Sentences with phrase «of system plans»

Boards operating in this mode hold the superintendent responsible for implementation of system plans but avoid direct involvement in managing the school system.

As green coffee buyers we have a responsibility to push importers, cooperatives or producers towards truly sustainable organic production, not just the execution of a system plan that is inspected on an annual basis.

At VCE, we strive to push the envelope and remain at the forefront of system planning, optimization, and modeling to help answer some of the most critical science and policy questions in the field.

Engineering economics of system planning for an integrated grid is a highly complex process involving modelling of load shapes, capacity factors, fuel risks (i.e., diversified fuel mix), inter-connections, reliability, etc..

Some firms administrators have spoken with include the TriData division of System Planning Corp., which did a report commissioned by the city of Aurora following the 1999 Columbine shootings in Colorado, and former FBI Director Louis Freeh, who has a consulting company and contacted the county after Udine mentioned him at a commission meeting.

Training: 2011: SYS 101 Fundamentals of Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering (35 CLPs); SYS 202 Intermediate Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering (30 CLPs); CLM 003 Overview of Acquisition Ethics (2 CLPs); CLM 039 Foundations of Government Property (1.5 CLPs); CLM 047 Fiscal and Physical Accountability and Management of DoD Equipment (2 CLPs) 2010: Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement (24 CPEs); From Tactical to Strategic Thinking (24 CPEs); Critical Thinking for Problem Solving (24 CPEs) 2009: The Legislative Process: Working with Congress (8 CPEs); Appropriations Law in the Defense Environment (16 CPEs); Federal Financial Management Overview (24 CPEs); 2009 Business Manager's Conference (16 hrs); Leading People Senior Executive Seminar (24 CPEs)

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• Carlyle Group is planning a sale of ADT Caps, a South Korea - based security systems company, according to Reuters.

That would be a flat tax, the type of plan favored by Sen. Ted Cruz, but it isn't how our current progressive system operates.

McCain joined two other Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who voted against the bill and quashed Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan to upend the US healthcare system after 20 hours of debate.

So what psychologists recommend is underneath the stretch goal, you have a system to force you to break some component of it into a plan — to start thinking about the goal in a methodological way.

To counter the fall in downloads, Apple plans to bundle the music streaming service it acquired as part of the $ 3 billion Beats Electronics deal earlier this year into its iOS operating system, according to a report in the Financial Times.

Use different planning systems to help organize and work out the details of your plan.

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

• Casa Systems, an Andover, Mass. - based software - maker for cable providers, said it plans to raise $ 134.4 million in an IPO of 8.4 million shares priced between $ 15 to $ 17 a share.

• Pager, a New York - based mobile - first patient engagement and care navigation platform for large health plans and health systems, raised funding of an undisclosed amount.

«A business plan is important because it communicates to everyone involved in the organization what the goals are, and how management plans to get there,» says Drew Starbird, a professor of operations management and information systems at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business.

As a result, training of personnel on these office automation systems has become an essential part of many companies» planning.

Office automation systems are also often used to track both short - term and long - term data in the realms of financial plans, workforce allocation plans, marketing expenditures, inventory purchases, and other aspects of business.

The Reward Plan Advantage, by Jerry McAdams (Jossey - Bass, 800-956-7739, 1996, $ 30.95), is particularly comprehensive and, for those interested, offers a historical perspective of pay - for - performance systems.

Furthermore, the government said it wants to attract investments for the building of 10,000 kilometres of rail systems, and it plans to double the capacity of its freight rail networks.

Now, it's selling investors on the idea of a futuristic blockchain - based messaging system that, if all goes as planned, will be up and running by 2021 and create a «VISA / Mastercard alternative for the new decentralized economy,» according to a primer published online.

A Chinese - led consortium looks poised to win a $ 3.75 billion contract to build a high - speed train system, sources with knowledge of the plan say.

And one way they plan to prevent data loss of this kind going forward is to transition the affected server into a cloud - based system.

Today, Heins outlined a three - phase plan for BlackBerry's future, the first of which happened earlier this year with the debut of the new BB10 mobile operating system and new phones.

Jerry McAdams, author of The Reward Plan Advantage, suggests that you focus as much on explaining your incentive - pay system as you do on designing it.

From enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to apps to social media, software drove most of the last decade's disruptive innovations.

Yves Robins, a senior vice president with Dassault, the French aircraft - maker, said the Conservative government's recent overhaul of the military procurement system means federal officials would be hard - pressed to explain a return to the F - 35 sole - source plan.

Financial institutions including the Royal Bank of Scotland and insurance giant Standard Life have announced plans to transfer some operations south of the border to ensure they remain part of British tax and currency systems.

With its latest raise, what3words plans to put the funds to use for further global expansion, to launch a new voice recognition product, develop its unique address system in several Asian languages, and support the growth of its team.

Providers, hospitals and health systems can personalize and track treatment plans to better fit the needs of individual patients, and patients can personalize their exercise regimens, diets and health goals.

Within the next year, he plans to launch a line of name - brand wine cellars, and a software system that will help restaurants keep track of their wine.

About a fourth of Sweetgreen's transactions are already made through the chain's app, and the company plans to roll out a new mobile - optimized online ordering system at all locations by the end of the year.

Elon Musk released plans for his Hyperloop high - speed transit system on Monday, following days of speculation on what it was and how it would work.

When combined with the Company's existing 10,000 barrel per day agreement for in - field gathering with Oryx Midstream Services and planned investment of approximately $ 20 million in its own oil gathering system in 2018, PDC believes this agreement ensures its ability to successfully produce and deliver volumes in accordance with its current development plan.

Because of its ongoing supervisory relationships with the banks that provided settlement services to Drexel's subsidiaries and its knowledge of the payment and settlement system's infrastructure, the Federal Reserve had the access, contacts, and in - depth knowledge that enabled it to obtain the information it needed to evaluate this complex problem and formulate a plan to address it.»

Additionally, Rolls - Royce harnesses the IoT with their Engine Health Management system, a system of sensors and powerful analytics that identifies issues and plans maintenance before they become issues.

«They have totally improper storage of materials, completely inadequate electrical systems that provide an ignition source, and absolutely inadequate emergency response plans,» he says.

«The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation — each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.»

For now, Adaptive Phage Therapeutics plans to use the AI system at its Maryland office to determine the best course of treatment for a patient, choose the right phage from its collection, and send the phage to the hospital.

Morrow has a fork, too, but quickly forgets the cupcakes in front of him; he's preoccupied with explaining the new systems he needs to implement, his expansion plans, and his always - present question, «How do we make this faster?»

Thanks to booking systems that still largely relied on printed schedules and paper tickets — and no knowledge of the local area — the gang was forced to rent a car, ruining their plans to make the trip via ride sharing.

Sappington plans multiple pilot tests to collect customer feedback, work out any kinks and streamline the integration with the company's existing technology systems before rolling out the finished app in nearly all 14,000 U.S. restaurants and some 6,000 others in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia and China, by the end of this year.

A transportation system would connect the city of Pune with the planned new airport in Mumbai in 25 minutes.

Meantime, as the IMF continues its call for an overhaul of the global monetary system, Strauss - Kahn remains defiantly ambiguous about his plans for the future.

Amazon plans to use the year to seek a «simple, nationwide system of state and local sales tax collection.»

I've already mentioned some of the things that you need to plan for, such as global expansion and what systems you need to integrate with, but you should also think about whether you will be supporting multiple brands and products over time and whether your customer support solution can scale as you grow.

Fortune spoke with 25 - year pharmaceutical vet Ramona Sequeira, president of Takeda's U.S. business unit since 2015, on the challenges of adapting an international pharma company to the U.S. healthcare and reimbursement system and the firm's America - centric business plans.

Rather than asking patients to blindly provide doctors and the health system a bunch of data that is then used to deduce their needs, patients and providers could work together to create an action plan.

But in sharing detailed images of giant rockets, spaceships, fuel pods, and other crucial components of his Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS), Musk left out some important stuff, including where he plans to fit 100 to 200 passengers on each trip to the red planet.

«Planning for the pain we'd create from more scale, building the right systems and processes in advance of scale... sometimes we didn't give ourselves enough margin of error for, say, product delivery.