for over a decade, and they use the process to produce cost-competitive diesel fuel.
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Bigger wafers mean more chips per wafer, and since a fair portion of the cost of a chip is in the process itself (the upfront development cost is another major piece), rather than the wafers, bigger wafers mean cheaper chips.
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Former Tory minister Lord Trefgarne asked how much the whole process was going to cost.
The company added that it is in the process of identifying additional cost reduction actions that will impact future quarters.
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Now, here comes Michael Dell, vowing to turn his company's low-cost, process-based manufacturing model directly onto both the printing and managed-services businesses.
They, and the EPO itself, are worried that a unified process with a lower cost to companies would result in lower revenues.
Our on-the-ground experience, though, suggests a qualified positive: the JOBS Act has in useful ways streamlined the process and reduced the cost of IPOs.
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While defining lodes is easy, refining the various rare earth elements is hard and each step of the process is likely to cost a billion dollars.
It also has taken up to 26 months for some to go through the VDP process, and that cost in Life Credit Units (LCUs) never gets accounted for on a reconciliation balance sheet.
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The process was innovative, cost-effective, scalable, and disruptive.
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The primary driving forces behind this mobile payment initiative by Starbucks is its ability for the Seattle-based coffee giant to not just to reduce the cost to process purchases, but according to Brotman, create a better experience for the customer.
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He admits that it is not simple to pull the sugars out of non-food material like pulp or wood waste, but says that even factoring in the extraction process, the final cost should be lower than using corn starch or sugar cane, both of which are much higher-priced commodities.
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It would accelerate the user acquisition process at an extremely low cost.
First, it has become practical to use IT to automate and semi-automate many aspects of the testing process, which lowers the cost of testing enormously.
It said front-line services would be protected during the cost-saving process.
From the beginning the challenge was coming up with an inexpensive catalyst that could be reused in the reactor, driving the cost of the process below the market price of gas.
They convert these into the expected number of successful molecules, the expected costs at each stage of development, and the total cost of the process taking into account both successful and rejected molecules.
Second, because display ads drive consumers down the funnel so that they click more on search ads and eventually become a customer, this process also increases overall ad cost due to additional search clicks.
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Compaq got a head start on the cost-reduction process by fielding more than 200 teams to draw up "road maps" detailing products Compaq would continue to produce and how they would be marketed and sold.
The idea is to indigenize engineering and make the process cookie-cutter to reduce cost.
The cost for providers to process these claims is in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
Even when energy prices dip, as has happened lately, the cost to transport and process oil and gas doesn't waver.
But assessed against more modest expectations we say two cheers: the JOBS Act has meaningfully improved and reduced the cost of the IPO process.
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The company is nearing the end of a comprehensive five-year long restructuring process and plans to see substantial cost savings from its efforts going forward.
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He interviewed a consultant who suspects that this is made possible by a highly automated production process that will make the labor cost difference negligible.
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But Davis noticed what wasn't there: serious cost-control and process-control systems.
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