Because the IPAB will be required to make changes that demonstrate actual savings in a one-year time frame, the only tool the board will realistically have will be to cut Medicare payment rates for those providing services and medicines to beneficiaries.
Watermark also works with a company called Intrabond Capital, which has a highly respected board assessment tool.
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"There's one tool consistently used across the board, and that's LinkedIn, " said Mr. Hoyt.
Recently, the Corporate Executive Board developed a tool it calls Insight IQ and used it to assess the tendency of managers to rely on intuition versus analysis.
Andy Tatem, a reader in the Geology and Environmental Science department at the University of Southampton is the developer of vbd-air.com, a web tool developed for the Transportation Research Board to help track the spread of mosquito-transmitted illnesses via air travel.
To that end, Martijn, the UI designer, has dropped by Vimeo to provide us with a "sneak peek" at the device's operation, including some demos on iOS and a connected prototyping board, using a custom tool that sends designs to the Pebble screen from any graphics program in real-time (a feature that will reportedly also be available in the SDK).
Heads of Nominating and Governance, lead directors and CEOs would have a much needed tool to finally do what needs to be done to improve board performance.
The investor communication tool allows for investors to easily be updated and even vote on board members and larger decisions with the founders.
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Participating restaurants offer up a fixed number of tables per night, making VillageVines a tool for them to move unused inventory without lowering prices across the board, as Gilt does with designer clothing companies.
The fact is, while many marketers have jumped on board the Twitter bandwagon, most are yet to see the tool as a strategic channel.
The tool estimates the cost of attendance, including tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, transportation and personal expenses.
PGP, an acronym for Pretty Good Privacy, was originally created as a free tool by Philip Zimmermann in the early nineties to allow for private email correspondences and bulletin-board service postings.
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Open-source programs across the board - the Apache Web server, the Perl programming language and the GNU development tool set, to name a few - are gaining legitimacy as a business platform.
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