Sentences with phrase «focus point in the development»

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As you grow, however, there will be a point when the cash flow gets complicated and is often overlooked in favor of focusing on sales, business development and other tasks.

He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

These points are all, of course, interrelated: Apple's organizational structure, focus, and release - focused development cycle enable it to create highly differentiated products, even as the exact same structure, focus, and development cycle underly the company's struggles in iterative services.1 Similarly, Amazon's highly modular structure, varied businesses, and iterative approach to those businesses enable it to create services with itself as its first, best, customer, and then extend those services to developers and retailers, even as the exact same factors lead to product disasters like the Fire Phone.

As Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania, pointed out in a speech at the recent World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, held in Rome, the officials of multilateral and some national aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs» approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focDevelopment, held in Rome, the officials of multilateral and some national aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs» approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focdevelopment as the major focus for aid.

From my point of view, this more public focus on Obama and his religious practices is the least appealing development about him in the last four years.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

CGF is urging all consumer goods companies to phase out harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) focusing on four key points; the installation of new refrigeration equipment in markets where viable, engagement with stakeholders to overcome barriers in markets where installation is not currently viable, reduction of the environmental impact of existing refrigeration systems and the development of individual targets and action plans to measure the first three points.

I have no clue who may be coming in to fill Spalletti's job, but with extensions like this, signs point to a manager more focused on youth development (Eusebio Di Francesco, anyone?).

Parents often focus on what are known as developmental milestones, which represent abilities that most children tend to display by a certain point in development.

The remarks came after Wilson listed a broad three - point plan for righting the state that includes restructuring government; focusing on workforce development in a region - by - region, industry - specific way; and reforming Albany's lax ethical standards.

He however urged donor and development partners not to only focus on pointing out the weaknesses of the new nation, but rather to join hands in the collective nation building process.

«Focusing on the period from 1970 to 2008, our study shows what may be one of the steepest turning points in the long, zigzag course of China's social and value development,» Zeng and Greenfield wrote.

Its development frees scientists, who in the past had to develop their own pointing systems, to instead focus on instrument development.

For another, it's not in the nature of movies to reflect the times so quickly: it took 15 years of development and rewriting as well as the invention of new technologies to make Benjamin Button possible, and although Milk came together with remarkable speed and focus under its producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, the idea of making a biopic about Harvey Milk, who was killed in 1978, has been around for so long that at one point, Dustin Hoffman, now 71, was touted to play the role that eventually went to Sean Penn (who is 48).

That's developer Trendy Entertainment's term for waving your sword at an enemy and chipping their hit points away without feeling any particular sense of impact — that's been a focus during development, and in Dungeon Defenders 2 each swing of your sword or your staff feels like it's doing real damage.

[9] The team also focused on allowing the player to bring their own unique vision into each design, and while a budget limit had been taken into consideration at some point in the development cycle, it was decided that it would be best not to impose any external limitations on the player's design choices.

As Haskins points out, the early childhood education community has resisted a focus on academic skills in Head Start, concerned that attention to academic skills will dilute efforts to promote positive social and emotional development and that the comprehensive health services that Head Start currently provides will be abandoned.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

Making Observations, with a focus on such skills as gathering and drawing conclusions from textual evidence; noticing patterns; tracing the development of central ideas and themes; detecting shifts in voice, tone, and point of view; and drawing comparisons across texts.

The approach focuses on assessing and monitoring student growth over time and is underpinned by an understanding that students of the same age and in the same year of school can be at very different points in their learning and development.

builds on what teachers learn in The High Performance Learning - Focused Lesson professional development and the Increasing the Rigor of Learning - Focused Lessons: Higher Order Thinking, Reading and Writing professional development by providing teachers with a process for identifying points in each lesson where students struggle or need more challenge, and strategies and practices for differentiating and personalizing each struggle and challenge point to ensure all students are successful.

Parents are beginning to recognise the importance of developing a Growth Mindset in their children, to the point where some are looking for schools that explicitly focus on the development of Growth Mindsets.

Many schools have a real need at this point in time to secure high quality professional development that focusses on improving the quality of formative assessment, and the use of this assessment information to inform decision making at all levels.

That's because the end of third grade marks a critical transition point in children's learning: It is the time when children shift from learning how to read — the key focus, along with social development, of the early elementary years — to reading to learn.

The study will have a particular focus on systems» reform journeys and decision points, and what can be learned from those stories to develop a system - level school leadership development strategy, drawing out implications for policy makers in the United States.

In Turning Points 2000, Jackson and Davis (2000) recommended that professional development should focus on «curriculum, instruction, adolescent development, classroom management, assessment, service learning, interdisciplinary teaming, and parent involvement» (p. 114) to facilitate high levels of learning for students.

Ensuring a smooth ride over rough roads was a top development focus, achieved by a more robust connecting structure, extensive laser welding, reinforced body and chassis mounting points, new hot stamping and dipping techniques for the B - pillar and roof sides, and an increased amount of high - strength steel in the chassis.

In an earlier blog post we talked about the importance of developmental editing and why the focus on big - picture stuff — structure, book - spanning issues like plot or organization, character development, dialogue, and that sort of thing — needs to come first, before you spend too much time worrying about the finer points of style and wording.

