Sentences with phrase «cost modelling process»

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Bryant's departure follows a pattern that we've now seen repeated in the industry: Longtime CEOs are stepping aside as they battle activist investors, the pressure to implement the 3G - backed Kraft Heinz model of cost cutting, consumers eschewing their processed products, and pressure to slash their prices from retailers fending off Amazon (amzn).

The strong IPO is also a testament to the company's unique business model, which provides enterprises with access to low - cost work process software via the Web, its founders say.

As the Canadian market faces $ 50 / bbl oil, stakeholders in the project delivery chain recognize that business models and processes need to change to be competitive, reduce costs and protect investments.

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These 12 % operating expenses include costs associated with processing data on billions of performances, including those that are live, which cumulatively give BMI an accurate model of what is being played by all types of music users.

Engineers at Queen's University model the injection stretch blow molding process for PET bottles to improve bottle production and performance — and to cut costs.

The model found that investing in two dairy plants with processing volumes of 4m lbs of milk per day, and producing non-American varieties of cheese (Italian and specialty cheeses), would result in the largest reduction of supply chain costs.

In addition, the following key topics were at the center of discussion: barriers to CPM licensing and practice; accreditation of midwifery education processes and programs; and innovative midwifery education models that prepare midwives for entry - level practice while incorporating cost containment.

«The model is capturing the fact that you have a lot of low - cost opportunities to reduce coal, from heavy - industry direct use as well as the electric power sector, from facilities using less energy - efficient technology or processes.»

«Modeling the process of translational science, it is clear that greater emphasis needs to be placed on expediting the growth of basic biomedical research to improve the efficiency, timelines, and cost of bringing new cures to market.»

SRNL is uniquely suited to hydrogen production process flowsheet development and TEA using a variety of COTS engineering software to build models from the unit operation to the plant - wide scale and use them in concert with H2A to develop credible estimates of hydrogen production cost.

Our expertise in ink optimization and printing process modeling coupled to microstructural optimization tools will further the development of high performance, lower cost fuel cells.

The three partner academic institutions will work in tandem to develop the vaccine strains, integrated manufacturing process, and economic models to ensure that ULTRA can achieve costs of less than 15 cents per dose.

The Hydrogen Analysis (H2A) production models provide transparent reporting of detailed process design assumptions and a consistent cost analysis methodology for the production of hydrogen at central and distributed (forecourt / filling - station) facilities.

Thus, parameterizations, efficient ways to represent complex processes in climate models, have been constructed to capture the essence of cloud physics at a much lower computational cost.

Educators then need to adopt processes — such as discovery - driven innovation — for testing, iterating, and refining their blended - learning models in low - cost, low - stakes ways before taking them to scale across a school or district.

The resource includes; * Vehicle specifications for manufacturers (with costs to manufacture each model) * Vehicle specifications for dealers (with suggested prices of each model) * Record sheets for the students to keep track of their purchases * Review sheets for final consolidation of the activity * Icons of the vehicles to assist in the trading process * Newspaper article document (for manufacturers) * Customer interaction document (for dealers) * Sale board for the manufacturers.

«TORSH Talent's video - based observation and feedback platform was selected by the PAC program through a competitive bid process as a means of enabling the state of MA to quickly and efficiently scale its peer coaching model across the state at a reasonable cost.

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For now, this minimal rate is nowhere close to the cost of filling up a tank of gas, but the process still takes longer — 130 miles of range is restored in 30 minutes for standard Model 3s and 170 miles in 30 minutes for long - range versions.

Essentially, BookBaby, has found that charging legitimate authors an upfront fee to process and distribute their ebooks may cause some to ultimately opt for one of the sites that makes its profit out of royalties rather than pay an initial investment; however, this same business model means that spam and piracy can be kept to a minimum as get - rich - quick scammers are loathe to shell out the upfront cost.

Later II: I was just thinking back that a base - model Mac in 1984 (my first Mac) cost $ 2,495 (the equivalent of $ 5,000 in 2007 dollars *) for a computer with processing speed of 8 MHz and 128 K of memory (I bought lots of floppy disks).

The base model of the iMac announced today costs $ 1,200 and has 2.0 GHz of processing speed and 250 GB of memory (hard disk storage).

I think that your statement that the two tablets are «fairly close» is contradicted by the specs that you yourself list; for example, RAM in the Nexus is four times that of the miniPad, processing speed in the Nexus is 1.5 times that of the miniPad, the pixel density is almost double in the Nexus, and in the WiFi models there is no GPS in the miniPad, not to mention the cost difference.

Machine learning techniques provide cost - effective alternatives to traditional methods for extracting underlying relationships between information and data and for predicting future events by processing existing information to train models.

