Increasingly, clients are finding incremental levels of performance inadequate and are challenging the status quo to find ways to maintain their market leadership.

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It is a huge margin to find in development and each incremental gain in performance tends to become more difficult as diminishing returns set in.

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One way to avoid having to take dramatic action is to monitor the performance environment closely and to make earlier, incremental adjustments.

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