This helps the organization allocate resources more efficiently, and also helps fill talent gaps more quickly.

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Obviously, intelligent consumers allocate their resources efficiently and effectively, while emotional shoppers waste their resources.

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But even by then, Mr Koizumi expects, he will have set the agenda: he insists that potential candidates should be judged by their commitment to reforms that allocate economic resources more efficiently in Japan.

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Despite continued sluggishness in major markets and a rise in the cost of raw materials, the company will continue to efficiently allocate resources and develop differentiated products such as the Blast Chiller refrigerator.

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The promise was clear: if you simply start measuring and tracking everything, from minutely segmented sales and resource usage metrics to every conceivable macroeconomic variable of remote interest, we will be able to identify all manner of relationships, correlations and insights, the net result of which will be the capacity to much more effectively and efficiently allocate resources to take advantage of opportunity and drive results.

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