In its Strategic Plan 2010-2015, the USPTO makes clear that a strategic goal is to optimize patent quality and timeliness.
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There are, these days, more high-quality non-predictive approaches to strategic foresight and future-management than most managers are aware of.
Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) in an increasingly quality-oriented app world, not a browser world, then you have to do something to move up on the value scale, " says Doctor, adding: "It seems to me that part of Google's strategic thinking is that it is becoming a more quality-oriented news world.
The revision and development of the curriculum is one among four main strategic effort of ICHAD to promote and deliver a more comprehensive and quality HIV and Sexuality Education.
"While we evaluate restructuring initiatives and strategic alternatives, we are committed to continuing to provide high-quality solar products to our global customer base, " Suntech CEO David King said in a statement.
The Treasury Department and our colleagues comprising the President's Working Group on Financial Markets are addressing the current and strategic challenges, and are doing all we can to ensure high quality, competitive, and orderly capital markets.
But there have been concerns about the quality of some courses and questions about whether there should be greater strategic planning.
She had tried to tell the Care Quality Commission about her concerns but was told that it was a strategic health authority responsibility.
Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds consistently building quality ball clubs, the Mets need to make bold moves that are strategic and cost effective.
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"Universal health care" was neither already established nor inevitable, and we thought the foundation had made a serious philosophical and strategic error in accepting rather than disputing the left-liberal notion that the provision of "quality, affordable health care" to everyone was a proper role of government.
It was far less strategic yes, but incredibly satisfying, and many of the gunfights played out with an almost cinematic quality to them, like I was Neo, trenchcoat, sunglasses and all running through that lobby unloading my bullets into armored up guards.
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Fuel choice in the transportation sector can strip oil of its strategic value, deny our adversaries the wherewithal they use to harm us, and help protect our quality of life and economy against the effects of cuts in foreign energy supplies and the rising costs of oil.
He says it is his biggest strategic shift in 30 years, as he seeks to reduce exposure to rising interest rates or deteriorating credit quality.
Croydon was a "strategic location" which could bring millions of people to a part of London "under-served by high-quality retail and leisure facilities", Westfield said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange.
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