With the canvas' nine separate blocks covering such things as resources, value propositions, customer relations, cost structure and revenue streams, it captures the complete essence of a business plan.
Freed from these obligations, telcos could deploy these resources to higher value services, including expanding the reach of their IP-based networks.
They operate in similar terrains, where they need to effectively manage their scarce resources and deliver value to their customers and other stakeholders.
Many of these resources have lasting value and significance, and therefore constitute a heritage that should be protected and preserved for current and future generations.
However, they believe that public understanding of the value of biodiversity and natural resources suffers from having no intrinsic monetary value.
Sustained growth in income and jobs relies on a continuous shift of resources to higher-value industries.
That translates to pinpointing an eclectic collection assembled from the best resources with the finest value proposition for the consumer.
"The only reason for consolidation in the sector is that investors continue to have this completely myopic view on the value of resources, " he added.
But the point of local currencies is also to boost the value of resources, such as local labor, that are undervalued in the dollar economy.
Being on the hottest social platform can do more harm than good if the execution is off, sucking up those resources better spent on value-creating activities.
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If they have few indigenous energy resources, they may value, as Japan has done, the security offered by plants running on fuel that is cheap and easily stockpiled.
These may seem like radical notions but in a sense, they reflect some distinctly conservative thinking: that the more we put a value on resources, the more likely we are to use those resources wisely.
Indeed rather than a dramatically overvalued ruble, which is what would happen if Russia were suffering from Dutch Disease, the most dramatic threat facing Russia in 2012 is that, as global growth retreats and prices for natural resources decline, the value of the ruble will stumble even further and require costly Central Bank interventions to prevent a panicky devaluation.
As employees solve problems, they learn faster and find ways to deliver greater value with fewer resources.
First, it is a continent rich in the high-value, natural resources necessary to propel China's maturing economy.
Technological advance which means that we can add more value to those resources.
This non-profit venture led in part by scientists from Stanford University has developed a software tool to help map out the value of natural resources.
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In a free society, which implies a free market, businesses survive only by providing services of greater value than the resources they use in production.
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The British conglomerate thrives by pulling maximum value from natural resources, headlined by its majority interest in African diamond giant De Beers and dominant operations in platinum mining and industrial metal production.
The exact value of these resources is impossible to calculate reliably, but a leading UN official described the scale of mineral deposits in the world's oceans as "staggering" with "several hundred years' worth of cobalt and nickel".
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He has helped raise awareness among people and Governments of the immense value of our environmental resources.
Our nation is endowed with natural resources, vibrant people and traditional value system.
If sufficient resources are lacking, lower-value initiatives should be halted or abandoned.
The answer is that we have leadership at the volunteer, local and county levels that truly understands the value of having volunteer resources every day.
That is why we have spent the past three years getting out of the activities our customers don't need and putting our resources back into the services they value and rely on.
Up-close examination of a captured asteroid would also yield insights into the economic value of space rock resources and shed light on the best ways to deflect potentially dangerous asteroids away from Earth.
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Bumi said that it received a request from the Bakrie Group to cancel their indirect 23.8% shareholding, in exchange for an equivalent value of PT Bumi Resources shares representing 10.3% of the total outstanding share capital.
Some sellers received payments considered well below market value, but they lacked resources to sue.
It ensures that your limited resources get allocated to the highest-value activities.
We need, therefore, the other type of growth, the type than comes from both using resources more efficiently and from adding more value to them.
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