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Organizations that encourage innovative thinking around technology approaches, then stay out of the way when employees move these ideas forward, will see greater cost savings, and ultimately, competitive advantage.
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Ocwen has long emphasized its cost advantages and low operating expenses as a competitive advantage, with at least three-quarters of its 5, 000 employees based in India and Uruguay, where it says its per-employee costs are one-eighth of those of a U.S. worker.
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You do need to worry about some things that are tailor-made and that are sources of competitive advantage, but anything that is a cost item that can be turned into the cloud gives you more money to be innovative to do new things.
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Higher imports are a manifestation that another country has the ability to produce goods we desire at a competitive advantage, i.e. a lower cost.
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First, most cost cutting is easily matched by competitors, thus offering little or no competitive advantage.
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Such efforts notwithstanding, Josef Schmidhuber, an agronomist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, argues that Brazil's competitive advantage lies in churning out huge quantities of low-cost bulk commodities.
ECONOMIST: Brazil