Big phone companies offer cost-management services, but only for their larger customers and only for their own services.
This deal still fell short of the cost-savings that the management wanted and the banks had rubber-stamped.
"You are buying the low-cost producer with best-in-class management, " says Aslam.
The CSB blamed lax safety culture at the firm as well as cost-cutting, bad management culture and worker fatigue.
Many utilities lack the depth of data needed to implement more cost-effective asset-management systems like condition-based monitoring and maintenance methods, which utilities in Europe and Asia are adopting to enhance the efficient use of capital and reduce operations and maintenance costs.
An expert witness testifying on behalf of the plaintiffs - the US Department of Justice and the US states affected by the spill - countered that the disaster was a direct result of poor management and heavy cost-cutting at BP.
Yet net earnings grew by 22% as a result of cost-cutting and adept financial management.
Despite this fall in sales, the company said more store space, cost-cutting and better stock management had enabled it to boost its profits.
SRA's criticisms of lax management of cost-plus maintenance contracts.
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At a time when cost-cutting pressure has pitted management against labor in newsrooms everywhere, Graham is regarded by his employees as a benevolent figure, a throwback to an earlier era of corporate paternalism.
Rowe Price Group (nasdaq: TROW - news - people ), the cost has been split 50-50 between the fund management company and investors, for at least two decades.
While the near-term outlook for semiconductor equipment demand has softened, we are committed to achieving the appropriate balance between cost management and continued investment in next-generation solutions for our customers.
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There may be plenty of reasons why teams and leagues have trouble with cost control, though weak-kneed management that tends to buckle under these kinds of ultimatums are certainly a big one.
Mr Summers wants the Fund to focus on short-term crisis management, and to avoid being a low-cost source of money for countries with ready access to private capital.
Thus encrypted drive key management can be offered as an on-line service, eliminated the cost and complexity of implementing key management for laptops and other storage devices.
Betterment uses low-cost exchange-traded funds from iShares and Vanguard Group, and takes a management fee of 0.15% to 0.35% on top of underlying fund fees.
Rather, take an aggressive stance on liability--on what you're responsible for and how you can control it--and the effect on cost management will be tremendous.
Never before in the short history of pension asset management have such high-cost, high-risk investment products proliferated pensions.
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Most of its growth since then, says Steve Wharton of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, has come from cost-containment lay-offs, trimming delinquencies and getting rid of bad loans rather than top-line growth.
This may mean that you use low-cost Web-based services to provide order taking, accounting, e-mail services, database management, or a hundred other functions that are central to the operation of your business.
"The only reason we survived was that our management style was fundamentally low-cost, " says Motsepe.
But he got zero in four areas -- return on equity, cost efficiency, brand management and compliance.
The real capacity-cost solution lies in using more sophisticated traffic management and pricing concepts than the data cap.
Rowe Price Group, the cost has been split 50-50 between the fund management company and investors, for at least two decades.
Mr. Lampert led the charge for cost reductions, and his management team became machete-wielding slashers.
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This business will never be low-cost, and in past centuries the Windsor top management enjoyed extravagant perks.
If Chrysler stages a miraculous recovery with its help, Mr Marchionne would have pulled off something similar to Carlos Ghosn's Renault-Nissan alliance at almost no cost other than diverted management time.
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When integrated into modern disaster risk management schemes, traditional management techniques have proven to be efficient and cost-effective tools to mitigate environmental risks and reduce vulnerability.
In one analysis by the Office of Management and Budget, of the 30 least cost-effective regulations throughout the government, the EPA had imposed no fewer than 17.
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Netflix : As mentioned in our previous response, management believes that in a largely fixed-cost streaming world with ease of cancellation and subsequent rejoin, net additions provides the most meaningful insight into our business performance and consumer acceptance of our service.
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