Since then, CRM has redefined the sales department, raised productivity and made the process of managing customers easier.

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First, it raised average productivity by 11% through improved quality and efficiency and reduced inventory.

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They found many non-obvious factors which correlate to strong sales performance and have now changed their screening criteria and raised first-year productivity by over 20%.

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Productivity will be raised if their skills and talents are used more fully.

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By applying the finer 20-nm-class process technology, the productivity of the chips is raised over 30 percent.

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We have a fiscal and regulatory environment that has raised the cost and uncertainty of hiring workers while inhibiting productivity improvements.

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Mr Greenspan is placing a lot of weight on the recent increase in America's productivity growth, which has helped offset faster wage growth, and may well have raised the economy's long-term growth rate.

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On a return trip to Rwanda last week, we saw ample evidence in Kigali: a new and fully-leased 20-story skyscraper, tower cranes that punctuate the skyline, and shiny metal roofs in rural areas that attest to growing household income. (Rwanda raised one million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2011.) Agricultural cooperatives improve efficiency and productivity.

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