Outsourcing has moved from a cost-saving venture to a talent- and market-seeking opportunity.
The company sees a significant cost saving opportunity by combining the two entities and managing a lean, centralized work force for sales and management.
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The report suggests a number of cost-saving measures, including a cut of 772 in the trust's workforce to 3, 907.
After disastrous 2012 results, Rio is in a cost saving mode and has promised to focus on shareholder returns.
It said the decision to close was taken in late 2011 as a cost saving measure to protect services to children and families.
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We were told the use of a QVGA rather than HVGA screen on the Wildfire was a major saving in terms of cost, and we didn't feel like it was too big a sacrifice to make.
Up next: plans that would support access for several devices per user in a cost-saving bundle.
He could replace antiquated linotype machines with computer technology, a huge cost saving on productivity.
But the new results indicate that such a cost-saving approach may come at a price in lives.
In early 1990, then- Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney was poorly advised and decided to cancel the V-22 program as a cost-saving measure.
Often companies are surprised at how little they actually end up saving by sourcing to a low cost country, once they consider all the ancillary costs.
One is a migration from contracts calling for arbitration by three-person panels to that by a single arbitrator - which can be a cost-saving move because it entails paying only one arbitrator.
The argument in the UK has gained momentum in recent weeks with revelations that companies including BT are planning to move services jobs in areas such as directory inquiries to India as a cost-saving measure.
Still, that is a saving, and I can spread the packing cost if I get a couple of friends to order as well, but I get the any-color-as-long-as-it's-blue treatment and opt to wait for the sales.
And, yes, choosing a more fuel-efficient car can indeed be a significant cost-saving measure.
Low or negative real interest rates on deposits, including saving accounts, provides a low-cost source of funding for state-owned banks.
Meanwhile, Ford, Nissan, Audi, key Chinese and other automakers are lightweighting with familiar metals, saving somewhat less fuel at a comparable cost per gallon.
And to help meet that goal, this master of lean manufacturing is experimenting with a new cost-saving factory setup that it hopes to deploy around the world--while competitors are just now catching up with its last-generation manufacturing innovations.
The cut was part annual efficiency saving and part "a result of the cost of making services safe", it said.
So what will saving of those jobs through a PTC extension cost?
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However, planners will have to weigh the cost-saving advantages of a family-of-systems approach against the danger that vital datalinks might be jammed by future adversaries.
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Several other stars, including Nnamdi Asomugha, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Antoine Winfield, are looking for jobs after they were cut in cost-saving moves on a busy opening day of free agency.
But filing subpoenas to get information quickly to identify and locate a suspect could cost life-saving time.
The trust said it was due to a shortfall in previous cost-saving targets.
He may be a fan of low-budget carrier Spirit Airlines, which made headlines this spring when it announced that it was installing "pre-reclined" seats on some of its planes as a space- and cost-saving measure.
At the height of privatisation and contracting out, zero hours contracts were seen as a model of flexibility and cost-saving.
He says offering up a fraction of those cost in prize money for a successful prototype supports talent outside of NASA and saving the bottom line.
Bundled fee arrangements which were promoted by custodians as supposedly cost-saving to pensions have emerged as a costly flaw in the business model of the industry.
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