Their VetBilling.com business model allows pet owners to spread veterinary costs over time by making interest - free installment payments, while enabling vets to reliably collect those payments using Electronic Billing's secure and sophisticated payment processing infrastructure.

More recently, we've developed an activity - based costing model to assist in the management and balancing of inventories in our distribution centers and have begun a deep dive into our process flows — both operational and administrative — to identify waste and non-value-added processes.

For both of them we had models built to different scales, so we could envision and discuss every single element, its necessity, its cost, and its manufacturing process.

The engineering component includes the process calculation (using Aspen Plus chemical process modeling software), plant design, and cost estimates for a suitable plant size.

Throughout the process we manage cost control options using tools such as pricing exercises with builders and subcontractors, energy modeling paired with cost analysis, generating budget allocations, and reviewing builder payment terms.

Rive laughed off the question of who needs to be crushed in L.A., but noted that with innovative no - upfront - payment models like the one offered by his company, the cost of burdensome permitting processes looms larger.

At one point, there did seem to be a move within IPCC to have an economic modelling assessment parallel to the physics of climate assessment in WG I, but this fell apart because the people involved in the process seem to have become persuaded that the state of the art of economic modelling — or even the question of whether costs and benefits can be measured as money at all — were not up to the task.

Professors Dan Kammen and Max Wei found that REESA could achieve the state's 2020 renewable energy goals more cost - effectively than under the traditional model, creating more jobs in the process.

ACC believes that many traditional law firm business models and many of the approaches to lawyer training and cost management are not aligned with what corporate clients want and need: value - driven, high - quality legal services that deliver solutions for a reasonable cost and develop lawyers as counselors (not just content - providers), advocates (not just process - doers) and professional partners.

Agile provides specialized legal talent, back - office and process management, and legal support services through a variable cost model.

Some of the above examples of access to justice are those that are commonly predicted by advocates of alternative structures: business models that facilitate reduced and fixed price legal services and / or unbundling, technology that enables standardization and improved processes to handle large volumes of cases or contracts, branding that reduces the client's search costs and increases their level of trust, multidisciplinary services that significantly ease the client experience notably because they do not need to assemble or coordinate different streams of work.

Because your law firm and in - house attorneys have little incentive to speed up processing times, cut costs, and reduce error rates — adoption of legal tech likely requires a push from outside the ranks of lawyers who are captive to the traditional business model.

From the perspective of the financial expert engaged in business process outsourcing, the BAU is critical to a service recipient organization when analyzing an outsourcing proposal because it establishes a baseline cost model relative to the current risk environment.

It can improve efficiencies and drive down the high costs of legal services, which are now suffering from outdated processes, tools and fee models.

ABS will not materially contribute to the efficiency of the legal process or reduce the costs inherent in the litigation model, without the nature of litigation changing dramatically.»

It will recognize that process design, technology, and experimentation can produce material improvements in its service delivery model, increasing quality while reducing cost.

Firms confront a number of client challenges: (1) dissatisfaction and failure to address it; (2) insufficient knowledge of the client's business; (3) high, unpredictable cost; (4) inefficiency and an economic model that «applies brute force» (read: lots of high - priced lawyers billing loads of hours) accompanied by a failure to assess appropriate value to task / cases from the client perspective; (5) failure to deploy technology to streamline operations and provide enterprise solutions; (6) an absence of process and project management; (7) a transactional approach to client matters rather than one that provides enterprise solutions; and (8) poor customer service.

According to a paper by Deloitte LLP, titled «The Resurgence of Corporate Legal Process Outsourcing: Leveraging a new and improved legal support business model» [PDF], in an economy where controlling costs is paramount, LPO may seem an attractive option for reducing rising corporate legal costs.

In addition to the Manchester centre, which is expected to open in the summer, the new model will also see the firm's Lawyers On Demand (LOD) business developed to include virtual transaction teams, the use of third parties to cut costs for clients and the expansion of its internal legal process improvement team to analyse and improve processes and workflows for clients.

They will be engaged by corporate providers with tech and process enabled delivery models that are client - centric, multi-disciplinary — deploying lawyers, other professionals and para-professionals and machines — in a proactive, data - driven fashion at lower cost and with ease of access to consumers.

American Discovery's industry - leading Legal Review Process Model — LegalRPM ™ — incorporates specific standards, methodologies, and metrics designed to deliver highly accurate review while containing costs.

The total cost model focuses on streamlining the e-discovery process with one provider, and often provides a fee structure expressed through a flat rate per custodian, per document reviewed, or per gigabyte.

Until the legal industry finds a business model other than cost - plus — and until their organizational method moves beyond the assignment of bodies to tasks — they're unlikely to use the sort of systematic business processes that prevail in the rest of the commercial world.