Sentences with phrase «with operational performance»

The momentum investor is not concerned with operational performance, at least not from a pricing perspective.

Real equity returns fluctuate with operational performance of the underlying business, and the market pricing for these securities reflects this fact.

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Combined with our strong operational performance, this has left us in a good liquidity position.

Forward - looking statements may include, among others, statements concerning our projected adjusted income (loss) from operations outlook for 2018, on both a consolidated and segment basis; projected total revenue growth and global medical customer growth, each over year end 2017; projected growth beyond 2018; projected medical care and operating expense ratios and medical cost trends; our projected consolidated adjusted tax rate; future financial or operating performance, including our ability to deliver personalized and innovative solutions for our customers and clients; future growth, business strategy, strategic or operational initiatives; economic, regulatory or competitive environments, particularly with respect to the pace and extent of change in these areas; financing or capital deployment plans and amounts available for future deployment; our prospects for growth in the coming years; the proposed merger (the «Merger») with Express Scripts Holding Company («Express Scripts») and other statements regarding Cigna's future beliefs, expectations, plans, intentions, financial condition or performance.

The payment targets will be related to financial and operational measures or objectives with respect to our company (the «Corporate Performance Goals»), as well as individual performance Performance Goals»), as well as individual performance performance objectives.

Accordingly, we believe that adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our operating results, enhancing the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects, and allowing for greater transparency with respect to a key financial metric used by our management in its financial and operational decision - making.

For the transportation industry, predicting operational failures before they occur cuts down on the high costs that come with lost productivity and limited performance.

The consumer segment saw even slower growth, with operational increases of just 1.3 % as poor performance in domestic baby care products offset gains in beauty products like Neutrogena and Aveeno.

Infinit Healthcare's management provides clients with a strong combination of business consultancy, process optimization and the latest operational techniques and technology to ensure our clients derive the maximum performance from their back office functions.

Our strategy is to create partnerships with clients, rendering a strong combination of business consultancy, process optimization, and the latest operational techniques and technology to provide consistent maximum performance from the outsourced functions.

SAN FRANCISCO (September 13, 2007)-- Glass Lewis & Co., LLC, a leading independent research and proxy advisory firm, today announced the launch of the ESG Watch List Service, a tool that enables Glass Lewis» proxy voting clients to track companies with environmental, social, or governance (ESG) policies and / or practices that may create operational, performance, financial, legal, accounting or reputational risks.

Through the deployment of the proprietary Value Forward ® method and working collaboratively with executive leadership teams, we increase revenue, improve value communication, accelerate marketing operational performance and help build measurable success systems.

Attend this session to learn what Texas Tech University Hospitality Services does with the NACUFS Customer Satisfaction and Operational Performance Benchmarking Survey data to facilitate decisions and make improvements within a $ 38 million department.

• 10 % depletion growth for Kona, continued gross margin expansion, and robust EPS performance underscore record operational and financial results in 2017 • New contract brewing agreement with AB to leverage capacity and capability in CBA - owned breweries in 2018...

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

Optimising coding with vision systems and software solutions Recently drinks producers are also requesting ancillary applications and software to improve the operational performance of their production lines — especially in relation to quality control.

«As we continue to evolve globally, we're not only focused on improving our operational performance, but we're leading the way when it comes to synchronizing creative, bold experiences with an unwavering focus on culinary excellence» — Shimon Bokovza, CEO

During her tenure with Firebird, Anne has built a strong team that ensures operational clarity, financial transparency and a map for improved performance of the company's systems, financials and people.

Among the important factors that could cause Rio Tinto's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, among others, levels of actual production during any period, levels of demand and market prices, the ability to produce and transport products profitably, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates on market prices and operating costs, operational problems, political uncertainty and economic conditions in relevant areas of the world, the actions of competitors, activities by governmental authorities such as changes in taxation or regulation and such other risk factors identified in Rio Tinto's most recent Annual Report on Form 20 - F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC») or Form 6 - Ks furnished to the SEC.

(It notes that the company's operational performance «has lagged the broader online dating industry, with significant declines in subscribers and average revenue per user.»)

The application of asset management across a number of infrastructure and utility sectors has shown that substantial benefits can be obtained in terms of around 15 - 25 per cent reduction in costs concurrently with improvement in condition and performance and reduction in operational risks.

Rallyware reinvents corporate training by connecting company - specific learning activities with operational and performance data.

Anderson has nearly twenty years of strategy, leadership development, performance management, and operational redesign experience leading and consulting with organizations undergoing significant transformation efforts in schools, districts, social service agencies, and commercial organizations.

Marlena Gross - Taylor is the founder of #EduGladiators as well as a district EdLeader for Maury County Schools, Tennessee, with a proven track record of improving educational and operational performance through vision,...

