Because of the Internet, education delivery methods and content are evolving more rapidly than ever, dramatically expanding access to learning, while reducing costs.
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Wells Fargo figures its highly integrated technology reduces risk, cuts marketing costs and lets the bank grow profits while reducing costs to customers.
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This simple move, documented in a U.S. Department of Energy report will cut emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide and other emissions significantly while reducing costs.
Also, as the company was one of the first to enter the market, it already has the infrastructure and presence to use economies of scale to drive down prices while reducing costs.
By focusing on top-line value to readily implement new solutions while reducing costs and the infrastructure footprint at the same time, a new IT leader can set a course for double-barreled value creation that earns him or her status as a true peer to the rest of the c-suite of executives.
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This will give manufacturers the ability to dramatically increase capacity while reducing unit costs.
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The idea is to enable companies to raise money in a number of new ways while reducing compliance costs.
Seagate Technology announced that it joined this effort to help cloud builders develop more scalable, customizable solutions using open platforms while reducing operating costs.
Most health insurers are committed to ensuring positive member outcomes while reducing healthcare costs, but many are plagued with issues that affect their ability to better understand how to achieve this.
Its intriguing to entertain the idea that putting CROs closer to the center of the ecosystem could be a key ingredient in allowing the drug business to maintain its focus on innovating but doing it while reducing system costs.
Calibrating your business to respond instantly to changing consumer tastes, rapidly delivering products to fill immediate needs, simultaneously serving the market better while reducing inventory carrying costs, is an extremely compelling business case.
We asked each to weigh in with one great idea for reducing costs while still providing high quality care.
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While interested in reducing trading costs, pensions are concerned, on the other hand, that performance not be adversely affected.
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Prior to straying off course earlier in the previous decade, Toyota provided value in many of its products by relentlessly reducing costs while maximizing benefits to the consumer.
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But where an incumbent's monopoly goes unchallenged, there is another incentive, assuming the overall goal is to maximise profits: reducing costs while keeping prices the same for consumers.
Smart medical practices have figured out processes for managing schedules that make it easier for patients to see a doctor when they need to, while reducing missed appointments and other hidden costs.
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Nanotech also allows for "green manufacturing"--manufacturing processes that can take place at ordinary temperatures, reducing energy costs, while the use of non-toxic catalysts minimize pollution and bottom-up construction leaves no wasted material behind.
Italy has backed the idea, while billionaire investor George Soros told the BBC that the bonds could be an effective way of reducing the borrowing costs of highly-indebted nations.
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