The other savings came from standardizing our manufacturing processes and implementing lean manufacturing principles.
Even Amazon, who we could make an argument for, seems to be standardizing on Android.
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But he has led what is now a decade-long experiment in standardizing joint-replacement surgery.
No one had the computer power to massage all the numbers, so there wasn't any use in standardizing everything.
Microsoft's MSN doesn't do much in this realm because of difficulties in standardizing databases across all of its services.
By standardizing networking infrastructure and adopting technologies like videoconferencing, its staff has reduced operating costs, cut down on travel expenses, and grown.
While it may seem like an oversimplification, large corporations have succeeded by standardizing the delivery of products and services as they scale.
These multi-billion dollar industries have enabled companies to remove huge costs by standardizing processes, and essentially taking people OUT of the equation.
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Seton Hall is one of the rare organizations which is standardizing on Windows 8 for both tablets as well as PCs.
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Standardizing the way that risk to patients is measured in studies, so that side effects are always handled in the same way.
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Still, Ted Scardamalia, director of product analysis at research firm Portelligent, says standardizing is more a business consideration than an engineering puzzle.
The perceived saving from standardizing on a single platform is coming back to haunt those organizations that fell for the Microsoft sales pitch.
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Companies in every manufacturing arena deployed ERP successfully, squeezing out inefficiencies, standardizing processes and making it easier to define and adopt best practices.
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By standardizing the process, people can stop reinventing the wheel again and again and start focusing on the data needed to justify a decision.
By standardizing more of its technology, Harman can now profitably serve the entry luxury and mid-luxury markets where it has traditionally lacked a competitive product.
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Standardizing the process by which companies strike deals to do clinical trials that compare an experimental drug to a standard regimen made by another company.
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By standardizing specs for commonly purchased items and working together across silos, we can pool our purchasing power to leverage our size and lower cost.
Little to help implement further changes, like standardizing information technology systems, coordinating purchasing, eliminating redundant treasury departments and figuring out exact job descriptions for top executives.
They include requiring brake override systems on all vehicles, standardizing keyless ignition systems and requiring event data recorders, or vehicle black boxes, on all new vehicles.
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In a sense, StreamWork applies the Lean Manufacturing concept of standardizing work to the process of decision making, which makes a variety of continuous improvement processes possible.
They are standardizing basic procedures to help reduce errors and condensing long-winded practice guidelines that harried doctors don't read into simple checklists integrated into daily work flow.
Now, Seton Hall may hope that by standardizing on Windows 8, it will be able to save money by avoiding the need to invest in new management software.
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The shippers and freight forwarders of the world can do their part as well by standardizing forms and formats of the data they provide to customs organizations worldwide.
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Leape did turn up extensive safety literature from cognitive psychology, aviation and nuclear power, gleaning lessons--reducing reliance on memory, standardizing processes, promoting teamwork--that might apply well to medicine.
And more than that, though, I mean, I think the DNI has made some progress in intelligence-sharing and standardizing certain practices and getting people to talk more together.
To gradually bring this new product experience to life, SAP is standardizing development on several core platforms, which, breaking the hard-coding paradigm, will be loosely coupled and naturally distributed.
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By standardizing on Microsoft Dynamics AX, we have been able to streamline our development teams, reuse testing across factories, and fix defects across the whole business in one big swoop.
Standardizing interest rates is something that could help Main Street, and would force institutions to treat customers as people, not numbers when dealing with current market rates and existing relationships.
The mean BMI for women 20 and older in Samoa in 2009 was 33.8, and for men, 30.5, after standardizing for the country's age distribution each ranking fourth-highest in the world.
"As products are standardizing, that's the right time to enter the market and accelerate the process, " says Russell Holt, 41, who runs Dell's enterprise systems group along with Randy D.
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