Sentences with phrase «fewer company resources»

These specialists attend departmental meetings to suggest ways to increase productivity and use fewer company resources.

Not exact matches

While social media and marketing can definitely help boost a brand's online presence, there are a few other things companies should do before investing resources to these areas.

Salesforce is a cloud - based solution, which means that companies need fewer resources on the ground to get started.

Among human resources outsourcing companies, few provide as wide a range of services as Insperity.

Here are a few tips to help you grow your company using the resources you currently have in place.

Many such companies operate in a global marketplace, yet few have the resources to properly attack it, which is why so many stay small or fail.

This is a real industry: There are quite a few companies vying for these rights already, including Deep Space Industries, Kepler Energy, and Planetary Resources.

Few companies get up and running without a bit of private capital giving them an extra boost, even in today's era of free resources, digital communication and crowdfunding.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

Revenue growth has slowed as many companies sink more resources into developing the next blockbuster drug; what's more, the «patent cliff» for the last round of megabillion - dollar drugs — when generics firms typically see a sales spurt — happened a few years ago.

Since franchisors can depend on their franchisees to undertake site selection, lease negotiation, local marketing, hiring, training, accounting, payroll, and other human resources functions (just to name a few), the franchisor's organization is typically much leaner (and often leverages off the organization that's already in place to support company operations).

When the company sat atop the world a few years ago, it raised hopes that Canada could develop a thriving tech sector, and move beyond its stubborn reliance on resources.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Bad idea, says Alter, as «most companies are cash poor and equity rich in the first few years, so you'd be using your resources unproductively.»

Perhaps this will include research and development of drugs for other diseases, albeit with fewer researchers, but to date, neither the amount the company will save nor its specific use of these freed - up resources has been detailed.

If each node grows large enough, only a few large companies will have the resources to run them.

The debate over aluminum's future in the United States comes after 20 years of China flooding the global market with the natural resource, depressing prices to a level where few U.S. companies can compete.

Few in - store bakeries at the time had time or resources to specialize in making bakery - quality sugar - free desserts, giving the company a solid business niche.

Joe Heron, owner of brandy producer Copper & Kings, agrees: «Packaging is the most important tool to engage the consumer at point of purchase for smaller companies with fewer resources than larger companies.

With 436 factories in 85 countries making products sold in 189 countries, the company aims to improve resource efficiency, quality and productivity in our operations to do more with fewer resources and less waste.

Plan Toys, ImagiPLAY, and Green Toys are just a few of the companies that offer toys made using sustainable resources, non-toxic paints or recycled materials.

With this closed - loop system, Dell uses fewer natural resources by «leveraging consumer recycling programs to recover waste electronics, and the plastics from those products are being recycled into new Dell products,» said Scott O'Connell, the company's director of environmental affairs.

It would take several hours just to interview you thoroughly enough to write a proper CV, and since few companies are willing to invest the time — the business model doesn't allow it — the result is a cookie - cutter format that professional human resources staffers recognize as soon as it touches the desk.

Planetary Resources's staff of 60 includes 50 engineers recruited from companies such as NASA, Intel, Google, and SpaceX; a few astrophysicists; and even economists.

Few companies, however, are using their resources, as Bell Laboratories once did, in pursuit of knowledge without regard to short - term payoffs, he said.

Government funding is both appropriate and essential for several reasons: the benefits will be pervasive across companies and the economy; few if any companies will have the resources to pursue this alone; and development will take many years to a few decades (beyond the planning horizon of most private organizations).

It is not rich in resources, and because it lacked a legal ventilation hood, the school had given up serving hot lunch until a few years ago, when principal Gary Phillips found a small catering company servicing similar Catholic schools north of the city.

Barnes & Noble's Nook Press was top contender for most of the last few years, but a withdrawal of resources by the parent company has caused sales drops and frustrated readers.

After a few years, I was so busy editing novels that it made sense to pool resources with another two editing friends, and together we set up our own company called Novel Gazing.

ComiXology CEO David Steinberger that one key similarity between music and comics is that just as record labels «had tons of resources but they didn't marshall them,» comic companies wouldn't pay for development outside of a few players like Marvel.

Mid-cap companies are more likely to have more limited product lines, fewer capital resources and less depth of management than larger companies.

Small - and mid-cap companies can be particularly sensitive to changing economic conditions and have fewer financial resources than large - cap companies.

Resource stocks have fallen precipitously and more than a few blue - chip companies have followed them down.

These companies generate the majority of the world's new resources (the majors are rubbish at it) so you and I had better hope that money starts making its way into this sector as you are going to have one hell of a lot of commodity inflation in a few years (actually, that is already inevitable but this will only exacerbate the issue)

And so, accordingly, it tends to attract pretty dissimilar investor constituencies, who may only focus on: i) a handful of the largest caps, regardless of valuation & exposure, ii) stocks which (may) offer cheap / alternative access to overseas growth (a surprisingly large number of Irish companies are UK / Europe / globally focused), iii) stocks offering domestic exposure (notably, economic pure - plays are actually pretty rare), iv) a listed commercial & residential property sector that's only emerged in the past couple of years, and finally (& perhaps most notoriously) v) a (junior) resource stock sector that's been decimated in the last few years.

To be fair, the TSX 60 includes energy and resources companies that didn't do very well in the past few years.

One fund refuses to buy any companies involved in the extraction of natural resources, which has been a top - performing sector over the last few years.

Employees with access to company financial data, resource planning databases, or customer databases are often only allowed to trade in company securities (or derivatives thereof) during certain «windows» a few days after the company releases its quarterly earnings reports.

Small companies are more volatile and riskier than larger companies because they have less business diversification, fewer financial resources and greater uncertainty of earnings than their large counterparts.

Pros: It's much easier conceptually to see all the money as being equal no matter where it sits, and there are lots of resources to read that use this method so you'll feel like you're in good company and won't get confused when you try to refresh your memory in a few years.

In addition to large - cap companies, the Fund may invest in small - and / or mid-cap companies, which can be particularly sensitive to changing economic conditions and have fewer financial resources or the well - established businesses of large - cap companies.

A few bad actors and many powerful opponents force businesspeople to double as citizen lobbyists, spending time, money and other resources engaging with lawmakers, the media and activists instead of running their companies.

Square Enix have been performing poorly for quite a few years now, with Final Fantasy XIV draining the company's resources, and games like Versus XIII never seeing the light of day.

I always found that Company of Heroes managed to fulfil both sides of the coin rather well, providing a stage set for large - map strategy and resource balancing, alongside detailed micromanagement and a tactical challenge that few RTS titles could hope to stand up to.

In the meantime, I'll post some links to NREL, a few technology resources, and the web sites of key solar thermal companies (just for example) so people can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

Many companies are wary to confront an uncomfortable topic — that we can't continue on the current path of unchecked consumption without draining the world's resources in just a few decades.

America is one of the few countries where an individual or company can own the resources that lie beneath the ground.

The internet is another resource for learning more, and a few seed companies are now posting seed saving info on their websites.

Philips, the large electronics company that has been at the forefront of LED technology over the past few years, has been partnering with indoor farming company Green Sense Farms on a city farming project that has demonstrated the ability for LED bulbs to replace greenhouse growing lights and typical horizontal, resource - heavy farming practices.

However, few companies have an internal resource who understands the complexities of open source software issues.