Sentences with phrase «business systems fail»

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The owners of a rigging and construction business have been fined a total of $ 32,500 for failing to provide workers with a fall injury prevention system on a construction site.

A business is no different: It has lots of parts that must work well together and can not handle too much stress before the system fails.

In this context, «hard» business applications are such things as manufacturing and financial management software from companies like SAP and Oracle, and the databases that underly those applications as well as transactional systems that — should they fail — cost companies big money.

With a lack of standard addressing systems in the Middle East region, efficient logistics systems continue to be a key barrier in e-commerce ventures scaling up, with e-commerce businesses bearing huge costs in failed or delayed deliveries.

If Humana fails to properly maintain the integrity of its data, to strategically implement new information systems, to protect Humana's proprietary rights to its systems, or to defend against cyber-security attacks, the company's business may be materially adversely affected.

Lei said the business failed as they neglected to install GPS systems on its bikes like deeper - pocketed rivals Mobike and Ofo did.

I'm not saying a franchised business can't fail upon a transfer, too, but a franchise system is designed to survive the individual, and a successful brand is something that has a life of its own.

Inspired by books like How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big and The 4 - Hour Workweek, Quey focused on building systems that would enable his business to grow while working on the side.

The EPA found that one in every eight planes failed the agency's standards for water safety and 15 % of of tested aircraft water systems contained potentially harmful bacteria, Business Insider reports.

That will take a generation and will require a large - scale and sustainable reform of the failing Spanish educational system, a marked reduction in business regulations and a long - term commitment to innovation.

«Our once proud state has become a laughing stock around the country, with the highest taxes, the worst business climate, high energy costs, a failing transportation and infrastructure system, failing schools and rising unemployment in every region of the state, except New York City,» DeFrancisco said.

And, in an argument President Obama failed to sell four years ago to Congress before compromising, he urged, «Take health care off the business budget by having a single - payer system for the state.»

It wasn't to replace a well - oiled machine; instead, parents, taxpayers, civil rights leaders and the business community could no longer tolerate an education system that was failing so many of our students.

Sometimes businesses fail because they are based on innovations that are ahead of their time, but Udutu Learning Systems simply waited for the rest of the world to catch up and have been thriving ever since.

In closing, I'd simply say that if we want dynamic, responsive, high - quality, and self - improving systems of urban schools, we need to stop stubbornly preserving the failed schools of yesterday and get about the business of building mechanisms that continuously introduce new offerings, grow successes, and phase out schools that don't work for kids.

«Caroline returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to use her business skills to help rebuild the state's failing educational system,» said Freeman School Dean Ira Solomon.

There are three glaring examples of failed diversification attempts: 1) the optical systems effort that was discontinued after costing the company nearly $ 80MM by some accounts, 2) the Jasomi acquisition, which cost $ 24MM and appears to have little to no contribution to the business, and 3) the PVP development, which has yet to generate significant revenue.

If a business runs mission critical systems in the cloud, and that system fails, the business could be out of business.

You and I sit in the middle of the largest community of small firm lawyers in the world where, in theory, we are in touch everyday with thousands of lawyers around the country and yet, maybe at our business model failing, I don't have a good system for knowing a person in every practice area and every jurisdiction, so I'm regularly stumped when people ask me for referrals.

Starting in the early 1990s, as a partner with two Chicago firms, he developed skills - training program for associates, professionalized management teams, established budgets for litigation (which some lawyers still insist can't be done), reformed time and billing systems, and even mandated partner business plans that placed partners» compensation at risk for failing to achieve goals.

Law firms look set to update their technology systems in a bid to steal a competitive edge over laggards who fail to see changing business needs

While the America Invents Act of 2011 was supposed to fix the patent system, it failed to do so, in large part because it was watered down by the pharmaceutical industry, a business that many, including Becker, believe does need strong patent protection.

Despite modest pickup in some regions, that operating system, BlackBerry 10, failed to gain sufficient market share to turn the company's handset business profitable.

Jim Benson, the author of Why Plans Fail: Cognitive Bias, Decision Making, and Your Business, encourages hiring managers to step back and think about their cognitive biases within the context of the system in which they occur.

Responsible for monitoring failing business systems and making recommendations on creating sustained success.

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«Failing to cull under - motivated agents is a recipe for poor profitability,» says consultant Walter S. Sanford of Sanford Systems & Strategies in Kankakee, Ill. «Under - producing agents are a drag on your business,» says Sanford, who recommends his clients set sales and lead generation goals for agents.