Read this case study about how poorly assessing technical risk cost one company millions of dollars and months of delay.
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The perceived value of active defense has to be weighed against the risk and cost.
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What will improve my exchange risk and cost: trading in euro or staying with sterling?
How will CPAs account for this potential risk and cost on bank and hedge fund balance sheets?
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Increasingly however, many companies are re-establishing the balance between risk and cost focus as they manage their global supply chain.
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And the consequent decision-making flaws included inadequate contingency planning, insufficient information search and biased assessments of risk, cost-benefits and moral implications.
Furthermore, investors have become hypersensitive about operational risk and cost matters to business processes and technology that could result in catastrophic loss.
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But as in Iraq, it will remain an open question as to whether the bailout was worth the risk and cost to taxpayers.
The pilot institute will address a focused technology area to reduce the risk and cost of commercializing and scaling-up new manufacturing products and processes.
Plainly put, if you want an investment strategy to reduce returns, increase risk, cost and taxes, hire a manager to try to beat the market.
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One problem is that surgery can have an enormous placebo effect, masking a reality of meager benefits in exchange for the risk and cost it entails.
Any potential buyer of the note or investor who partnered with Mr. Kelleher could have to consider the risk and cost associated with resolving the foreclosure case.
These consortia, which would have the clout to raise debt finance at low rates, would assume the risk of cost overruns and the responsibility for finishing projects on time.
Because of this transition to a broader, NATO-based coalition, the risk and cost of this operation -- to our military and to American taxpayers -- will be reduced significantly.
Movea's unique motion processing capabilities enable customers and partners to quickly add motion intelligence to their products, meaning reduced risk, cost, and Time-to-Market for delivering compelling new motion-based features that create more end-user value.
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The Navy's choice is clear: develop and acquire N-UCAS now, in a low risk, cost-effective manner, or make the false economy of cutting funding now and then developing N-UCAS as a high risk, crash program later.
While citrus aurantium may have fewer side effects and be easier to obtain than prescription diet pills, I think the risk, cost and lack of clear benefit of supplements containing this compound do not make it a better alternative to diet pills.
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Risk analysis, and balancing cost and risk, is something the insurance industry has been doing for centuries.
This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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This is a sensible and POSITIVE outcome as risk premiums represent the cost that hedgers pay to speculators to bear the risk they want to avoid.
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The exchanges are supposed to help spread around the risk, and cost, of coverage.
Research from Vanguard found that semiannual rebalancing can strike a reasonable balance between risk control and cost minimization.
Now he argues that his approach could end up being both lower risk and lower cost than ImClone's strategy.
These range from planting mangroves to increase water catchments in high flood regions to providing low-cost risk transfer methods to farmers in developing countries.
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Tesla is taking a slight cost risk that ultimately all customers will want to buy the Supercharger upgrade and receive unlimited, free long distance travel for life.
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Capital equals risk equals a cost of doing business and the more of it you can offload on the other guy, the more profitable you will be.
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So it is not surprising that if you shift dramatically, both in terms of risk and expected cost, obligations from the federal government onto individuals, you can reduce the projected cost.
Energy Network allows organizations to manage the full spectrum of distributed generation assets as a fleet, which enhances business continuity, reduces enterprise risk and transforms cost centers into profit centers.
If lawyers are able to spend 60 cents instead of a dollar on litigation expenses, they will naturally take chances on riskier suits because their risk-adjusted cost of doing business has gone down.
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