In order for kinect to really have viability for hard core gaming, it needed to go Hand in Hand with a motion control method where the optical lenses of the cameras could focus and track your users movements in a game development design that allows the camera to completely focus its compute on very fine focused body locations and points of body language in actioIn order for kinect to really have viability for hard core gaming, it needed to go Hand in Hand with a motion control method where the optical lenses of the cameras could focus and track your users movements in a game development design that allows the camera to completely focus its compute on very fine focused body locations and points of body language in actioin Hand with a motion control method where the optical lenses of the cameras could focus and track your users movements in a game development design that allows the camera to completely focus its compute on very fine focused body locations and points of body language in actioin a game development design that allows the camera to completely focus its compute on very fine focused body locations and points of body language in actioin action.

One of the major updates in Disney Infinity 2.0 is the three separate character classes which creates a different game style when switching characters, a very important focus point for Disney Interactive during the development of 2.0.

They talked about the Saga game in development, more focused titles based on previous games in the series in specific points in history, that developer Jack compares to Fall of the Samurai, the expansion for Total War: Shogun 2.

With Webb himself being involved in the development work on the BAC Mono circuit - focused sports car, a seemingly proportionate amount of his time spent on pCARS was spent trying out the semi-sim game's own rendering of the Cheshire - built track day toy, pointing out to the developers where their version of the car does and doesn't mirror the real deal.

Once again, about the reason why at E3 this year we focused on the titles that will be released in the near future, as Mr. Miyamoto just said, which points we should focus on at E3 change every year depending on the development status of each product and future deployment schedule.

It has come to a point in the development of games that the increase in cost is more focused on art resources and the complexities of game production.

As Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, points out, no one knows how fast a major economy can decarbonise and policy therefore needs to focus less on targets and timetables that no one can be sure of reaching, and more on the tangible process for achieving goals such as the development of clean technologies that will be crucial in the decarbonising process.

For many of the groups working for the equal involvement of women in climate change issues, the deliberations on climate change are too narrowly focused on the politics of emissions reductions, rather than the long - term social and community initiatives that could underpin a real shift in a global consciousness or more effective practices of post-disaster rebuilding.In a statement to the U.N. General Assembly in July of this year, executive director of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), June Zeitlin, points out: «Women have always been leaders in community revitalization and natural resource management.

It takes the three main focus points of modern Formula 1 development - safety, driver engagement, and entertainment - and distills it into what Renault believes cars may look like in 10 years.

As we mentioned in the blog post for our flight on Wednesday, we are now at the point of the development cycle for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update where our focus is now on stabilization for release to the world.

«You don't become a Facebook by restricting data access to developers,» the industry veteran concluded in a statement provided to AndroidHeadlines, thus emphasizing his point about a strategy focused on both data protection and distribution being the only viable approach to future development.

While the focus of this development controversy has mainly centered on the actual block size metric in the Bitcoin protocol, Lombrozo says this misses the main point of disagreement.

As we mentioned in last week, we are now at the point of the development cycle for the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update where our focus is now on stabilization for release to the world.

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based entrepreneurial environment that leverages individual talents for group benefit Install support staff to aid in effective sales, marketing, and client service operations, delegating important tasks and assignments while providing timely follow - up to ensure task completion Address key client queries and resolve them in an expedited manner, promoting sustained revenue growth through client retention, word - of - mouth marketing, and the leveraging of cross-sales opportunities Create and implement marketing and sales strategies and promotional programs, while tracking progress versus established internal and external industry benchmarks with a focus on revenue generation, cost control, networking, and staff success Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of respective products / services and related marketplaces, including pricing and regulatory trends, customer demands, competitor strategies, and industry developments Collaborate effectively with all relevant parties, conveying information in a clear and concise manner while listening effectively to critical input, critiques, suggestions, and guidance Utilize knowledge of various technology - based applications, including ACT, Genesis, Calyx Point, Encompass, DU / LP, and Assetwise Act as a liaison between clients, vendors, sales and support staff, and other members of the executive manadevelopment functions, and managing / leveraging key business relationships Perform needs - based analyses and situational assessments for clients to position most appropriate product / service, generating increased revenue through improved close ratios as well as referral / repeat customer business Collaborate in all phases of strategic planning with senior - level management and customers, including cost budgeting, pricing strategies, vendor negotiations, revenue projections, and industry competition Provide continuous assessment of key markets and potential clients, while furnishing oversight and guidance regarding effective business acquisition strategies, prospecting techniques, client service, pricing, and market trends Identify and utilize talent among team members with focused training, targeted professional recruitment, and the promotion of a performance - based entrepreneurial environment that leverages individual talents for group benefit Install support staff to aid in effective sales, marketing, and client service operations, delegating important tasks and assignments while providing timely follow - up to ensure task completion Address key client queries and resolve them in an expedited manner, promoting sustained revenue growth through client retention, word - of - mouth marketing, and the leveraging of cross-sales opportunities Create and implement marketing and sales strategies and promotional programs, while tracking progress versus established internal and external industry benchmarks with a focus on revenue generation, cost control, networking, and staff success Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of respective products / services and related marketplaces, including pricing and regulatory trends, customer demands, competitor strategies, and industry developments Collaborate effectively with all relevant parties, conveying information in a clear and concise manner while listening effectively to critical input, critiques, suggestions, and guidance Utilize knowledge of various technology - based applications, including ACT, Genesis, Calyx Point, Encompass, DU / LP, and Assetwise Act as a liaison between clients, vendors, sales and support staff, and other members of the executive management team

series is relevant to any early childhood educator because its starting points are the principles of child development and a recognition that catering to the child?s uniqueness requires a broader focus than their role in any one setting.

Finally, the results may be relevant to psychotherapy, considering that the interconnection between representations and the perception of relational contexts is a key concept in those contexts that focus on pointing out specific non-adaptive representations and reflecting on which specific environment allowed its development.