Marlena Gross - Taylor is the founder of #EduGladiators as well as a district EdLeader for Maury County Schools, Tennessee, with a proven track record of improving educational and operational performance through vision, strategic planning, leadership, and team building.

She works with organizations on a variety of strategic and operational issues including strategic planning, business plan development, growth and expansion strategy, human capital and organizational design, performance improvement and sustainability, and grant development and implementation.

We're hoping to marry the keen financial / operational analyses of underwriters with the performance frameworks NACSA develops for authorizers — and we just might come up with some tools both camps can use.

Academic and operational performance expectations and measures in the charter contract that are based on a performance framework with annual performance targets.

Linda Marlena Gross - Taylor is the founder of EduGladiators and a nationally recognized education leader with a proven track record of improving educational and operational performance through vision, strategic planning, leadership, and team building.

This format aligns with the Vector Solutions mobile - first strategy, as well as its goal of providing learning access to customers at the exact moment of need, in short bites, to improve operational performance.

A quarterly meeting with each Operational Administration to go over issues of performance, rulemaking, NTSB findings, correspondence and Congressional inquiry.

(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(2) of this clause, and unless otherwise specifically provided in the contract, all operational practices of the Contractor and all workmanship, material, equipment, and articles used in the performance of work under this contract shall be in accordance with the best commercial marine practices and the rules and requirements of all appropriate regulatory bodies including, but not limited to the American Bureau of Shipping, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, in effect at the time of Contractor's submission of offer, and shall be intended and approved for marine use.

Consumers can be confident that the increased environmental impacts of manufacturing the battery electric technology is more than offset with increased environmental performance during operational life.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, including store closings, higher - than - anticipated or increasing costs, including with respect to store closings, relocation, occupancy (including in connection with lease renewals) and labor costs, the effects of competition, the risk of insufficient access to financing to implement future business initiatives, risks associated with data privacy and information security, risks associated with Barnes & Noble's supply chain, including possible delays and disruptions and increases in shipping rates, various risks associated with the digital business, including the possible loss of customers, declines in digital content sales, risks and costs associated with ongoing efforts to rationalize the digital business and the digital business not being able to perform its obligations under the Samsung commercial agreement and the consequences thereof, the risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, the performance of Barnes & Noble's initiatives including but not limited to its new store concept and e-commerce initiatives, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, potential infringement of Barnes & Noble's intellectual property by third parties or by Barnes & Noble of the intellectual property of third parties, and other factors, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2016, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Using NCR / ALOHA can put your PROFIT GROWTH on a FAST TRACK through its ALOHA POS and its Hosted Solution tools that increase your operational efficiency, build sales and customer traffic, provide you with necessary performance measurement tools all which work in conjunction to increase your PROFITS AND your RETURN ON YOUR INVESTMENT.

With that being said, you can still expect our honest thoughts and impressions of the game's single player offerings, gameplay, performance, and any other online functionality that may be operational -LRB-

Working in over 50 languages, AlixPartners supports organisations in Britain and around the world in quickly improving operational and financial performance with sustainable results.

S&P says future carbon constraints need to be factored into credit assessments for the oil sector — along with uncertain future oil prices and rising operational costs — and financial models that rely on past financial performance are no longer adequate.

Dr. Geyer also combines these approaches with research methods from operations management and other fields in order to study the relationship between environmental performance, economic viability, and technical and operational feasibility of pollution prevention strategies.

CEOs are typically let go due to misalignment with the board or shareholders on strategic or operational matters, poor financial performance, power struggles, disagreements on successors and the like where cause is not alleged.

Although PepsiCo's experience represents an extreme case of change, even modest changes — organizational, operational or technology related — can lead to inefficiency and the inability to extract the kind of data - driven insights required to align a law department's performance with corporate objectives.

«CounselLink has been aggressive and ambitious in recent years to deliver a standout roadmap of innovation in technology and operational performance, with a healthy dose of strong personal interaction and client engagement.»

This, coupled with the SRA's commitment to continuously improve their operational performance, created a need for a modern and efficient reprographics and mail function to deliver a high - quality service to their employees.

Laura has held several senior executive positions with a focus on operational performance and improvement.

The interviews with in - house counsel and businesspeople that purchase legal services broadly break down into three parts: the operational issues and challenges they face; the nature of their relationships with external counsel, based on 16 performance indicators; and an analysis of the market.

Since the beginning of 2012, Jerry has applied Operational Excellence Principles (Strategy Deployment, Process Excellence, Performance Management and High Performance Work Teams) to the practice of law, primarily for organizations with in - house counsel.

It might relate to the «asset rating» evidenced by an Energy Performance Certificate or to the «operational efficiency» assessed by comparing an assumed level of consumption with actual usage.

The Research Triangle Area Chapter of the ACC presents a session on how law departments can optimize operational performance by improving productivity and efficiency, controlling spend, maximizing resource allocation, making informed decisions faster, and increasing collaboration with outside counsel.