Sentences with phrase «which drives performance»

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Adding data - driven performance reports allows employers to see which employees are exceeding expectations and recognize what other talents they can offer the company.

The 2016 Global Innovation Index, which is an annual ranking of the innovation capabilities and performance of economies around the world, focuses on national policies, but it's individual leaders who can make a difference by driving innovation within organizations and creating a conducive environment for innovation to thrive.

A number of segments drove this performance, with third - party seller services racking up $ 9.3 billion, up 39 % YoY, AWS drawing $ 5.4 billion, jumping 49 % YoY, and its physical stores, which include Whole Foods locations, bringing in $ 4.3 billion.

«Marcelo has done a remarkable job of turning around the Sprint brand and business, driving enhanced network performance, strong subscriber growth and significant cost reductions leading to the best financial results in Sprint's history,» said Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. «Marcelo has also positioned Sprint as a leader in the race to 5G, which promises to revolutionize the communications industry.

National hotel performance has been strong over the past several years, driven by solid leisure and individual «transient» business demand, which has risen nearly 40 % since 2007.

The Barangaroo project has been a drawn - out planning and approval process for Crown, which has contributed to a delay of about 18 months to the development Mr Packer has called his biggest priority and one he hopes will improve the performance of its Australian business as part of a unique three - way split of Crown designed to drive stronger shareholder returns.

This is driven by multiple strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover.

Event - driven funds, which invest in companies going through major events, such as restructurings, debt exchanges and mergers and acquisitions, experienced modest 2017 performance.

This is driven by a few notable strengths, which we believe should have a greater impact than any weaknesses, and should give investors a better performance opportunity than most stocks we cover.

Historically, foreign direct investment (FDI) performance is driven by multiple factors, only some which can be quantified.

This same mix of performance - based and time - based awards has been granted by the Committee for the past several years and reflects HP's primary emphasis on performance driven compensation, with the time - based awards providing a measure of retention value, which is also an important component of the overall executive compensation arrangement.

«Cigna's strong first quarter performance was driven by the continued, effective execution of our proven growth strategy, which we expect to further accelerate through our pending combination with Express Scripts,» said David M. Cordani, President and Chief Executive Officer.

For example, Morgan Stanley's (MS) wealth management division achieved record performance and propelled the stock to a $ 48 billion gain in market cap this year, which was driven, in part, by heavy investment in technology.

This argument, which seems more ideological than empirical, is based on standard trade theory in which there is an implicit assumption that any intervention will drive trade performance away from its optimum, so that the United States always gains from the further opening up of its own market, even if trade partners don't reciprocate.

The fatal crash, which occurred in Florida on May 7, will see the NHTSA examine the design and the performance of the Autopilot system of Tesla Motors, which has previously been criticized by self - driving car technology experts as launched too early.

This includes well - established equity hedge fund managers in the Australian market and a number of emerging managers, which are both performance driven and capacity constrained.

We are the first and currently only company to commercially produce a federally - compliant highway - capable electric vehicle, the Tesla Roadster, which combines a market - leading range on a single charge with attractive design, driving performance and zero tailpipe emissions.

He brings a broad range of customer service leadership skills and experience to the company, spanning performance management, employee and leadership development, organizational design, and strategy, all of which align to a focus on driving an incredible customer experience.

«Cigna's strong first quarter performance was driven by the continued, effective execution of our proven growth strategy, which we expect to further accelerate through our pending combination with Express Scripts,» Cigna CEO David Cordani said Thursday in a release announcing the quarter's financial results.

They are all backed by the physical metal, which makes it easy for retail investors to understand what is driving the performance of the fund.

Many times, investors drive up those multiples much faster than the earnings and revenues actually increase, which means that a company whose earnings are growing at 15 % a year can have stock price gains of multiples of that within a year, boosting the investor's short - term performance.

And such a large under performance seemed to better support my contention that emotions drive investing for most people, which results in substantial investing mistakes.

The performance of the business is also a main factor, which will drive the value of the stock either...

«We are delighted that Coca - Cola has won this award, which stands as testimony to their vision and their commitment to drive the sustainability and performance of their packaging through the use of renewable materials,» said Charles Brand, Vice President Marketing & Product Management at Tetra Pak.

Driven by the results of its strategic plan «Performance with Meaning» over four years, which has allowed it to double its activity and become the no. 1 French cooperative wine group, Val d'Orbieu - Uccoar is embarking on a new phase in its development.

This performance was fuelled by strong marketing campaigns which helped drive growth in key markets such as the US and South Africa.

But the profit margins in the US are a long way off the stellar performance of Asia, which is driven by booming sales to China.

These excellent results were driven by solid performance for every brand in our portfolio, which resulted in Constellation being the No. 1 growth contributor to the U.S. beer industry for the year.»

In contrast to your board of directors (the «Board»), which has taken — and will continue to take — substantial steps to further drive high performance and long - term profitable growth at your Company, this dissident group has offered no specific plan to enhance shareholder value and is proposing to install as CEO a candidate with no experience managing a public company and no C - suite experience at any company.

With all the excitement of such a solid performance and looking to a better future, some seem to forget the ARSENAL of two months ago, back then SANCHEZ literally took the team on his shoulders with very little or support from the other players... back then it was a ONE man team, for sure we would not be in the top 5 if it wasn't for his drive which he could not find from no one else in the Club.

Most likely the current mess is a combination of Trae's statistical success and the media (especially e $ pn) never passing up the chance to promote this unprecedented performance and thus drive up their ratings, which is ultimately the extent of their concern.

«If the team performance is good and we're much more organised than our opponents, then it's easier to play in the midfield,» he explained after Wednesday's win over the Red Devils, in which he helped to stifle United's attempts to attack and drove us forward in the other direction.

Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick has said that the confidence is high among the players in Jose Mourinho's side, which is driving up the performance levels in difficult matches such as the one against West Ham on Monday.

Daniel had to leave the house at 6.30 am this morning as the theatre group had a performance in Paphos which is about an hour and a half's drive away.

This is in addition to the drive for internally generated revenues the performance of which is very encouraging,» the statement added.

In a recent briefing paper on breaks and discontinuities in official data series in the UK, two of us [Dixon and Hood] highlighted the tension between the demand for quantitative evidence to drive performance improvement and the tendency to systematically destroy the very evidence by which performance can be evaluated.

According to a statement by Media Relations Officer of the institution, Abiodun Comer, the impressive performance, which reflects the strong momentum of UBA's business and its increasing share of customers» wallet, was driven by the 44.3 per cent and 16.0 per cent growth in interest income and non-funded income respectively.

He held that the company's performance this year was impacted by two major factors of tough economic challenges around consumer spending, which according to him driving consumer preferences towards value brands across the sector as well as the effects of FX policy and Naira devaluation.

We also liked the fast solid state drive, the sharp FHD IPS wide - angle display, and the 6 - cell battery which delivered over six hours of performance.

The extent to which wavefront aberrations upstream of the coronagraph are corrected and calibrated drives coronagraphic performance.

Where stress decreases sexual desire and performance, meditation assists the brain in producing bliss chemicals dopamine and serotonin, which enhance the intensity of orgasm and increase overall sex drive.

It increases * the sexual drive and libido, which increase * your performance during sexual intercourse.

Andrews is joint owner of Data IQ, which was formed in 1996 and specialises in «data governance, research, audit and advisory services and technologies to firstly de-risk data assets and once protected help our clients use their data to drive business performance.»

Andrews is the joint owner of Data IQ, which was formed in 1996 and specialises in «data governance, research, audit and advisory services and technologies to firstly de-risk data assets and once protected help our clients use their data to drive business performance.»

Once the fear has passed, just in time for nap, visual and musical style are sometimes played in an immersive fashion by highlights in a directorial performance by Nicolas Winding Refn that bring some life to the film, though not as much as John Turturro's inspired lead performance, which does about as much as anything in bring the final product to the brink of decency, which is ultimately defied by the serious underdevelopment, overambition, monotonously unfocused dragging and near - punishingly dull atmospheric dryness that back a questionable drawn non-plot concept, and drive «Fear X» into mediocrity, in spite of highlights than can't quite obscure the many shortcomings.

Gravity becomes a character study driven by a riveting central performance and a radical thrill ride delivered with near real - time urgency which thrusts you through its implausibilities.

The latter made his name as a filmmaker with the 2009 country musician drama Crazy Heart (which landed Jeff Bridges his Academy Award), and further established himself as a storyteller interested in making mood / performance - driven fare with the dramatic thriller Out of the Furnace and Whitey Bulger biopic Black Mass..

In June 1996, the LAPD arrested the actor (who had already spent time in three rehabilitation facilities between 1987 and 1996) on counts including drug use, driving under the influence, possession of a concealed weapon, and possession of illegal substances, a development which struck many as ironic, given his star - making performance years prior in Less than Zero.

Chenoweth, on the other hand, is much more naked in her ego - driven ambitions than Carole Lombard in the film or even Madeline Kahn in the original Broadway production of this musical, in which Kevin Kline gave the first of his many Errol Flynn impersonations (and Kahn got fired for missing too many performances).